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

Semiconductor testing firm APACT said on Tuesday that it recorded 49.6 billion won in sales and 6.5 billion won in operating income for the entire year of 2020. Its net income for the year was 6.7% billion won.Sales increased 6% from 2019 while operating income declined 19.8% from the previous year.

South Korean fabless semiconductor companies recorded noticeably polarizing earnings in 2020.TheElec collected earnings of the top 17 fabless companies, including design houses and chipless firms, and based on revenue in South Korea.The four top companies, Silicon Works, ADTechnology, Abov Semicondu

SK Hynix’s acquisition of Intel’s NAND business unit has received approval from the US government.The South Korean memory maker said on Friday that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) gave the go-ahead for the deal.SK Hynix already received the approval from the Federal

Samsung’s suspension of its semiconductor plant in Austin due to power outage will increase prices of solid-state drives (SSD), market research firm TrendForce says.Client SSD prices will increase between 3 to 8% in the second quarter compared to the first quarter, the firm said. Prices of enterpris

Dongjin Semichem and ENF Technology have sent requests to their customers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to increase the price of thinners by up to 50%, TheElec has learned.The companies are asking for the raise to come in to affect starting in April. Samsung and SK are running simulations to cons

The top three fab equipment manufacturers in South Korea are expected to post record earnings in 2021 from record spending in the global semiconductor and display industries.Semes, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, recorded its highest ever sales in 2020. Its previous record was 2.03 trillion won

SK Hynix begun mass production of 18GB LPDDR5 mobile DRAM, the company said on Monday.The chips will be supplied to Asus for ROG(Republic of Gamers) 5 gaming smartphone.SK Hynix said the new chip can run at up to 6,400Mbps, which is 20% faster than its predecessors that supported to up to 5,500Mbps.

Printed circuit board (PCB) market was still a blue ocean, with South Korean companies strong in areas such as semiconductors, the chairman of Korea Printed Circuit Association (KPCA) said.KPCA chairman Baek Tae-il said he was shocked to learn that there was a general perception in South Korea that

Samsung Electronics’ application of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology on its latest DRAM has showed fabrication benefits in scaling, expediting production and improved performance yields, according to reverse engineering analysis firm Techinsights.Samsung applied EUV technology on 1zn

SK Hynix said on Wednesday that it will be spending 4.75 trillion won (around US$4.3 billion) up to December 1, 2025 to procure extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment.The South Korean chip giant will be purchasing them from ASML of the Netherlands.The amount is equal to 7.34% of its total a

Semiconductor testing solution company TSE said on Wednesday that it is supplying die carrier socket for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) testing to a global memory manufacturer.HBM are mostly supplied in die form, instead of in a molding package. The last testing on the good was using a probe card on th

Samsung Electronics’ president of its memory business has been named the chairman of the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association (KSIA).Lee Jung-bae will become the 12th chairman of the association, starting in March until February 2022, unless there are objections.Lee, a graduate of Seoul National

The recent hike in prices of helium gas is likely to negatively affect the profitability of semiconductor companies.According to the Korea Customs Service on Friday, helium gas import price was US$82,200 per a metric tonne in 2020, a 44% rise from 2019.Helium gas are used as coolers during semicondu

Key Foundry said on Tuesday that it will offer its third-generation 0.18 micrometer Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) process to customers.BCD process combines bipolar process that controls analog signals, CMOS to control digital signals and DMOS for high power processing, into one chip.It is mainly used to p

SK Hynix has agreed with its labor union to give 10% of its operating income as bonuses to employees going forward.The company also agreed to allow employees to decide on their stock ownership scheme, the company said on Tuesday.Previously, SK Hynix have given bonuses based on what it calls economic

Auros Technology said on Monday that it was close to winning a new order from China within the month.A company spokesperson said results remained to be seen but the situation has been positive up to now.If Auros win the contract, it will be supplying its DRAM production equipment.Company CEO Lee Jun

SK Hynix has vowed to provide employees with stock ownership plan and improvement in its profit sharing plan on Thursday amid backlash by employees from low bonuses.The company has reached an agreement with labor union. SK Hynix offered three proposition and the union agreed. The three were: to use

SK Hynix said on Thursday that it plans to install more water scrubbers in the cooling systems at its chip factories.Water scrubbers are used to block gas and chemicals formed during chip production from being released to the atmosphere. Catalysts and water are used during this process. SK Hynix sai

SK Hynix said on Wednesday that the company’s ultimate aim for its semiconductor fabs are to make them fully autonomous.Company manager Jeong Yu-in said its 300mm wafer fab were currently Level 3 to 4 in autonomy. SK Hynix will need to collaborate with the equipment industry and academia to get clos