SK Hynix has beat market estimates on its latest earnings on the back of rising prices of memory chip prices and strong sales of high-bandwidth memory (HBM).The South Korean chip giant said on Thursday that it recorded 12.42 trillion won in revenue and 2.88 trillion won in operating income in the fi

South Korean chip assembly and test firm LB Semicon is aiming to reduce its reliance on display driver IC (DDI) for growth.LB Semicon vice president Kim Jeong-kyu told TheElec that last year was a time of reflection on what business areas it has invested in to plan where it wants to invest in the fu

Samsung Electronics vice chairman and co-CEO Han Jong-hee returned from its three-day visit to China on Wednesday.Han, who is also the head of Samsung’s Device Experience (DX) division, which makes smartphones, TVs, and appliances, was accompanied by Samsung’s head of procurement at its TV Business

Samsung said on Tuesday that it has begun mass production of 1Tb triple-level cell (TLC) Gen 9 V-NAND.The chip has a double stack structure, which is in contrast to rival SK Hynix’s Gen 9 V-NAND which is expected to have a triple stack structure.This means Samsung will have an advantage in cost whil

Battery and display production equipment maker Philoptics said on Tuesday that it has supplied a piece of laser equipment to a chipmaker’s trial line for use in the production of a glass substrate.The equipment, called Through Glass Via (TGV), based on laser, was supplied to the potential customer l

Samsung’s smartphone business is planning to use OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) from Sony for its extended reality (XR) device, TheElec has learned.Samsung MX Business’ decision to use the Japanese company’s technology over its affiliate Samsung Display, which has also been developing its own OLEDoS techn

SK Hynix is planning to use TSMC’s base die technology for its next-generation high bandwidth memory (HBM).The South Korean memory maker used its own process to make the base die for its latest HBM3E.For the follow-up HBM4, which will start mass production in 2026, SK Hynix will use TSMC’s advanced

Fab equipment maker PSK has succeeded in nullifying two out of three patents of Lam Research related to bevel etchers.South Korea’s highest court upheld an appellate court decision made last year that Lam Research's two patents were invalid.While the pair are fighting over another three patents at t

Econy will handle all the back-end processing orders for the ultra-thin glass (UTG) that Samsung will use for its Galaxy Z Flip 6 smartphone, TheElec has learned.For the UTG of Galaxy Z Fold 6, Samsung will continue to use Dowoo Insys as its back-end processing contractor, sources said.Back-end proc

3M is aiming to quadruple its revenue from chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) pads by 300% in three years.Yang Yong-suk, technical supervisor of electronic material at 3M Korea, said during a local event hosted by the company said transistors in advanced nodes were going to nano-scale but results w

Samsung manufactured more smartphones and tablets than it aimed to during the first quarter this year, TheElec has learned.The tech giant manufactured 64.5 million units of smartphones and tablets during the quarter, 22% higher than it initially targeted at the year’s start, sources said.Samsung had

South Korea’s export of semiconductors climbed for the fifth consecutive month as of March.Total semiconductor exports hit US$11.69 billion in March, an increase of 33.9% from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Science and ICT.Memory chips accounted for US$7.45 billion, with system chips a

Universal Display Corporation’s (UDC) plan to commercially launch a phosphorescent blue emitter material for OLED panels by the end of this year seems up in the air.Sources based in South Korea told TheElec that the emitter’s performance is still unstable and when and on what display panel they will

“That promise has been kept,” Li Mei, the chairperson of Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission, told the parliament in December of last year.They were responding to a question on whether US chip giant Qualcomm kept its promise to invest $700 million in the country.The company, known for its Snapdragon proc

Fab equipment maker Tokyo Electron’s cryo etching equipment is using hydrogen fluoride (HF).Etching is done to NAND to form the channel holes previously used carbon fluoride (CF).But with ultra-low temperature etching required for advanced NANDs (Gen 10 and up), the use of CF is expected to dramatic

LG Electronics has sold 48 patents to Chinese smartphone maker Oppo.According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the South Korean electronics maker sold the standard essential patents to Oppo in November.The SEPs are related to codec, the technology needed to compress digital video an

Samsung has won Nvidia as a customer for 2.5D packaging, TheElec has learned.The company’s Advanced Package (AVP) team will be providing the interpose and I-Cube, its 2.5D package to the GPU maker, sources said.The high bandwidth memory (HBM) and the GPU wafer production will be handled by other com

LG Display has diversified its supply line for display driver ICs (DDI) it uses in OLED panels for customer Apple.Taiwan’s Novatek will supply the chips for the first time this year along with existing supplier LX Semicon, for OLED panels to go on iPhone 16.LG Display’s move is likely aimed at contr

LG Energy Solution said on Thursday that it has started construction of its new battery factory in the state of Arizona, which it will spend 7.2 trillion won.It is the second factory it is building on its own in North America. The plant will manufacture cylindrical batteries aimed at electric vehicl

SK Hynix said on Thursday that it will spend US$3.87 billion to build a chip packaging plant in Indiana state in the US.The plant will provide packaging services for memory chips aimed at AI applications.It will start shipping next-generation high bandwidth memory (HBM) in 2028.