German battery recycling firm Duesenfeld said on Tuesday that it has won the German Sustainability Award 2024.The award, which is in its sixteenth year, selects companies that take climate change and the environment seriously and provide innovation and environmentally friendly processes.Duesenfeld w

Samsung will be unveiling its Galaxy S24 smartphones on January 17 next year at San Jose, TheElec has learned.The date is two weeks earlier than its Unpacked for the Galaxy S23 smartphones held this year.It is also the first time that the South Korean company is holding its Unpacked event in San Jos

LS Cable & System Asia, the largest cable maker in Vietnam, is entering the rare-earth mineral market, TheElec has learned.The company plans to collaborate with a local company, and then supply the minerals to affiliate LS MnM that will smelt them, sources said.Rare-earth minerals refer to 17 heavy

Samsung’s chip business was testing a new key chemical developed by a domestic supplier.The tech giant was conducting a quality test of propylene glycol methyl ether acetate (PGMEA) provided by Chemtronics, sources said.The move is significant as Samsung relied on PGMEA supplies from US and Japanese

Samsung Display has rejected Kateeva’s RGB inkjet equipment that it originally planned to use in the production of quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels.The equipment, which domestic firm HB Solution is the distributor of in South Korea, received a “Fail” grade last month in Samsung Display’s testing, source

Power chip maker Onsemi’s fab in South Korea suffered a power outage on Sunday, TheElec learned on Thursday.The fab based at Bucheon was out of power for around 20 minutes starting at 9:30 pm local time on Sunday.The company’s fab was a victim of a wide outage that affected some areas of the cities

Merck Performance Materials has appealed in its patent lawsuit against Tri Chemical Laboratories (TCLC) over hafnium (Hf) precursor in South Korea.The South Korean patent court validated TCLC’s patents in its first ruling but Merck has appealed, TheElec confirmed on Tuesday.While still in appeal, th

Wonik Holding’s scrubber for semiconductor production was going through Samsung’s quality test, TheElec has learned.The company’s equipment was also going through a quality test by a South Korean 8-inch chip foundry, sources also said.Wonik Holdings wants to focus on high-end scrubbers such as those

The Israel-Hasmas war has increased concerns in the South Korean semiconductor industry for the procurement of hydrogen bromide used in chip production.This is because the domestic market is 99.6% reliant on imports of bromine (Br) from Israel, according to data from the Korea International Trade As

There was increasing interest within Samsung Display in technologies that can be applied to manufacture OLED panels without the use of fine metal masks (FMM), TheElec has learned.This interest was sparked after the Society of Information Display conference held in May this year where new production

A researcher who previously worked for Samsung Display has been arrested and indicted for the allegation that they leaked trade secrets related to OLED technologies to China.The unnamed researcher was in China five months prior but returned voluntarily to face the charges of leaking trade secrets un

Samsung Display is expected to start production of Gen 8 OLED panels aimed at IT devices in the first half of 2026, according to an analyst firm.The South Korean display maker earlier this year announced that it will start spending 4.1 trillion won to secure production lines for Gen 8 OLED panels.Ge

Semiconductor IP company Qualitas Semiconductor has begun IP development for UCIe (Universal Chiplet Interconnect express), an area currently dominated by global giants Synopsis and Cadence.Qualitas Semiconductor CEO Duho Kim told TheElec that the company is hoping to produce a prototype in three ye

Solus Advanced Materials said on Monday that it has received approval for its thin foils from memory chip giant SK Hynix.It will be the first case that a domestic copper foil company supplies such a product to SK Hynix.The thin foils, which are ultra-thin at 2 micrometers, are aimed at use in a modi

EcoPro Materials said on Tuesday that it was issuing 14.47 million new shares for its listing on the Korean exchange.The upper cap is 46,000 won and it is hoping to raise up to 665.9 billion won from the listing.EcoPro Materials, a subsidiary of battery cathode maker EcoPro, produces precursors used

BOE had the second-highest number of patents related to display panels registered in the US, according to a South Korean lawyer.The Chinese display giant filed and registered the second largest number of patents from 2013 to August 2023, only behind Samsung Display, Dana Patent Law Firm Senior Partn

CGP Materials said on Monday that it has signed a MOU with Nissan Chemical Corporation to supply key chemical materials.Nissan Chemical was formed in 1887 and is Japan’s first chemical company. It supplies materials used in semiconductors, displays, biological science, and medicines and records an a

South Korean semiconductor materials firms are expected to see their supply decline for the remainder of the year as memory chip makers reduce their NAND production output.Some companies have reduced as much as over 50% of their material supply for NAND production compared to last year, sources said

South Korean printed circuit board company Korea Circuit was supplying high-end automotive flip chip (FC)-ball grid array (BGA) boards to STMicroelectronics, TheElec has learned.Korea Circuit first secured Broadcom as a customer when it began manufacturing FC-BGA.STMicroelectronics was accounting fo

LG Display has decided not to start investment and construction of a production line for OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) this year, TheElec has learned.OLEDoS deposits organic materials on silicon instead of glass and is a technology to make high-resolution microdisplays.LG Display plans to continue to foc