Fab equipment maker Wonik IPS was using multiple securities firms to purchase the shares of competitor APTC, TheElec has learned.Wonik IPS started buying listed shares of APTC in May and the move is ongoing, sources said.It is unknown how many shares Wonik IPS purchased in total for the past two mon

Nvidia was working to diversify its sourcing of HBM3 and 2.5D packages used in AI GPUs for data centers, TheElec has learned.The US chip giant was negotiating deals with potential suppliers, which includes Samsung, sources said.Currently, Nvidia, for its A100, H100, and other AI GPUs, uses TSMC for

South Korean AI startup Rebellions wants to launch alternatives to AI chips offered by market leader Nvidia.Rebellions CEO Park Sunghyun said the startup’s goal is to, within one to two years, find specific applications that it can offer AI chips that be used instead of those by Nvidia.Specifically,

Nvidia’s influence in the AI chip space is ever-growing, not the least thanks to the success of its GPU software CUDA.Amid this climate, South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI is aiming to carve its mark by developing both hardware and software.Unless chip companies have a software stack that can react

Managing the power efficiency of data centers is a large issue in the chip industry as trends such as AI and self-driving cars are causing exponential increases in the amount of data.Because of this, the amount of data formed in the past two years equaled that of around 90% of the data made througho

Fab equipment maker Neosem’s Gen 5 solid-state drive (SSD) inspection equipment has passed the quality test of a South Korean chip maker, TheElec has learned.This means Neosem will be supplying the equipment to the South Korean chip maker for the first time. The equipment maker’s main customer so fa

Samsung has appointed new heads of development for foundry and DRAM, TheElec has learned.Samsung’s chip division, called Device Solution, recently commenced reorganization of its executive vice president-level officials.CTO of its Foundry Business has been named Gitae Jeong, who was previously the h

The CEO of fab equipment maker APTC said in a letter to shareholders that the company will give it its all to grow amid signs of the global chip industry is seemingly in the road to recovery.APTC CEO Choi Woo-hyung’s 60 pages long letter is the company’s first under the CEO's name.The letter detaile

Samsung has outlined its schedule to produce 2-nanometer (nm) chips as the competition between global foundries intensifies.The South Korean tech giant on Wednesday said during Samsung Foundry Forum 2023 that it plans to manufacture 2nm chips for mobile applications in 2025; those for high-performan

The global chip foundry market seems to have hit its lowest point during the first half of this year.TSMC and sources based in South Korea TheElec talked to believe the market will start seeing demand recovery again in the third quarter of this year.The main driver of this recovery seems to be ChatG

Fab equipment maker APTC said on Wednesday that it has found that its shareholder list has been leaked by a securities firm.APTC, also known as Adaptive Plasma, said its shareholder list, shareholder addresses, how many shares they own, their phone numbers and nationality as of March 31 2022 was lea

China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies and other DRAM companies in Greater China are expected to see exponential growth in the coming years despite US sanctions against China, a South Korean professor said.This growth will be substantial enough to threaten the three-way dominance of the DRAM industry

Nextin’s latest equipment aimed at use in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process in semiconductor production is expected to be supplied to a customer later this year, TheElec has learned.The new equipment, called ResQ, will begin testing at a potential customer’s production line this month, sources said.

Fab equipment maker Protec is expected to see its sales expand as a contract that limited the sales of its laser assisted bonder (LAB) expired last month, TheElec has learned.LAB is used to attach the chip die on the board during packaging using a laser.Most chip dies are attached boards using infra

SK Hynix said on Tuesday that it has started verification of its latest Gen 5 (1b) 10-nanometer (nm) server DDR5 DRAM with Intel.Once approved, the new memory chip will be paired with Intel’s Xeon Scalable Platform server processors.SK Hynix said its latest DDR5 DRAM has a speed of 6.4Gbps and claim

BGF Ecomaterials said on Thursday that it has acquired semiconductor gas company KNW.It will acquire 42.76% stock in KNW for 63.5 billion won. At a later date, through a share offering, it will acquire an additional 3.92 million shares for 50 billion won to gain a total of 56.7% stock in KNW.KNW was

Samsung has formed a team to develop a 4F2(feature square) DRAM, TheElec has learned.If the tech giant succeeds, it will be able to reduce the surface of die by 30% compared to 6F2 DRAM, sources said.Memory chipmakers attempted to commercialize 4F2 ten years ago but failed at the time.But now Samsun

Dongjin Semichem has successfully reduced the sensitivity of its photoresist (PR) for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) processes in chip production.Research into EUV PR in recent times is focused on improving throughput, Dongjin Semichem manager Kim Jeong-shik told an audience during SEMI SMC Korea 2023 in

Tokyo Electron is expected to install the demo version of its new hybrid oxide etcher at a place designated by Samsung Electronics’ chip research group, Semiconductor Research & Development, TheElec has learned.The fab equipment maker’s new product is called hybrid because it uses the traditional RF

On March 2, multiple automotive chip companies saw their share price drop on the New York Stock Exchange. STMicroelectronics and Wolfspeed saw their prices drop 2.43% and 6.98%, receptively. The cause was Tesla, which announced on the prior day that it plans to substantially reduce the number of sil