The South Korean government is aiming to foster the production of silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductor.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Thursday that the country will aim to develop over five commercial power chips by 2025.Power chips that are made wi

Global semiconductor IP giant Arm has unveiled its new Armv9 architecture on Wednesday. It is first new architecture in 10 years since the launch of Armv8.New chips designed with Armv9 will be launched later this year.Arm said it strengthened digial signal processing (DSP) and machine learning (ML)

A former president of Samsung Electronics told an industry seminar on Tuesday that South Korea needs a national strategy so that the local semiconductor industry can leap forward again.Skylake Investment CEO Daeje Chin, who formerly headed Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor business and was a Minist

Prices of DRAM and NAND flash in March remained in the same level as they were in January, according to DRAMeXchange.Average fixed prices of PC DRAM (DDR4 8Gb) was US$3 in March, the same as January.DRAM prices dropped throughout at end of 2020, but increased 5.26% from the previous month in January

South Korean chip giant SK Hynix on Wednesday has named a new co-CEO.SK Telecom vice chairman Park Jung-ho was newly named co-CEO by the board.Park will be in charge of building the corporate culture and drawing up long-term strategy to increase SK Hynix’ global competence, the company said.Current

Production at Samsung Electronics’ chip plant in Austin, Texas has normalized as of last week after cold weathers there halted production for six weeks.A Samsung spokesperson said operation was returning to levels prior to the halt.The company was forced to shutdown operation of its factory last mon

SK Hynix will focus on improving the profitability of its NAND flash business going forward, the company CEO said on Tuesday at its shareholders’ meeting.The South Korean memory maker invested in Kioxia in 2018. Last year, it announced that it would be acquiring Intel’s NAND business unit.SK Hynix C

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday dropped its antitrust case against Qualcomm instead of taking it to the Supreme Court.The FTC first filed the complaint against the US chip giant in 2017. The commission accused Qualcomm of having a monopoly in baseband chips.It said the company’s prac

Coasia said on Monday at it shareholders’ meeting that it strengthen its camera module business this year.It will also focus on expanding its system semiconductor business, which it started in 2020, the company said.Coasia will take part in the management of Coasia Optics, formerly called Diostech,

System semiconductor startup Qualitas said on Monday that it will develop an 112Gb/s Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) IP aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) and data center applications.Companies such as Cadence, Synopsys, Rambus, Marvell, Credo and Alphawave are competing fiercely in SerDes IP. Q

The top ten fabless chip design companies last year saw their sales grow 26.4% year-on-year, according to market research firm TrendForce.The pandemic, which “seemed at first poised to devastate” the chip design industry, led to spike in notebook computers and networking products, the firm said.Eigh

South Korea fabless firm Ranix is aiming to launch security chips for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) and Internet of Things (IoT).A company spokesperson said Friday that it is aiming to receive certification from the government and security institutes for its V2X chip called RS2522, once development fi

Samsung has developed a 512GB DDR5 memory module and is collaborating with Intel in the transition to DDR5.The company said Thursday that its latest memory supports data transfer rate of up to 7,200Mbps, double that of DDR4. This means two 30GB UHD movie can be processed within a second, Samsung sai

Applied Materials’ plan to acquire Kokusai Electric has effectively collapsed as the company failed to secure approval from the Chinese government by March 19.The US company will now likely have to pay a termination fee to KKR, the owner of Kukusai.Applied Materials had signed the contract to buy Ko

Intel is planning to spend US$20 billion into building two new factories in Arizona, while restarting its foundry business.Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said on Tuesday that the foundry market will grow to be worth US$100 billion in 2025. The US chip giant will secure production facilities in Europe and U

South Korean system semiconductor company Coasia has received the Supplier Quality certification for its LED modules from Hyundai Motor Company.The certification will open Coasia to win more orders from the Korean automobile giant and global customers.Coasia previously received the certification for

Silicon Works has supplied its chips to German car giant Daimler, the company said on Tuesday.The application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) combines a video processor for displays and timing controller (T-Con) into one. It is aimed at dashboards and center information displays (CID).The chip wa

The CEO of SK Hynix said on Sunday the importance of memory will become more important in the era of digital transformation.Company CEO Lee Seok-hee, speaking at the 2021 IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), said the company will overcome various material, structure and reliabili

Hanwha Techwin has started development of 8-nanometer (nm) system-on-a-chip (SoC) for CCTVs this year, TheElec has learned.The company is aiming to reduce reliance on China’s HiSilicon, which has previously supplied the CCTV chips.Hanwha is using South Korean design house company for the design. Sam

Renesas Electronics has suffered a fire in its facilities over the weekend that will likely exasperate the ongoing global chip shortage that is affecting automobile production.The company said its N3 building at its Naka plants in Japan suffered fire on Friday. The fire was put down in around five h