Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Wednesday that it will spend an additional 300 billion won on expanding its flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) production capacity.This brings the total tally for the company’s spending on FC-BGA since December to 1.9 trillion won.The additional 300 billion won will

Samsung Electro-Mechanics will go into trial production for server flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) during the third quarter, TheElec has learned.The packages will be made at its Busan facility and are for a major global customer, sources said.The South Korean component maker had so far manufactur

Samsung manufactured around 12 million units of smartphones during the month of May this year.This was 20% less than a year ago, while accumulated production volume for the first four months of the year was also lower than a year ago, sources said.This dip, if it continues throughout the year, could

The first quarter earnings of suppliers to Samsung recovered thanks to the launch of Galaxy S22 smartphones, their earnings report showed.The combined revenue of 22 suppliers of components to the tech giant increased 28% this year compared to 2021 to 3 trillion won.Their combined operating profit ju

Samsung has begun production of key components it will use on its upcoming foldable phones, TheElec has learned.The company has placed orders enough to manufacture a total of mid- to late-10 million units for Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Galaxy Z Fold 4, sources said.The assembly of the complete production w

Murata Manufacturing and Taiyo Yuden expect revenue from multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) to grow by over 10% this year.The Japanese companies said revenues from this fiscal year __ from April 2022 to March 2023 __ are expected to increase by 11% and 14%, respectively, this year.Meanwhile, comp

LG Display said on Thursday that it saw a significant year-on-year profit drop during the first quarter due to lowered panel shipment and price drops.The company said it recorded 6.47 trillion won in revenue and 38.3 billion won in operating income, a drop of 6% and 93%, respectively.The company sai

South Korean companies Kolon Industries and SKC will be supplying polyimide (PI) films to Taiwan’s Asus for the latter’s foldable notebook, TheElec has learned.The films will be used as cover windows __ protective films __ for the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED, which was unveiled earlier this year by the PC

Coasia Optics will be supplying lens modules to Samsung for use on the Galaxy S smartphone series, TheElec has learned.The lens modules will be used for the front cameras on Galaxy S smartphones series, starting with the recently launched Galaxy S22 series, sources said. Coasia Optics’ affiliate Coa

SK IE Technology will be supplying the transparent polyimide film, which is used as the cover windows of screens, on Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) foldable notebook.The company will be the exclusive supplier of the films and had won the order by offering them at half the price of rival bids, sources said.S

Apple is likely to use its long-time camera module supplier LG Innotek and parts maker Jahwa Electronics for the procurement of folded zoom camera modules.Earlier this week, South Korean camera module parts maker Jahwa Electronics announced that it will spend 191 billion won on a new optical image s

Jahwa Electronics said on Wednesday that it plans to spend 191 billion won on building facilities to produce new models.The company currently supplies optical image stabilization (OIS) actuators to Samsung for the Galaxy S22 series smartphones.The size of the spending plan, which will last until Mar

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Tuesday that it has developed 13 new multi-layer ceramic capacitors that can withstand 150 Celsius heat.The MLCCs are designed for automotive applications and will be supplied to auto-parts makers, the company said. They range in size from 3225 (3.2x2.5mm) to 1608.C

Printed circuit board (PCB) maker Isu Petasys said on Friday that it will be spending 54 billion won to expand its network PCB production capacity.The company will be building a fourth factory at its plant in Daegu, which will be manufacturing multi-layer boards (MLB) like the other three factories

Haesung Optics will be supplying a component to Samsung Electronics needed to make the optical image stabilization (OIS) actuator used smartphone camera modules, TheElec has learned. The component maker will be supplying a component called sub, which will be provided to another camera module supplie

Samsung is expected to continue procuring most of the hinges it will use for its upcoming foldable phones from South Korean vendor KH Vatec, TheElec has learned.The hinges are used to connect either side of the folding display panels. It also protects them from external shock.KH Vatec had been the e

South Korea’s printed circuit board (PCB) market is expected to grow 7% this year from 2021 led by high demand for chip boards, according to the Korea Printed Circuit Association (KPCA).The local PCB market is expected to be worth 16.255 trillion won, the association said.Revenue from chip board wil

Printed circuit board (PCB) maker BH said on Monday that it will acquire LG Electronics’ in-car handset wireless charging business unit.BH will be forming a new subsidiary called BH EVS that will acquire all sales rights from the business unit for 136.7 billion won. The acquisition will be completed

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Monday that it will spend 300 billion won to expand its flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) factory at Busan.The new spending plan comes atop the 1.3 trillion won investment the company announced earlier in December to build an FC-BGA facility at its plant in Vietnam

Samsung Electro-Mechanics was considering expanding its production capacity for flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA), its CEO said on Wednesday.Company CEO Chang Duck-hyun said during Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ annual shareholders’ meeting that the company was in talks with an unspecified customer to