LG Display has received approval from customer Apple to supply OLED panels for iPhone 16 Pro Max, TheElec has learned.This is ahead of Samsung Display, which has never happened before, sources said.Last month, LG Display and Samsung Display both received approval to supply OLED panels for iPhone 16

SK Materials Airplus said on Monday that it will spend 700 billion won to build plants to produce gaseous nitrogen (GN2) and clean dry air (CDA).The two gases are used in chip production. GN2 is used a carrier gas to transport precursors on the wafers during deposition. It is also used to prevent ox

Samsung shared in a recent paper that it believes hybrid bonding was needed to manufacture a 16-stack high-bandwidth memory (HBM).In its paper published during the 2024 IEEE 74th Electronic Components and Technology Conference held in Colorado last month titled, in Korean, D2W (die to wafer) Copper

TSMC’s design house partner Asicland has won AI chip startup DeepX as its customer, TheElec has learned.DeepX had previously used Samsung Foundry’s design house Gaonchips as its production partner.But the startup recently signed a deal with Asicland to use TSMC’s 12-nanometer (nm) node to manufactur

The global semiconductor market is expected to grow 16% on-year this year, according to analyst firm World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS).The market will grow to be worth US$611.2 billion this year, WSTS noted. Its growth projection also increased from the 13.1% it gave late last year.Demand

Precursor producer Eco&&Dream is aiming to turn a profit this year and hit 100 billion won in revenue.The company is also aiming to expand its annual precursor production capacity to 100,000 metric tonnes, its research head Kim Tae-min told TheElec.Eco&Dream saw its revenue for the first quarter sur

Nvidia has unveiled its next-generation AI platform dubbed Rubin, a successor to Blackwell that will launch in 2026.The company will also launch a new CPU platform dubbed Vera the same year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a keynote address at National Taiwan University.Huang didn’t share the specs

Hanwha Precision Machinery has won a deal with SK Hynix to supply thermal compression (TC) bonders used in the production of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), TheElec has learned.With ASMPT (which Dutch equipment maker ASM is the largest shareholder with a 25% share) also agreeing to develop TC bonder un

Microchip Technology is aiming to supply radiation-resistant semiconductors to South Korea’s burgeoning space industry.The company touted its radiation-resistant FPGA and microcontroller (MCU) units during the Advanced Semiconductor Safety Innovation Conference (ASSIC) 2024 conference, hosted by The

SensoHub has been developing a time delayed integration (TDI) sensor since 2018 and was working on applying them on satellites, the company CEO said on Friday.TDI is an image sensor that increases light absorption in timed intervals. It is a charged couple device (CCD) which lost out against CMOS in

PSK Holdings had supplied reflow equipment to Micron back in March, TheElec has learned.The equipment is used in the production of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), which are used with AI processors.The equipment were supplied to Taiwan and Micron is expected to order more if the initial units are receiv

LG Display has supplied its two-stack tandem OLED panel to Dell’s notebook, TheElec has learned.It is the first time that the OLED tech is being used on a notebook.Dell’s XPS13 will use LG Display’s 13-inch OLED panel. The notebook offers a liquid crystal display (LCD) model and an OLED model. The L

SK Hynix is planning to use Inpria’s metal oxide resist (MOR) in the production of 10-nanometer (nm) Gen 6 (1c) DRAM, TheElec has learned.The resist is expected to be used by the chipmaker to draw the finest lines on the 1c DRAM. Sources said SK Hynix’s 1c DRAM has five extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lay

LG Display has secured approval to supply OLED panels by Apple for iPhone 16 Pro, alongside rival Samsung Display, TheElec has learned.It is the first time that it secured such an approval in a timely fashion before the phones go into mass production.In the past, LG Display received approval months

South Korean component maker Fine M-Tec has been approved by Samsung as a backup supplier of hinges for the Galaxy Z Flip foldable phones, TheElec has learned.However, the company is yet to receive the approval to supply hinges for the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 6, sources said.Fine M-Tec is yet to make

Samsung Display expects LED on silicon (LEDoS) displays used on augmented reality devices to be a monolithic one panel, a senior executive said.Samsung Display vice president Huh Jong-moo said on Thursday in the Microdisplay Conference hosted by TheElec that LEDoS technology is expected to evolve fr

Samsung is planning to increase the number of smartphones made through joint development manufacturers (JDM) in China this year.The South Korean company initially planned to manufacture 4.4 million units through its JDM partners this year, but this has increased by 23 million units to 6.7 million un

GPU giant Nvidia saw a 262% jump in revenue in its latest fiscal quarter.The company said on Wednesday that it recorded US$26 billion in revenue from February to April, its 2025 fiscal first quarter, a jump of 262% from a year earlier.Operating profit surged 690% over the same time period to US$16.9

South Korea will provide expanded financial support to local chip companies to bolster the domestic semiconductor value chain.South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said during a meeting held at the Yongsan Presidential Office on Thursday that the government has come up with a program to foster the lo

Samsung SDI is planning to upgrade the humidity sensors it uses in its battery production lines, TheElec has learned.Battery manufacturing lines are traditionally kept in a dry room condition, but accurately sensing the humidity of these conditions using the currently used capacitive humidity sensor