Samsung said on Thursday that it has developed a new chip packaging technology.Called H-Cube and developed together with Amkor Technology and Samsung Electro-Mechanics, the 2.5 dimension packaging technology can house logic chips and high bandwidth memories (HBM) on a silicon interposer, the tech gi

NC& said on Wednesday that it has recorded 33.58 billion won in revenue and 150 million won in operating income during the third quarter.It marks the first time for the firm to post over 30 billion won in quarterly revenue. It also returned to profitability compared to a year ago.NC& credited the pe

South Korean chip fabless firm Abov Semiconductor will acquire chip testing company Winpac.Winpac is an outsourced assembly and testing firm of SK Hynix and owned by liquid crystal display component maker TLI, which owns a majority stake.People familiar with the matter said TLI’s side has stressed t

Hanmi Semiconductor said on Wednesday that it will open a showroom at Suzhou, China to promote its brand of dual-chuck saw called micro SAW.It will be located at an industrial park in the Chinese city where Chinese outsourced assembly and testing companies JCET, Huatian Technology and Nantong Fujits

South Korean chip design house SemiFive is planning to acquire a fellow partner of Samsung Foundry Hanatec, TheElec has learned.If the deal succeeds, Hanatec will become the third design house company within three years that SemiFive has acquired.SemiFive will acquire enough shares for managerial ri

Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it has developed its first LPDDR5X DRAM.It used its 14-nanometer (nm) extreme ultra-violet (EUV) multi-layer process to develop the mobile DRAM, the company said.It used EUV on five of the layers which increased productivity for the chips, Samsung said.The LP

South Korean chip fabless company Neowine was developing its own AI chip design platform, its CEO said.Neowine CEO John H. Lee told TheElec that the IP and software platform will be called EONNX, or Embedded ONNX, which will be based on the open source AI software platform Open Neural Network Exchan

The US and China's trade row is continuing. Five years have passed since the inauguration of the Trump Administration that started the row but the two superpowers' economic competition isn't relenting even in the Biden era.The US-China trade row will undoubtedly affect South Korea's semiconductor bu

South Korean chip design company Coasia, a partner to Samsung Foundry, has supplied a sample of SoC to a cigarette company that plans to apply it to its e-cigarette, the company said on Tuesday.Once the sample is approved by the customer, the SoC will go into mass production, a senior executive of t

Worldwide semiconductor revenue hit its quarterly record during the third quarter of 2021, according to US’ Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).Revenue during the quarter was US$144.8 billion, the organization said, an increase of 27.6% year-on-year and 7.4% quarter-to-quarter.SIA analyzed the

Image sensor designer Pixelplus said on Tuesday that it plans to develop a sensor for water quality measurement with Thewavetalk.Thewavetalk develops water quality measurement devices under its Watertalk brand.The company plans to apply Pixelplus’ image sensor technology to its products. Water quali

SK Hynix said on Friday that it will be acquiring foundry company Key Foundry for 575.8 billion won.The purchase will double its 8-inch foundry production capacity, the South Korean memory maker said.It will acquire 100% of the shares of Key Foundry from their parent company Magnus Semiconductor thr

The combined revenue of the world’s top ten foundry companies is expected to exceed US$100 billion this year, according to analyst firm TrendForce.In 2022, their combined revenue will grow by 13.3% to reach US$117.69 billion, the firm said.The foundry industry is seeing high growth thanks to the inc

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it has recorded 73.98 trillion won in revenue and 15.82 trillion won in operating profit during the third quarter this year.Its operating margin rate was 21.4% during the quarter.Revenue was its best for a quarter ever while operating profit was its second-h

A Samsung president who heads the company’s memory business says collaboration between the material, component and fab equipment sectors is required for innovation in microchip fabrication.Samsung president Lee Jung-bae, who is also the chairman of Korea Semiconductor Industry Association, was speak

SK Hynix said on Tuesday that it recorded 11.8 trillion won in sales and 4.17 trillion won in operating profit during the third quarter this year.It is an increase of 45% and 220%, respectively, from the third quarter of 2020.The sales figure is SK Hynix’s best quarterly performance to date.The last

AI machine vision firm Twim is aiming to secure 200 billion won in sales in five years, its CEO told TheElec.Twim CEO Jeong Han-seop said the company started by offering rule-based inspection kits but has now expanded to deep learning-based AI inspection equipment, which allowed it to secure revenue

Overlay measurement kit maker Auros Technology said on Monday that it has developed a new package wafer warpage inspection kit that it has supplied a South Korean chip company.The new kit is called PWWIS-300 and can inspect 12-inch wafers for warpages.Wafers can warp during fabrication which can cau

Fabless chip company Solidvue will launch lidars using for use in mobile and autonomous vehicles in 2023 its CMOS lidar sensor IC technologies, the company CEO said.The firm was the only one in South Korea that can develop a CMOS lidar sensor IC, Solidvue CEO Jaehyuk Choi said.It will use its own te

The prices of epitaxial wafers that are used in logic chip production are expected to continue their current increase due to high demand.There are polished wafers and epitaxial wafers. Polished wafers are made out of polycrystalline silicon and are used mostly in memory chip production.Epitaxial waf