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

Nextchip is expected to begin production of its advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) chip Apache6 within the year, company CEO Kyoungsoo Kim told TheElec in an interview.The chip will be made using Samsung Foundry’s 14-nanometer node for a single-run production at the start, Kim said.This means

Samsung’s semiconductor business unit had a difficult time for the past year.The unit, called the Device Solutions (DS) division, recorded 15 trillion won in operating loss last year, its worst performance ever.This contrasted with its performance in the prior years, where it would earn 30 trillion

Samsung will exclusively use Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processors for its upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 6 and Galaxy Z Fold 6 foldable phones, TheElec has learned.The tech giant has only used Qualcomm’s application processor on its foldable phones up to now and this will be the case again for the new phones as we

TSMC’s design house partner Asicland has won AI chip firm D.notitia as a customer.More and more South Korean AI chip firms are seeking to use the Taiwanese contract chip maker to manufacture their chips, which is expected to boost Asicland’s earnings in the coming years.The design house firm said la

Samsung is developing a 16-stack 3D DRAM, a senior company executive said.Siwoo Lee, executive vice president of DRAM pathfinding at Samsung, told reporters during the International Memory Week event lat week that some companies, including Samsung, are preparing samples for a 16-stack 3D DRAM. Micro

Samsung’s upcoming foldable phone Galaxy Z Flip 6 will have a thicker cover glass than its predecessors, TheElec has learned.The ultra-thin glass (UTG) cover window will be 50 micrometers thick compared to its predecessors’ 30 micrometers, sources said.This was being done to increase the hardiness o

SK Hynix saw another jump in customer deposits in the first quarter of 2024, the company’s regulatory filings showed.The company said it received 56.1 billion won in advanced payment and 2.7459 trillion won in customer liabilities, or customer deposits where an entity receives advanced payment for o

Dreamtech said on Thursday that it was planning to supply chip modules to a global chipmaker.It said it will be supplying DRAM modules and assembled solid-state drives (SS) to the global top-tier customer __ highly likely Samsung’s chip division. The company said it was entering the sector to respon

Samsung SDI has kicked off a project to reevaluate its battery production equipment to boost efficiency, TheElec has learned.Called V Project, which stands for Value Reengineering Project, the South Korean lithium-ion battery maker is aiming to reevaluate is existing production equipment to increase

Samsung Display showed off its deposition mask to be used in the production RGB OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) display at the Display Week event hosted by the Society of Information Display (SID) in the US from May 14 to 16.Rival LG Display also showed off its own OLEDoS technology at the event, a white O

South Korea is planning to open an AI semiconductor innovation center in Silicon Valley.The Korean Semiconductor Industry Association (KSIA) said on Wednesday it would take applications up to the 30th of this month for those who wish to reside at the planned center. A committee will review the appli

German laser firm LPKF Laser & Electronics will supply this year its laser equipment for use in the through glass via (TGV) process of glass chip board production.LPKF CEO Klaus Fiedler told TheElec in an interview that the company signed a deal to ship its kits to a customer working on manufacturin

Bearing maker WONST is targeting an annual revenue of 100 billion won this year, CEO Lee Taek-won told TheElec.The company is aiming to list on the Korean bourse next year on the back of hitting the revenue target, Lee said.WONST had originally aimed to go public this year, deciding on Shinhan Secur

Samsung may cancel its planned launch of a budget model version of its upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 6 foldable phone, TheElec has learned.The South Korean tech giant initially planned to showcase three foldable phones during the summer: Galaxy Z Fold 6, Galaxy Z Flip 6, and an affordable version of the Fo

SK Hynix is planning to start mass production of HBM4E in 2026, a company research said.The South Korean memory maker originally planned to start mass production of the Gen 7 high-bandwidth memory (HBM) in 2027.But SK Hynix team leader and researcher Kwi Wook Kim said during International Memory Wee

CGP Materials is aiming to reach 150 billion won in annual revenue by 2027 through the expansion of its semiconductor patterning material business.The electronic material firm said on Thursday that it has started construction of a new factory in Sejong City.CGP Materials CEO Park Chun-geun said duri

SK Hynix said on Thursday that it has developed Zoned UFS (ZUFS) 4.0 and start mass production of the mobile NAND solution in the third quarter.ZUFS improves on conventional UFS flash memory with increased data management efficiency.It manages data per their characteristics and saves them in differe

The US chip production capacity is expected to triple from 2022 to 2032 from the enactment of the CHIPS and Science Act, but extending current support and considering additional measures was needed to “stay the course”, according to a joint report by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and

LG Electronics is attempting to sell battery production equipment to non-LG companies.This stems from its recent failure to win orders from the joint battery factory of LG Energy Solution and Hyundai Motor in the US, sources said.LG Electronics’ Production engineering Research Institute (PRI), known