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

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