Samsung Electronics has secured stakes in a South Korean company that manufacturers pellicles used in semiconductor production.FST said on Tuesday that it has issued 1.52 million shares for Samsung to purchase. The Korean tech giant will secure a 6.9% stake in the company, becoming the third largest

Qualcomm said on Thursday that a slew of global brands have launched devices powered by its wireless audio solutions.The companies are: Audio Technica, AVIOT, Bang & Olufsen, Belkin, Cambridge Audio, Cleer, Earin, Edifier, Glidic, Jabra, JVC, Kakao Enterprise, Naver, Marshall, Sennheiser and Yamaha.

NXP on Thursday announced its integrated time-sensitive networking (TSN) solutions for industrial automation.The solutions support CC-Link IE TSN protocol, which combines gigabit Eternet bandwidth with TSN to strengthen time sharing communication, performance, security and functionality for industri

Intel and Google Cloud on Tuesday said they will collaborate on developing telco cloud reference architectures and solutions.These will allow telcos to accelerate the deployment of virtualized RAN and open RAN solutions, the pair said.They will also allow service providers to innovate for cloud nati

Kioxia and Western Digital announced that they have developed their Gen 6 162-layer 3D flash memory.The latest chip, thanks to a new architecture beyond the conventional eight-stagger memory hole array, has up to 10% greater lateral cell array density compared to the Gen 5, the pair said.The new fla

Xilinx on Tuesday announced a new family of network interface cards (NIC) for data centers.Alveo SN1000 is the industry’s first family of “composable” SmartNICs, the company said.Based on the Xilinx 16nm UltraScale Plus architecture, the SN1000 family of SmartNICs are powered by the low-latency Xili

Analog Devices and Volvo Cars said on Monday that Volvo XC40 Recharge pure electric SUV will feature Analog’s ICs that support battery management system (BMS) and Automotive Audio Bus (A2B).The ICs will traveling distance per a single charge, the pair said.It can be applied to hybrid and pure electr

Coasia said on Wednesday had the most number of engineers among its competitors within Samsung Foundry’s ecosystem.The company, combined with its subsidiary Coasia Semi, had 210 engineers, a Coasia spokesperson said.By contrast, Samsung Foundry’s other design house partners Hanatec, Alpha Holdings,

Chips&Media will launch its new high-resolution video IP product called Wave6 Series in March, TheElec has learned.The first product in the series, called Wave627 (encoder IP), will support AV1 and VVC(H.266) standards.The company will launch Wave637 (codec IP) in August and Wave617 (decoder IP) wit

Samsung said on Wednesday that it has developed a high bandwidth memory (HBM) that integrates AI processing.The company installed AI engines into memory banks of the DRAM to maximize parallel processing.This effectively shortens the distance data have to travel between the CPU and memory, which lead

The South Korean government has kicked off a program to offer semiconductor IP at discounted price to fabless companies.The Ministry of Trade. Industry and Energy said the program, called semiconductor IP usage support program, will give global semiconductor IP at discounted prices, build a semicond

Qualcomm on Tuesday unveiled two 5G Modem-RF Systems, Snapdragon X65 and Snapdragon X62.The Gen 4 Snapdragon X65 5G modem is the world’s first modem-RF system based on 3GPP Release 16. It provides download speed of up to 10Gbps, which means 33GB UHD film can be downloaded within 30 seconds.RF output

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

Japan’s Renesas Electronics said on Monday that it was in talks with UK’s Dialog Semiconductor to potentially acquire the firm.Dialog previously supplied power management IC to Apple. But the company saw sales decline starting in 2019 after Apple began using its own chips. Dialog was in talks with S

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

Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf said Thursday that he expects the shortage in foundry production capacity will continue up to the first half of 2021.The CEO told Reuters that the company sell more chips if it could produce more.Qualcomm reported the earnings for its fiscal first quarter (October to De

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it plans to expand the application of magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM).MRAM stores data in magnetic domains, unlike most RAMs that store them in electric charge or current flows.The company improved the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) function of its MRAM to make

Wafer fab equipment spending is expected to exceed US$70 billion in 2022, hitting an all time high from high demand for semiconductors, SEMI director Clark Tseng said.The fab equipment spending will reach US$66 billion this year, double that of US$30 billion in 2012.Spending will increase in wafer f

SK Hynix will apply peri under cell (PUC) technology to its next-generation phase-change RAM (PRAM), the company said on Wednesday.PRAM combines the advantages of DRAM and NAND flash. Intel retained its Optane business, which is based on PRAM technology, when it sold its NAND unit to SK Hynix. PRAM

Analog Devices’ country manager post for South Korea has been vacant for a couple of months, with the company saying it has now intention of naming someone to the post for the short-term.Previous Head of Korea, Hong Sa-kwak, stepped down on October 2020. Analog Devices’ Asia Pacific (APAC) arm was o