The Korea International Beer Expo(KIBEX) 2020 will be held for three days from March 19-21 next year at aT Center in Seoul.KIBEX is the only beer-specialized fair in Korea where visitors can see and experience all the businesses of the beer industry value chain from beer production to distribution,

LG Display is deeply thinking about the conversion of the TV LCD production line in the Paju P8 factory in Gyeonggi-do. This is why recently the 10.5th generation(2940mm x 3370mm) LCD lines in China are operating continuously, and the 8.5th generation(2200mm x 2500mm) line has been hurting the ROI o

Samsung Electronics' System LSI division is preparing to break away from the foundry division. Considering the expiration of exclusive production contracts between the two divisions next year, Taiwan's TSMC and UMC likely become the alternatives.It also shows the strange competition between

Samsung's automotive semiconductor business has finally begun to shine.Following Audi, global first-tier parts suppliers (Tier 1) are also considering Samsung's adoption of infotainment processors. It is noteworthy whether the automotive semiconductor business, which has been sluggish in the

As the demand for high-tech materials is localized due to Japan's export control of materials, Ntrium, the material startup is attracting attention. The company, which was selected as a "Technological Innovation Company" by SK Hynix as an EMI shielding material for semiconductors, recently succe

A Korean company developed GaN-on-Diamond deposition technology for the first time in Korea, the next generation wireless communication (RF) semiconductor material.Gallium nitride-on-diamond has excellent heat dissipation, making it suitable for high performance, high temperature, and high voltage m

Except for the form-factor, the most weakness of LCD compared to OLED is the low color contrast. The contrast is the luminance gap between the darkest fixel and brightest fixel in LCD. And the contrast ratio of displays is higher, our eyes feel more clear.The display panel makers consider ‘Duel cell

Chinese OLED panels are adopted in Korean smartphone.LG uses OLED screens from Chinese companies, GVO and Tianma, in their smartphone, V50. KIPOST confirmed it from several industry sources. V50 has dual screens, one with is produced in LGdisplay, and another screen is from Chinese companies. with i

One of major display maker in chaina, Tianma plans to build up the another manufacturing bases in Xiamen, China. The Display panel maker has already their 1st and 2nd production line in Wuhan, China, so it seems that a bit earlier than expectation.Industrial sources forecast that the biggest LTPS LC

BOE decides to cut production of LCD panels including 10.5G.The Price of LCD panels is expected to go up next month because of cutting production by LCD panel makers in Korea and China.Accoding to FPdisplay, a Chinese media, BOE will cut LCD panel output by 25% from July. LG Display also plan to cut

Falling prey to downward spirals in the prices of memory chips, SK Hynix saw its 1st quarter operating profits more than halved quarter-on-quarter.The world’s second largest memory chip maker said today that it logged an operating profit of 1.37 trillion won, 69% down from a quarter ago, in the firs

2019 CAPEX Plan for Li-ion Battery Cell Production

As EV, or electric vehicle market is rapidly scaling up across the globe, so is EV secondary battery market. To keep up, Korean Li-ion secondary battery makers and their ecosystem partners are bracing themselves to up their capital investments to build up more of capacity. As a result, the Li-ion se

Let's take a peek into how LG's 65-inch rollable TV works

LG’s rollable TVs come into the spotlight. The consumer electronics titan unveiled a commercial version of 65-inch rollable OLED TV lines at CES 2019, wowing global IT industry with their sleek, paper-like thin, and rollable form factor as well as crystal –crispy picture quality. Due out sometime in

Samsung Electronics has staked out RDL interposer and fan-out system-in-package technologies (FoSiP) as a next generation of cash cows for its foundry business. Samsung’s focus on the new, novel cutting-edge packaging technologies is to appeal to its foundry customers, as the two packaging technolog

The semiconductor industry is undergoing rapid paradigm shift, seeing AI rapidly emerging as a new growth driver for semiconductor chips. Especially, demand for AI chips will rapidly grow to reach US$55 billion by 2022, according to SEMICO, as they will serve as brains of a wide range of devices fro

Week demand, price falls shrink SK Hynix's 4th quarter profits by 1/3

SK Hynix falls prey on sluggish demand for memory chips in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 ended on Dec. 31, 2018, suffering from double drops both in the operating profits and revenues. The world’s second largest memory chip maker today reported a 32% quarter-on-quarter drop in the 4th quarter op

Samsung's 20MP image sensor chip comes in a 1/3.4 inch footprint

Samsung Electronics has sampled a 1/3.4 inch footprint-size ultra-tiny 20MP CMOS image sensor chip that incorporates 20 million microscopically-patterned pixels of 0.8 micrometer. Trademarked as ISOCELL Slim 3T2, the 20MP CMOS image sensor chip come in an ultra-tiny silicon footprint of 1/3.4 inches

Rudolph Technologies, Inc. has received orders for over US$15 million of legacy and new process control systems from a memory manufacturer based in Asia. The systems will be used by the top-tier memory chip maker, as the chip maker is rapidly shifting from wire-bonding to advanced packaging architec

Taiwanese foundry chip maker TSMC reported a better-than-expected fourth quarter financial results, chalking up 4.4% gain year-on-year in the consolidated revenue in the fourth quarter ended on Dec. 31, 2018. The fourth quarter revenue was 11.3% up quarter-on-quarter. The breakdown of the revenues b

Detailed specs on Galaxy S10 smart phone series come to surface, highlighting the 5G communication capability as its main, compelling feature.According to recent reports that were leaked out of the three Korean mobile carriers’ documents, the Galaxy S10 series of smart phone models come in 4 differe