Yongin City said on Monday that it has secured fab equipment companies DSE Tech, NexStar and Justem as investors for its planned semiconductor cluster.The three companies will spend 41.5 billion won in the city to build their equipment factory and related facilities.DSE Tech is a tier-1 supplier to

AP Systems have won orders for display production equipment from Chinese display maker Tianma for the latter’s flexible OLED factory.The company was among 21 South Korean companies that won a total of 44 ordres for equipment for use by the Chinese company for its Gen 6 OLED factory at Xiamen, data f

South Korea’s tech ministry was mulling how to properly announce the 5G network quality ratings of local telcos, people familiar with the matter told TheElec Friday.The Ministry of Science and ICT was hesitating over whether to rank the telcos or announce each telco’s average download speeds on thei

Nanometrics, a semiconductor inspection and measuring equipment company, aims for the sales of 110 billion won this year. In 2018, the company generated sales of 89bn won. It will also try to achieve 20% market share of the thin film (membrane quality) measuring equipment. This is because, as the di

SemiLAB Korea is speeding up to take the semiconductor market with infrared (IR) measurement equipment. This is thanks to the unique commercialization of its IR measurement equipment using long wavelengths. SemiLAB has proposed a method for precisely measuring DRAM and NAND flash structures that has

AUROS Technology is the only South Korean company that specializes in overlay measurement equipment. Almost half of the overlay equipment used in large memory manufacturers of Korea is made by AUROS Technology.Last year’s sales more than doubled the total of the previous year. AUROS Technology had s