Fab equipment maker APTC said on Wednesday that it has found that its shareholder list has been leaked by a securities firm.APTC, also known as Adaptive Plasma, said its shareholder list, shareholder addresses, how many shares they own, their phone numbers and nationality as of March 31 2022 was lea

Display production equipment maker Sunic System said on Tuesday that it will be supplying its deposition machine for OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) to Chinese display panel maker SeeYa.The deal is worth 32.2 billion won and the contract will last until June of 2024.OLEDoS is a microdisplay that is touted

Posco said on Wednesday that it will spend 1.5 trillion won with China’s CNGR to build nickel and precursor factories in Pohang, South Korea.Posco and CNGR will own 60% and 40% of the stock, respectively, of the nickel processing factory that will produce nickel sulfate.For the precursor factory, Po

Accelerator RedElec, which specializes in semiconductors, batteries, and displays, said on Thursday that it has formed its first venture investment association worth 2.5 billion won.The association, called RedElec Battery First Investment Association, will become the initial investor of promising st

China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies and other DRAM companies in Greater China are expected to see exponential growth in the coming years despite US sanctions against China, a South Korean professor said.This growth will be substantial enough to threaten the three-way dominance of the DRAM industry

LG Display is planning to develop hybrid OLED panel to supply to automobile customers, TheElec has learned.Hybrid OLED panels uses glass substrates and thin-film encapsulation (TFE), technologies that were used mutually exclusively for rigid OLED panels and flexible OLED panels, respectively, in the

Posco Holdings said on Tuesday that it will begin producing lithium hydroxide in South Korea.The new factory will use lithium carbonate extracted from brine in Argentina to produce the material, which is used to make electric vehicle batteries.The factory will be built at Posco’s plant at Youlchon a

Inkjet printing solution firm Enjet’s earnings this year will again be determined by Samsung and Samsung Display.Enjet, which listed on Kosdaq last year, is aiming for an annual revenue of 44.8 billion won and an operating profit of 18.2 billion won, sources said.These goals are higher by 2 times an

Eaton Korea is aiming to expand its supply of electric solutions for data centers in South Korea, its country manager for the country told TheElec.The South Korean data center market is growing quickly from various trends such as AI, Eaton Korea President Oh Seung-hwan said.As data centers need unin

Aluminum parts maker Almac said on Tuesday it has 1.5 trillion won worth of remaining orders.The orders from automobile and battery companies are enough to provide Almac with revenues up to 2030, Almac Executive Director Junpyo Park told a press conference as the company prepares to list on the Sout

Samsung said Wednesday that it will hold its Galaxy Unpacked event in Seoul, South Korea in late July.The event that will unveil its newest foldable smartphones will be held at COEX and is expected to take place on July 27.It is the first time that Samsung is holding an Unpacked event, where it unve

Japanese tech giant Sony, which is supplying the panel used by Apple for its new mixed reality device Vision Pro, has a capacity of 900,000 units of these panels per year, TheElec has learned.Sony manufactures the OLED on silicon, or OLEDoS, which uses silicon as a substrate to make a high-resolutio

Display equipment maker Charm Engineering has won its patent lawsuit against Enjet after three years of legal back and forths.Earlier this month, the Supreme Court denied the two appeals made by Enjet against Charm Engineering.Enjet had filed appeals against two Patent Court decisions that invalidat

Nextin’s latest equipment aimed at use in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process in semiconductor production is expected to be supplied to a customer later this year, TheElec has learned.The new equipment, called ResQ, will begin testing at a potential customer’s production line this month, sources said.

Fab equipment maker Protec is expected to see its sales expand as a contract that limited the sales of its laser assisted bonder (LAB) expired last month, TheElec has learned.LAB is used to attach the chip die on the board during packaging using a laser.Most chip dies are attached boards using infra

HB Technology will be supplying automated optical inspection (AOI) and repair equipment to glass substrate maker Absolics, a subsidiary of SKC, TheElec has learned.It is a new revenue source for HB Technology, which never supplied inspection equipment for glass substrates for chip packaging before.I

LG Energy Solution and Hyundai Motor Group are reviewing a plan to apply Z-stacking in their joint battery factory in the US, TheElec has learned.The pair’s joint factory in Indonesia, HLI Green Power, has already applied the method, which stacks battery materials cathodes and anodes alternatively o

SK Hynix said on Tuesday that it has started verification of its latest Gen 5 (1b) 10-nanometer (nm) server DDR5 DRAM with Intel.Once approved, the new memory chip will be paired with Intel’s Xeon Scalable Platform server processors.SK Hynix said its latest DDR5 DRAM has a speed of 6.4Gbps and claim

Samsung Display has started placing orders for equipment it wants to install on its first Gen 8 OLED production line.This was confirmed by its equipment suppliers Philoptics, FNS Tech, KCTech and HIMS.Philoptics said it signed a deal worth 63 billion won; FNS Tech 36 billion won; KCTech 35.7 billion

Telecommunication equipment maker Eluon’s goal ahead was to supply quality telecommunication equipment that is cheaper but better than those made by Huawei, Eluon president Lee Young-sun told TheElec.Its equipment has already been verified by use of them by South Korean telcos, Lee said in an interv