Global fab equipment spending will reach US$68.8 billion this year, according to SEMI.This is a rise of 16% compared to 2019 and highest figure ever.Fab equipment will continue to rise in the next two years: it will reach US$72.1 billion in 2021 and US$76.1 billion in 2022, SEMI said.Front-end equip

SK Hynix’s foundry factory in Wuxi, China has started operations.According to local media Wuxi Daily, SK Hynix’ subsidiary, Sk Hynix System IC, held a factory production ceremony on December 12.SK Hynix System IC’s factory can handle 8-inch wafers. China has over a thousand fabless companies.Accordi

Samsung Electronics made minor changes in the company’s top posts in its annual reshuffle announced on Wednesday.The company said it will retain its three CEOs Kim Ki-nam of device solutions, Kim Hyun-suk of consumer electronics and Koh Dong-jin of IT and mobile.EVP Jung-bae Lee was promoted to pres

Samsung Electronics will expand the application of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology in DRAM production, the company said at its investor forum held on Monday.It will also apply double-stack technology for its 3D NAND flash to cement its leadership position ahead of rivals, the company said.Samsu

The Honor smartphone brand will own only 2% market share in terms of shipment in 2021, according to market research firm TrendForce.Huawei’s market share is expected to drop from 14% this year to 4% in 2021, the research firm also said.The Chinese tech giant is having difficult procuring key compone

Simulation solution company Ansys said it achieved new certifications of its suite of semiconductor design solutions for all Samsung Foundry FinFET orocess nodes.Samsung added Ansys RedHawk-SC to the certified suite. It will help the development of efficient and highly reliable chips for use in 5G m

Semiconductor materials company RFsemi will start its own microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) foundry business, the company said.MEMS utilizes semiconductor production process to integrate ultra-small, micrometer-sized mechanical components and circuits on silicon wafers.Microphones made with this

Samsung Electronics is considering investing into its 200mm semiconductor wafer production lines to make it semi-autonomous, TheElec has learned.The conglomerate’s 300mm wafer lines are currently fully automated. Wafers are transferred from chamber to chamber using over head transport machines.Howev

Ex-Hynix employees were collaborating with the local Chinese government at Chengdu to acquire GlobalFoundaries’ factory there, according to local media reports.Local company Jinsemi, which has former Hynix Semiconductor vice president Choi Jin-seok as CEO, and the Chengdu city government has a joint

The global foundry market will show its strongest growth in six years in 2020 thanks to demand for 5G mobile chips, according to research firm IC Insights.The pure foundry market will grow by 19% year over year this year to US$66.7 billion, the firm said. In 2014 the market grew by 18% year over yea

Telechips will began development of a semiconductor chip for use in advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) for autonomous cars, the company said.The neural processing unit (NPU) based ADAS neural dolphin application processor will began development in October at the earliest, Telechips said.The ch

Nextin will challenge KLA in the global semiconductor inspection equipment market, the CEO of the South Korean company said on Thursday.CEO Tae Hoon Park said the company will strengthen its technology to compete with KLA, the US company that dominates in dark-field inspection equipment. In South Ko

3D stacking technology will lead the semiconductor packaging market in the next five years, according to research firm Yole Developpement.Advanced semiconductor packaging market was worth US$29 billion in 2019 but this will grow by an average of 6.6% per year to be worth US$42 billion in 2025, the f

Fab equipment spending will hit record numbers in 2021 thanks to the growth of the memory market, according to SEMI.Fab equipment spending in 2020 will increase 8% from a year prior to US$63.2 billion.Next year, this will increase by 13% year over year to reach US$65.5 billion, SEMI said.Demand from

DB HiTek said Thursday that it has successfully developed a high-performance microphone based on micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS). The microphone had a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of 65dB, the company said at the online MEMS & Sensor Forum hosted by SEMI.Jung Min-Hyun, a developer at DB HiTek

Samsung Electronics marked 8.15 trillion won in operating profits and 52.97 trillion won in sales in the second quarter of 2020, the company said on Thursday.It is a rise of 23.5% and drop of 5.6%, respectively, year over year.Samsung’s semiconductor business contributed the lion’s share in operatin

Investment into semiconductor equipment this year will rise 6% from the previous year’s US$59.6 billion to US$63.2 billion this year, SEMI said.This will grow in further to over US$70 billion next year, which will be the highest ever to date, the organization said.Wafer fabrication equipment will se

DB Group is in fierce debate internally on how to proceed with the factory expansion plan for its semiconductor contract making affiliate DB HiTek, sources within the group told TheElec on Thursday.DB HiTek CEO Choi Chang-sik, who has led the company since 2012, is arguing for a new 300mm wafer fact

DB HiTek CEO and president Choi Chang-sik has been promoted to vice chairman, DB Group said.Choi, born in 1954, graduated from Seoul National University with Mater and Bachelor degrees in Material Engineering and joined DB Metal. He then moved to Samsung Electronics and worked there for 29 years, be

Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong has visited the conglomerate’s key semiconductor site and stressed the risk ahead for the business, Samsung said on Friday.Lee visited the semiconductor research lab at its Hwaseong plant and met with senior executives there.The vice chairman and the ex