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

Propelled by booming demand from cryptocurrency market, China’s pure-play foundry service market jerked up by 41% from a year ago to hit US$10.6 billion in sales, according to U.S. market reserch firm IC Insights. That sales volume accounted for 19% of the global foundry market, suggesting that Chin

NXP Semiconductors and Kalray join hands to develop an intelligent, highly parallel automotive SoC platform for level 2 and 3 autonomous cars. The two chip makers said at CES 2019 trade show that they have signed a strategic alliance to jointly address strong market requirements for automotive-grade

Samsung Electronics has allied with its longtime rival Apple Inc. to give its smart TV users more choices of entertainment contents- a move to keep them more loyal to Samsung brand. The two rivalries in global smart phone markets said on Jan. 7 that they have teamed up to make each of their key prod

Samsung Electronics scores its first design win in the years-long attempt to supply automotive-grade SoC chips, laying the foundation for its foray into automotive chip market. The world’s second largest semiconductor chip maker said that it has signed a deal with Audi to supply Exynos Auto V9 SoC c

LCD panel maker Truly Semiconductors’ Gen 5 LCD fabrication facility in Meishan, Sichuan, China went on line on Dec. 29, 2018. Touted as the first hi-end module type fabrication line, the Gen 5 will have started to produce the first sample products on Dec 31. 3. About 12.5 yuan has been poured into