Samsung Display failed to run a booth at this year’s Display Week conference organized by Society of Information Display(SID) in San Jose earlier this month. Some say the display-maker may forgo the event next year as well.Booth location was the main cause for Samsung’s reticence, they noted.“Until

The global semiconductor market surrendered huge losses during the January to March period of this year, causing the top 10 chip makers to suffer steep declines in sales.According to market research firm IHS Markit on May 29, worldwide semiconductor revenues during the first quarter fell 12.9 percen

The smartphone substrate factory production capacity of LG Innotek has plunged by 70%. As LG Electronics has decided to relocate its smartphone production line in Pyeongtaek to Vietnam, it is unlikely that LG Innotek's PCB factory will survive.According to a report by LG Innotek filed to the Financi

JUSUNG Engineering will produce the first domestic 10.5 generation thin film transistor (TFT) vapor deposition CVD equipment. The first customer to be delivered to is LG Display’s 10.5-generation large OLED production line at the P10 plant in Paju, Gyeonggi-do. TFT deposition equipment of higher tha

Samsung Electronics has formalized acquiring Corephotonics, an Israeli multi-camera solution company.According to the quarterly report released on the 15th, Corephotonics was incorporated into Samsung Electronics as a subsidiary. In January, a local media source in Israel reported that Samsung Elect

At the 'Samsung Electronics Image Sensor Presentation' held at the Samsung Electronics Press Room on the morning of the 9th, Park Yong-in, the sensor business team leader (Vice President) of Device Solution (DS) of Samsung Electronics said, "(Samsung Electronics) has set its sights on achieving the

President Moon Jae-In said, “Let’s maintain our position as number one in the world’s memory market and become the world’s major leader in the comprehensive semiconductor market by achieving the number one position in foundries by 2030 and the 10% fabless share," at the "System Semiconductor Vision

Silicon Works, LG Group’s fabless semiconductor affiliate, plans to mass-produce chips at Samsung's foundry. Experts evaluate that this move is meaningful because it is the first win-win cooperative effort in the field of semiconductors between Samsung and Silicon Works since Silicon Works became an

Samsung Electronics and Harman are entering the audio semiconductor market. Samsung Electronics' strategy is to collaborate with Harman, which has influence in the electric parts and audio equipment market, to vertically integrate and create audio semiconductors as a new revenue source.According to

The government attempted to designate semiconductor and organic light emitting diode (OLED) display equipment technology as a national core technology but postponed it due to oppositions from the industry and stakeholders.According to industry sources, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOT

Samsung Electro-Mechanics will sell its wireless charging module business to a midsized company in Korea.According to the industry on the 9th, Samsung Electro-Mechanics has decided to sell its wireless charging module business to Chemtronics, a manufacturer of electronic parts and chemicals. The com

Magnachip Semiconductor has officially requested SK Hynix to "acquire the company."Magnachip is a semiconductor company that branched off from Hynix Semiconductor in 2004. Magnachip was formerly the part of LG Semiconductors that was absorbed into Hyundai Electronics (formerly Hynix Semiconductor) a

INTEKPLUS, a specialist in visual inspection equipment, will supply package inspection equipment to the world-class semiconductor company. The order receipts in the past 6 months alone amounted to 10 billion won. The sole supplier status is expected to continue for 10 years.On the 4th, Sangyoon Lee,

In the first quarter, sales of most foundry companies showed a downward trend. Businesses whose main market is the 300mm foundry business particularly showed weakness.According to the Topology Research Institute (TRI) in Taiwan, foundry industry sales in the first quarter were 16.5 trillion won ($ 1

LG Innotek's Cheongju factory, which produces the main PCBs, has plummeted to 51% last year. This is far lower than the 80% of the previous years. The pressure on the Substrate Material Segment's profitability is expected to increase further.According to the LG Innotek business report on the 2nd, th

According to data from the US market research firm IC Insights, China Hisilicon and Uni-SoC were ranked among the top 10 global fabs based on 2017 sales. Hisilicon positioned itself at 7th on the list, and Uni-SoC (formerly Spreadtrum RDA) came out as 10th. Hisilicon is a subsidiary of Huawei, and U

Hearing the news of passing the deliberation on the specifically requested site for the industrial complex for the construction of the Yongin semiconductor cluster in Gyeonggi-do, SK Hynix responded with a "win-win fund".SK Hynix announced on the 28th that it has confirmed plans to strengthen its wi

SK Hynix and others have passed the Government's deliberations on the special land area of ​​the industrial complex site applied to establish a large-scale semiconductor cluster in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do. SK Hynix has welcomed the news.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (Ministry of Industry) s

Kim Hyung-Hwan, Director of SK Hynix's Process Base Technology, said, “We’re striving to improve productivity by applying machine learning techniques to our process lines. This is the task we’ve been focusing on recently” at the Semiconductor and Display Technology Roadmap Seminar held at El Tower i

Yoon Soo-Young, Director of Research Center (Executive Director) of LG Display, said, “Ultimately, display technology should advance toward being rollable. The key technologies required for rollable displays are metal foil replacement and transparent polyimide (PI)” at the ‘2019 Semiconductor Displa