Samsung has begun production of key components it will use on its upcoming foldable phones, TheElec has learned.The company has placed orders enough to manufacture a total of mid- to late-10 million units for Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Galaxy Z Fold 4, sources said.The assembly of the complete production w

Murata Manufacturing and Taiyo Yuden expect revenue from multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) to grow by over 10% this year.The Japanese companies said revenues from this fiscal year __ from April 2022 to March 2023 __ are expected to increase by 11% and 14%, respectively, this year.Meanwhile, comp

Revenue from display driver IC (DDI) used in OLED panels is expected to reach US$6.123 billion this year, according to analyst firm Omdia.But this will continue to drop starting next year to drop to US$4.46 billion in 2028.The spread of Covid-19, which caused a shortage of the chips, more than doubl

South Korean display equipment maker KPS has unveiled a new fine metal mask (FMM) for use in the production of 15.6-inch notebook OLED panel.The company said it used what it calls a hybrid method to manufacture the FMMs.The prototype was made by assembling cell-level hole masks into one larger mask.

BOE had manufactured only a meager amount of OLED panels for iPhones since February, TheElec has learned.The Chinese display panel maker had begun supplying OLED panels for the 6.1-inch model of the iPhone 13 series since last year.But since February, the company’s panel volume for the phone plummet

LG Display said on Thursday that it saw a significant year-on-year profit drop during the first quarter due to lowered panel shipment and price drops.The company said it recorded 6.47 trillion won in revenue and 38.3 billion won in operating income, a drop of 6% and 93%, respectively.The company sai

Samsung was reviewing using batteries from Chinese battery maker Amperex Technology Limited (ATL) for its upcoming foldable smartphones, TheElec has learned.If Samsung’s MX business, the name of its mobile business, approves of the use, it will be the first time that it is using batteries from ATL f

Samsung is planning to increase its joint development manufacturing (JDM) of smartphones more than it initially planned this year, TheElec has learned.The South Korean tech giant is planning to increase the volume of smartphones produced by its Chinese contract makers by 20 million units for a total

LX Semicon saw its operating profit for the first quarter of 2022 jump thanks to the high demand for display driver IC (DDI).The fabless chip company said on Monday in its preliminary earning guidance that it recorded 585.1 billion won in revenue and 127.9 billion won in operating profit during the

Samsung is likely to use batteries from LG Energy Solution on its new foldable smartphones launching later this year, TheElec has learned.Samsung’s MX Business, the name of its mobile business, was reviewing using LG Energy Solution’s small-sized pouch batteries on the Galaxy Z Fold 4, sources said.

South Korean battery maker Samsung SDI is planning to apply to its smartphone battery production the stacking method it currently uses for the production of electric vehicle batteries.The stacking method stacks battery materials in layers and Samsung SDI uses this technique currently in the producti

Coasia Optics will be supplying lens modules to Samsung for use on the Galaxy S smartphone series, TheElec has learned.The lens modules will be used for the front cameras on Galaxy S smartphones series, starting with the recently launched Galaxy S22 series, sources said. Coasia Optics’ affiliate Coa

SK IE Technology will be supplying the transparent polyimide film, which is used as the cover windows of screens, on Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) foldable notebook.The company will be the exclusive supplier of the films and had won the order by offering them at half the price of rival bids, sources said.S

Jahwa Electronics said on Wednesday that it plans to spend 191 billion won on building facilities to produce new models.The company currently supplies optical image stabilization (OIS) actuators to Samsung for the Galaxy S22 series smartphones.The size of the spending plan, which will last until Mar

Samsung is expected to procure 6.5 million units of smartphone OLED panels from Chinese display panel makers BOE and CSOT this year, according to Mizuho Securities.This will be approximately eight times the amount it procured last year __ 800,000 units __ from the two companies, Mizuho Securities an

Samsung said on Thursday that it has recorded 77 trillion won in sales and 14.1 trillion won in operating profit for the first quarter this year. It is a rise of 17.75% and 50.32%, respectively, from 2021. Analysts said the company enjoyed strong demand for its memory chips and smartphones during th

BOE is planning to build a Gen 8.6 (2250x2600mm) IT OLED panel production line at its B16 factory in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, China, TheElec has learned.The Chinese display panel giant is planning to have the line have a production capacity of 15,000 substrates per month and start pr

Haesung Optics will be supplying a component to Samsung Electronics needed to make the optical image stabilization (OIS) actuator used smartphone camera modules, TheElec has learned. The component maker will be supplying a component called sub, which will be provided to another camera module supplie

SK Hynix said on Tuesday that it has launched a new enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) that uses 128-layer NAND flashes.P5530 also uses controllers provided by the South Korean chip giant’s subsidiary Solidigm, which was formed in San Hose following the completion of the first stages of the acquisit

Philoptics was testing its OLED fine metal mask (FMM) with a Chinese panel maker, the company’s CEO said.During its annual shareholders’ meeting, Philoptics CEO Han Ki-su said the evaluation process, which started late last year, will take approximately a year to complete.This means Philoptics will