Auros Technology has won orders to supply overlay equipment for 8-inch wafers from multiple South Korean and Japanese chipmakers, TheElec has learned.The company’s 8-inch OL-100n was being evaluated by up to five companies based in the East Asian countries, sources said.The customers were considerin

Nextin CEO said the company was developing a machine to remove static electricity with its recently acquired firm Zisys.Nextin CEO Tae Hoon Park said during an interview with TheElec that this machine will be able to remove static electricity that was irremovable in previous machines during the extr

Neosem was currently developing a direct current (DC) tester to supply to a major chip firm, TheElec has learned.The tester is used to see whether wafers that completed the front-end process have the same electric characteristics as expected. It measures the input and output voltage of each device o

Chip firm Nemesis said on Monday that it plans to commence preclincal trials for the continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) sensor in September.The sensor will use a needle smaller than 10mm to check the glucose level of patients.This differs from conventional blood glucose monitoring sensors that draw

APACT said on Friday that it will acquire ATsemicon’s packaging business unit.The unit does semiconductor packaging and testing and APACT will take over the packaging part.ATsemicon’s customers include SK Hynix and other fabless chip firms.APACT recently built a second factory for packaging and is e

Spending on advanced packaging by chipmakers this year is expected to reach US$15 billion, according to analyst firm Yole Development.Out of that total, Intel will account for 32% with US$4.75 billion, a significant increase from US$3.5 billion last year.TSMC meanwhile will account for 27% with US$4

Schneider Electric unveiled its switchgear that doesn’t use sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) gas.The company unveiled its eco-friendly switchgear lineup AirSet at a press conference in Seoul on Thursday.Fluoride is widely used in the semiconductor sector to insulate heat but is harmful to the environment d

Fab equipment maker SEMCNS is aiming to win approval from Samsung for its ceramic space transformer (STF) used in CMOS image sensor (CIS) probe cards during testing.The company is quality testing the equipment to secure the approval by the first half of the year, sources said.Probe cards are used to

Fab material company Wonik QnC is planning to increase its spending to expand its factory in Taiwan, TheElec has learned. The company initially aimed to spend 17 billion won to expand its factory there during the second quarter, but recently decided to up it 30 billion won, people familiar with the

Chip design house Gaonchips said it plans to focus on developing IPs for automotive and AI chips.Company CEO Jung Kyu-dong said during the company’s press conference ahead of its IPO said demand for design house services from the semiconductor industry was rising as chipmakers are focusing on develo

Samsung has denied market concerns over the future of its memory and foundry chip businesses during the conference call for the first quarter of 2022 on Thursday.The South Korean tech giant was asked by an analyst about rumors that it could skip the development of 1b DRAM and go right to 1c.1b refer

SK Hynix said on Wednesday that it recorded 12.15 trillion won in revenue and 2.85 trillion won in operating profit during the first quarter.Revenue jumped by 43% from a year ago, while operating profit increased 116% over the same time period.It is SK Hynix’s best performance for the first quarter

LX Semicon saw its operating profit for the first quarter of 2022 jump thanks to the high demand for display driver IC (DDI).The fabless chip company said on Monday in its preliminary earning guidance that it recorded 585.1 billion won in revenue and 127.9 billion won in operating profit during the

ACM Research was planning to build a fab equipment factory in South Korea, TheElec has learned.The company recently opened a regional subsidiary called Korea ACM, which it wholly owns.ACM Research is a fab equipment maker that was founded in Silicon Valley in 1998 and listed on Nasdaq in 2017.The co

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) equipment maker ESOL is reviewing ways to secure an additional 12 billion won in investment, TheElec has learned.Last month, the company offered 68,000 new shares priced at 257,280 won per share to institutional investors for around 17.5 billion won in investment.ESOL is be

Samsung is planning to install fab equipment on its new advanced fab P3 at its Pyeongtaek plant early in May, TheElec has learned.The company is aiming to complete the construction of the fab within the second half of this year. In preparation, Samsung will be placing and installing equipment at the

Motion control company Movensys is aiming to expand into the display panel and lithium-ion battery markets.Company chairman of the board Yang Boo-ho told TheElec that the company is planning to upgrade its motion control solution with machine learning and data analysis to achieve this while also off

Semes, the chip fab equipment subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, said on Friday that it has recorded 3.12 trillion won in revenue and 353.3 billion won in operating profit for the entire year of 2021.It is the company’s best annual performance to date. Revenue and operating profit also increased 41%

Computing chip inspection equipment maker DI was considering developing energy storage systems (ESS) as its new growth engine, TheElec has learned.ESS is comprised of battery cells and power management systems and is used to store power.They are in high demand to be paired with new energy sources su

Auros Technology said on Monday that it has started the development of a new overlay measurement equipment aimed at use in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process.Overlay measurement equipment is used to check the alignment of circuit patterns between the top surface and the bottom surface of wafers.T