The memory bosses of Samsung and SK Hynix shared their respective company’s different strategies concerning high-bandwidth memory (HBM) at an industry show in Taiwan on Wednesday.Samsung Memory Business President Lee Jung-Bae and SK Hynix President Juseon Kim made keynote addresses on Wednesday, sha

Coasia Semi Korea, the chip design house subsidiary of Kosdaq-listed Coasia, is taking part in Canadian AI NPU startup Tenstorrent’s development project for their next-generation AI chip, TheElec has learned.Tenstorrent is led by CEO Jim Keller, the legendary microprocessor engineer known for his wo

The battery joint venture between Samsung SDI and General Motors will only manufacture prismatic batteries, TheElec has learned.The pair originally planned to manufacture prismatic batteries from three production line and cylindrical batteries from three production lines at their factory in Indiana,

Sapien Semiconductors CEO Myunghee Lee said on Wednesday that the company aims to turn a profit next year while reaching an annual revenue of 10 billion won this year.Lee noted that the company is expected to announce three more orders it received in the second half of the year, the CEO said in an i

Wireless security solution provider Gitsn is planning to list on Kosdaq on the back of its projected high growth rate this year.Gitsn CEO Han Dong-jin said the company expects an 80% year-on-year growth in revenue from strong sales of its wireless security solutions.Its revenue from sales of wireles

Fadu will have sales ownership of the Compute Express Link (CXL) switch chip developed by its subsidiary Eeum.Eeum CEO Jinki Han said the subsidiary will define the hardware model and architecture of the chip.Then, Fadu will takeover the resister transfer level coding and oversee production and sale

Fabless chip firm LX Semicon is entering the intelligent power module (IPM) market, TheElec has learned.The company has succeeded in developing a 600volt (V) IPM for use in home appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines, and air conditioners and was in talks with LG Electronics for a supply

This week, multiple acquaintances messaged me to ask whether a certain report was true.The report, made in South Korean media, claimed that Nvidia asked Samsung to change the design of their high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and that this would cause further delays in supply. Coincidentally, Samsung’s sha

Ultra-thin glass (UTG) maker Dowoo Insys is planning to list on the Korean Exchange next year.Company CEO Lee Jae-gyu, told TheElec on Friday that Dowoo Insys will file for the preliminary review to go public to financial authorities in the summer.Kiwoom Securities is underwriting the deal. The secu

South Korean AI chip companies Sapeon and Rebellions seeking a merger to become more competitive as competition heats up among AI chip companies amid the boom.The pair said on Wednesday that the merged entity will be inaugurated within the year after they sign the merger deal within the third quarte

AI neural processing unit (NPU) firm Aim Future will open its Series B funding round in the second half of the year, Aim Future CEO Changsoo Kim told TheElec.The startup will open the round sometime between October and November and aim to close sometime in the first half of 2025 with the aim to secu

TSMC’s design house partner Asicland has won AI chip startup DeepX as its customer, TheElec has learned.DeepX had previously used Samsung Foundry’s design house Gaonchips as its production partner.But the startup recently signed a deal with Asicland to use TSMC’s 12-nanometer (nm) node to manufactur

Precursor producer Eco&&Dream is aiming to turn a profit this year and hit 100 billion won in revenue.The company is also aiming to expand its annual precursor production capacity to 100,000 metric tonnes, its research head Kim Tae-min told TheElec.Eco&Dream saw its revenue for the first quarter sur

Nvidia has unveiled its next-generation AI platform dubbed Rubin, a successor to Blackwell that will launch in 2026.The company will also launch a new CPU platform dubbed Vera the same year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a keynote address at National Taiwan University.Huang didn’t share the specs

SensoHub has been developing a time delayed integration (TDI) sensor since 2018 and was working on applying them on satellites, the company CEO said on Friday.TDI is an image sensor that increases light absorption in timed intervals. It is a charged couple device (CCD) which lost out against CMOS in

Nextchip is expected to begin production of its advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) chip Apache6 within the year, company CEO Kyoungsoo Kim told TheElec in an interview.The chip will be made using Samsung Foundry’s 14-nanometer node for a single-run production at the start, Kim said.This means

Samsung’s semiconductor business unit had a difficult time for the past year.The unit, called the Device Solutions (DS) division, recorded 15 trillion won in operating loss last year, its worst performance ever.This contrasted with its performance in the prior years, where it would earn 30 trillion

German laser firm LPKF Laser & Electronics will supply this year its laser equipment for use in the through glass via (TGV) process of glass chip board production.LPKF CEO Klaus Fiedler told TheElec in an interview that the company signed a deal to ship its kits to a customer working on manufacturin

Bearing maker WONST is targeting an annual revenue of 100 billion won this year, CEO Lee Taek-won told TheElec.The company is aiming to list on the Korean bourse next year on the back of hitting the revenue target, Lee said.WONST had originally aimed to go public this year, deciding on Shinhan Secur

CGP Materials is aiming to reach 150 billion won in annual revenue by 2027 through the expansion of its semiconductor patterning material business.The electronic material firm said on Thursday that it has started construction of a new factory in Sejong City.CGP Materials CEO Park Chun-geun said duri