Tokyo Electron is expected to install the demo version of its new hybrid oxide etcher at a place designated by Samsung Electronics’ chip research group, Semiconductor Research & Development, TheElec has learned.The fab equipment maker’s new product is called hybrid because it uses the traditional RF

Battery equipment maker Philenergy is preparing to launch battery equipment aimed at 4680 cylindrical batteries, TheElec has learned.The standard was popularized by Tesla and is being adopted by other automakers BMW, Volvo and Stellantis as well.South Korean battery maker Samsung SDI invested 5 bill

A-Pro said on Monday that it recorded 60.1 billion won in revenue and 8.2 billion won in operating profit.Revenue jumped 195.6% from a year ago while operating profit turned to the black from a year ago.A-Pro currently has over 140 billion won of remaining orders for battery equipment; the company w

BOE chairman Chen Yanshun didn’t make a visit to Samsung, a key customer of the Chinese display panel maker, during his visit to South Korea in April, TheElec has learned.It is extremely rare for a high-level company executive of a component maker to not make a visit to a customer during a foreign t

A cloud hangs over the profitability of Gen 8 OLED. This is because Apple’s revenues from MacBooks are dropping, a key product that would use the OLED panels made by display panel maker’s Gen 8 OLED production lines.The iPhone maker’s revenue from MacBooks was US$7.168 billion during its fiscal seco

Battery equipment maker Avaco is expected to begin supplying its new roll press equipment to LG Energy Solution within the year, TheElec has learned.Roll press equipment is used during the electrode process in battery production to form positive and negative tabs.Avaco’s equipment is used to form th

Those in the South Korean display equipment industry told TheElec that they are skeptical of Chinese display panel maker HKC’s plan to invest in OLED display panels.Senior executives of HKC has been paying visits to South Korea for months recently and offering to order equipment to domestic equipmen

TCK is expected to widen its patent lawsuit over silicon carbide (SiC) rings to multiple companies.Park Gwang-jae, an executive vice president at TCK, or Tokai Carbon Korea, told an audience during a local conference held at Yeouido on Wednesday that there were companies that were high likely to be

Apple has recently approved the use of a Gen 8 OLED deposition machine developed by Sunic System, TheElec has learned.The iPhone maker had previously wanted the South Korean display panel makers to use a machine developed by Japan’s Canon Tokki.Sources said however Apple’s approval wasn’t an active

Hana Technology is expected to win orders for battery production equipment from SK On for the expansion of its battery facility at Seosan, South Korea, TheElec has learned.Hana Technology formed close ties with SK On when it became the vendor for tab welding and packaging equipment in 2021 to be use

Samsung SDI was collaborating with two Chinese companies to develop new stacking equipment used in battery production, TheElec has learned.There were two other South Korean companies that were also bidding for the project but they lost out to their Chinese competitors, sources said.Stacking is alrea

Jusung Engineering was on the cusp of wrapping up the development of new equipment that uses its atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology, CEO Hwang Chul-joo said on Thursday.Some of the kits are a transistor deposition machine, an inorganic emission display deposition machine and manufacturing equi

Samsung SDI is planning to add 3D CT scanning in its battery production, TheElec has learned.The inspection will be done in-line and the company has already adopted the system at its factory in Goed, Hungary.The equipment was supplied by SFA, which has been supplying them to battery cell makers sinc

Fab equipment maker Wonik wants to acquire display driver IC company TLI, TheElec has learned.Wonik, which also makes display equipment and chips, has expressed its interest in acquiring the fabless chip company since last year, sources said. The pair have recently met to discuss the issue, they add

Telecommunication chip company RFHIC was testing a microwave generator with a global fab equipment maker as well as a local South Korean fab equipment maker, TheElec has learned.The generator generates high-spectrum, short-distance microwaves __ widely used in the common microwave.The device is also

SK On is expected to double the production capacity of its Seosan plant than initially planned, TheElec has learned.The South Korean battery maker had planned to aim for an annual production capacity of 10GWh.But this has now been increased to over 20GWh, at least four times higher than the plant’s

Nepes Laweh saw its order for fan-out panel level packaging (FO-PLP) work for certain chips by Qualcomm canceled recently, TheElec has learned.The cancellation comes from continued defects and low yield, the sources said.However, Nepes Laweh has retained orders for some of the packaging work low-end

Probe card maker Micro2Nano is expecting its latest electrical die sort (EDS) probe card for DRAM to get approval from key customer SK Hynix within the year.Micro2Nano CEO Hwang Kyu-ho told TheElec on Wednesday that the company will be sending the chipmaker its evaluation sample in May.The card will

Earnings of Semes, the fab equipment-making subsidiary of Samsung, show that the South Korean tech giant is drastically reducing its spending in China.The development is likely due to restrictions being imposed on China by the US.Semes recorded 2.88 trillion won in revenue and 219.3 billion won in o

A third Chinese battery equipment maker has set up a subsidiary in South Korea in a bid to win local battery makers Samsung SDI, LG Energy Solution and SK On as customers, TheElec has learned.Huizhou-based Lyric Robot will set up its office in Dongtan, Gyeonggi Province this month, sources said.The