South Korean chip assembly and test firm LB Semicon is aiming to reduce its reliance on display driver IC (DDI) for growth.LB Semicon vice president Kim Jeong-kyu told TheElec that last year was a time of reflection on what business areas it has invested in to plan where it wants to invest in the fu

Universal Display Corporation’s (UDC) plan to commercially launch a phosphorescent blue emitter material for OLED panels by the end of this year seems up in the air.Sources based in South Korea told TheElec that the emitter’s performance is still unstable and when and on what display panel they will

“That promise has been kept,” Li Mei, the chairperson of Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission, told the parliament in December of last year.They were responding to a question on whether US chip giant Qualcomm kept its promise to invest $700 million in the country.The company, known for its Snapdragon proc

Fab equipment maker Tokyo Electron’s cryo etching equipment is using hydrogen fluoride (HF).Etching is done to NAND to form the channel holes previously used carbon fluoride (CF).But with ultra-low temperature etching required for advanced NANDs (Gen 10 and up), the use of CF is expected to dramatic

LG Display has diversified its supply line for display driver ICs (DDI) it uses in OLED panels for customer Apple.Taiwan’s Novatek will supply the chips for the first time this year along with existing supplier LX Semicon, for OLED panels to go on iPhone 16.LG Display’s move is likely aimed at contr

Seojin System is supplying metal molds for car body die-casting to a global auto giant, the company’s CEO told TheElec. This customer, which ranks within the top five in terms of revenue among automakers, will use it for its electric vehicles.Seojin System is also building a large die-casting factor

TEMC and Matheson Gas Products Korea are in the middle of a legal dispute over alleged trade secret theft that could have huge consequences for their respective bottom lines.Late last year, South Korean prosecutors indicted executives of TEMC over allegedly leaking trade secrets held by Metheson.The

Fab equipment maker APTC is planning to name an ex-SK Hynix executive as an inside director.Jong-Pil Im, the former head of procurement at SK Hynix, will be named as an inside director while the company will also change its name to VM, the company said in a letter to shareholders.Im started his care

Chinese display giant BOE is planning to hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Gen 8 OLED production line, B16, on March 27th, TheElec has learned.The company has sent invitations to both Canon Tokki and Sunic System, which make deposition equipment, for the event, sources said.This likely mean

SK Hynix saw a surge in customer deposits during the fourth quarter last year, the memory chip giant’s regulatory filings showed.The company said it received 57.5 billion won in advanced payment and 1.5855 trillion won in customer liabilities, or customer deposits where an entity receives advanced p

Samsung has recovered the operation rate of its fab in Xian, China to the 70% range, TheElec has learned.The fab is the South Korean tech giant’s only plant aboard that manufactures memory chips and accounts for 40% of its total NAND output.The operation rate of the fab at one time fell to 20% to 30

Samsung Display said on Sunday that it has begun installation of equipment in its latest Gen 8.6 OLED production line to be set up at its Asan plant in South Korea.The new A6 line will be built by converting its existing L8 line, which manufactured liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, and start prod

South Korea will be able to retake its position as the largest display panel producer from China by 2027, Samsung Display’s CEO said on Thursday.Samsung Display CEO Choi Joo-sun told reporters at the sidelines of the Korea Display Industry Association’s (KDIA) first board meeting for this year, wher

Sound-tracing chip company Exarion said on Thursday that it has signed a multi-project wafer service contract with Asicland, a design house partner of TSMC, for the production of a 12-nanometer (nm) prototype.Exarion’s sound-tracing chip will be made using the Taiwanese chip foundry’s 12nm process a

Samsung is planning to use OLED panels from both Samsung Display and LG Display for its main OLED TV series S90D launching this year, TheElec has learned.Out of its three most popular OLED TV series S95D, S90D, and S85D, S90D accounts for the most volume.Samsung Display has been supplying its quantu

Hanwha Precision Machinery was developing a new thermal atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment used in wafer fabrication that can deposit molybdenum, TheElec has learned.Molybdenum, compared to tungsten, has a lower resistivity and doesn’t leave fluoride residue after it is deposited.This has made

Samsung SDI has finalized its plan to build a third battery factory in Hungary, TheElec has learned.The company is expected to spend over 6 trillion won in expanding its overall facilities this year __ over 1 trillion won of that will go into building the third factory, sources said.Samsung SDI is e

Samsung was considering applying molded underfill (MUF) in its next-generation DRAM, TheElec has learned.The tech giant used thermal compression non-conductive film (TC NCF) in its existing registered dual in-line memory module (RDIMM).But Samsung recently tested a mass reflow (MR) MUF process to 3-

LG Chem is planning to start the operation of one of its key subsidiaries for battery materials one month earlier than planned, TheElec has learned.The precursor factory being built by Korea Precursor Corporation (KPC), the joint venture between LG Chem and Korea Zinc’s subsidiary Kemco, is expected

Samsung said on Tuesday that it will optimize Arm’s SoC IPs to its gate-all-around (GAA) chip process node.Their collaboration will make the GAA process accessible to fabless customers, saving them time and money, the South Korean tech giant said.Optimization of Cortex-X, Arm’s high-end chip archite