Hyundai Mobis has succeeded in the development of engine control integrated semiconductor, a company engineer said.The company is also reviewing potential development of a high voltage power management IC that can withstand 1500V.Hyundai Mobis has been collaborating with an oversea chip firm to deve

Sumitomo Chemical is planning to build a ArF photoresist factory in South Korea.Its subsidiary Dongwoo Fine-Chem will build the factory at its Iksan plant.The new factory will start operations in 2024.The material is used in advanced semiconductor production.Japan’s Nikkei said the chemical firm is

LG InnoTek CEO Jeong Cheol-dong will become the next chairman of the Korea Printed Circuit Association (KPCA), TheElec has learned.It is the first time that a CEO of a major conglomerate such as Samsung and LG to take the post.After he becomes chairman, Jeong will work to foster the local printed ci

The US Treasury Department said on Monday that the acquisition of Magnachip by a Chinese private equity firm posed "risks to national security", according to a report by Reuters.Wise Road Capital in March agreed to acquire the system chip maker based in South Korea for US$1.4 billion.The deal has be

Printed circuit board (PCB) maker Daeduck Electronics has liquidated its factory in the Philippines, TheElec has learned.The factory had manufactured low value automotive boards. Daeduck is ending the business due to low profitability.The company entered Philippines in the mid-1990s to save costs bu

ISC has launched a new silicon rubber socket that can be used to test large surfaced semiconductor packages.iSC-XF can be used to test both CPU and GPU. The company said it was the only firm to launch a testing socket that uses silicon rubber.The South Korean firm is hoping it can replace the widely

Chip testing firm APACT said on Thursday that it will spend 5 billion won to develop automotive chip testers.The company is expected to purchase equipment from Japan’s Adavantest.The equipment will be placed at its second factory at Eumseong.APACT that it plans to expand into non-memory equipment wi

Samsung had sent a new confidentiality agreement to its semiconductor and component partners in July, TheElec has learned.The agreement asks for stricter security measures for sensitive technologies and includes a financial penalty for breaching the contract, sources say.The contract was written by

Samsung said on Tuesday that it will spend 240 trillion won in the next three years in strategic businesses, which includes computing chips, biopharmaceuticals and next-generation telecommunications.The move will create 40,000 new jobs and 180 trillion won out of the total sum will be spent in South

South Korean chip packaging and testing companies posted mixed results in their second quarter earnings.Those working with system semiconductors saw earnings improve substantially while their counterparts specializing in memory chips recorded lackluster results.This is due to SK Hynix doing more of

Mecaro president Lee Jong-soo will be joining Jusung Engineering around the end of the month, TheElec has learned.Lee will become president of Jusung’s semiconductor business, replacing Roh Jae-sung.He was previously an executive at South Korean chip giant SK Hynix.Jusung chairman Hwang Chul-joo is

Near half of South Korean display equipment makers have recorded operating loss during the second quarter of the year.TheElec collected data of 30 related companies, with 13 of them reporting operating loss during the quarter.Meanwhile, nine of of the 30 companies that made a profit saw their earnin

Ram Tech said on Thursday that it is actively working to go through its plan to build a new factory at the city of Dangjin.The company will communicate with the local government, which recently rejected its factory plan, to take the project back on track.Ram Tech has succeeded in producing hydrogen

Printed circuit board maker Daeduck Electronics said on Wednesday that it has supplied its first flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) to its customer.The company’s new FC-BGA factory at Ansan went live, the firm said.FC-BGA is a wireless semiconductor package board. It is used in high-value products s

Semiconductor IP firm Chips&Media said on Wednesday that it has signed an IP contract with a US-based mobile semiconductor company.In 2019, the firm had signed a similar contract with one of the so-called FAANG companies __ Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google.Chips&Media said it is expecting

South Korean equipment makers posted mixed results in the second quarter.Fab equipment makers recorded strong earnings during the quarter, while display equipment makers posted poor performances.Multiple fab equipment makers recorded triple digit growths and marked record earnings in the second quar

LG InnoTek will procure printed circuit boards (PCB) from Terranix, an affiliate of Youngpoong Group, for its automotive LED brand Nexlide, TheElec has learned.The South Korean component maker is attempting to diversify its supply chain for automotive LED.Nexlide is used in over 60 car models worldw

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Thursday that it has developed two new multi layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).ADAS are used for autonomous driving. The kinds of ADAS include lane keeping assistant system, surround view monitor and smart cruise control.M

Optical inspection equipment makers are facing difficulty securing machine vision cameras due to a shortage caused by high demand, TheElec has learned.Lead time for the cameras has been usually around eight weeks but this has been extended up to 52 weeks, multiple people working at equipment compani

Key Foundry has developed a new semiconductor design toolkit that it says will shorten development time for chip firms.The firm had previously supplied process design kits (PDK) that support chip design tools provided by Synopsys, Candence and Siemens.The latest PDK Version E adds PDK setup environm