Semiconductor IP company Chips&Media posted 15.4 billion won in sales and 2.38 billion won in operating profit in 2020, the company said.It is a drop of 4.6% and 33.8%, respectively, from 2019.The company said most of it sales come from the US and China. While China showed a quick recovery from the

SK Hynix will invest in facilities conservatively this year, the company’s CFO said at its conference call for the fourth quarter.CFO Jongwon Noh said the company will invest carefully, considering the persistent uncertainties from the COVID-19 pandemic and unfavorable exchange rate.Capital expendit

SK Hynix posted higher than expected operating income for 2020 despite price drops in memory semiconductors.The company said Friday it has posted 31.9 trillion won in sales and 5.01 trillion won in operating income for the full year of 2020.The figures are a rise of 18% and 84%, respectively, from t

Yes Power Technix said on Thursday that it has received 26.8 billion won in funding from SK Holdings, the holding company of SK Group.SK Group will gain a 33.6% take in Yes Power Technix through the deal.Yes Power Technix, an affiliate of YEST, is the only company in South Korea that can design and

Qualcomm on Tuesday unveiled its fourth-generation Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit Platforms.The new chipset for automobile comes two years after the third-generation was launched back in January 2019.Previous dashboards of cars showed only the speed, fuel and driving information but Qualcomm’s platfo

Samsung Electronics is planning to expand the production of CMOS image sensors (CIS) by 20% this year, TheElec has learned.Last year, Samsung put in 100,000 wafers per month for the production of CIS. In 2021, the company plans to expand this to between 120,000 to 130,000 wafers per month.The South

Nvidia will expand its GeForce Now game streaming service to Australia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia later this year, the company said.GeForce Now offers hundreds of games from Nvidia’s data center in North Amercia and Europe for PC gamers. It supports PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, Android and iOS devices.Aust

Germany has asked Taiwan to persuade its local manufacturers to help ease a shortage of semiconductors in the automobile sector, Reuters reported on Sunday.German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier asked his Taiwanese counterpart Wang Mei-hua to address the issue in talks with TSMC, the world’s largest

The South Korean government and local companies together will spend 300 billion won for ten years to foster talents in system semiconductors, South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Thursday.They will also create system semiconductor design majors in local universities.By 2022,

Intel will be manufacturing 7-nanometer (nm) CPU on its own starting in 2023, company CEO Bob Swan said at its fourth quarter conference call on Thursday.The company has been increasing research and development spending to develop 7nm since the second half of 2020, Swan said, and it was confident th

Texas Instrument on Thursday unveiled its wireless battery management system (BMS) concept at an online press conference in South Korea.The company is aiming to commercialize the solution in 2024.Texas Instrument will be supplying its Simplelink CC2662R-Q1 wireless microcontroller unit (MCU), BQ7961

Qualcomm launched its new application processor, the Snapdragon 870, on Tuesday.The process is an upgraded version of Snapdragon 865 Plus launched earlier.The new AP clocks 3.2GHz, higher than its predecessor’s 3.09GHz. Both are made in the 7nm process.Snapdragon 870’s Kryo 585 CPU has one Cortex-A7

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that it will globally launch its consumer solid-state drive (SSD), 870 EVO.The company said 870 EVO was aimed at PC users looking for an upgraded PC experience as well as contents creators and IT professionals.The SSD use 128-layer V-NAND and the latest MKX cont

Semiconductor package and test company Winpac begin uMCP packaging for SK Hynix, TheElec has said on Tuesday.uMCP combines mobile DRAM (LPDDR) and NAND Flash (in this case Universal Flash Storage) into one product. It has faster than eMCP and consumes less power. The chip is used in smart devices su

Broadcom is supplying its Wi-Fi 6E chip BCM4389 to Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphone, the company said.The S21 Ultra is the first ever phone to support Wi-Fi 6E.Wi-Fi 6E adds 6GHz spectrum to Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax). This allows Wi-Fi 6E to support up to 2.4Gbps speed, double that of Wi-Fi 6’s 1.2Gbps.

Intel announced on Wednesday that CEO Bob Swan will step down on February 15 and be replaced with Vmware CEO Pat Gelsinger.Swan joined Intel as a CFO in 2016, he was CFO at eBay for 9 years prior to joining. After previous CEO Brian Krzanich was fired in 2018, Swan took over as interim CEO for seven

Western Digital on Thursday launched four 4TB portable solid-state drives (SSD) aimed at consumers.They are: Sandisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD, Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD, WD Black P50 Game Drive SSD and WD My Passport SSD.The new SSDs will be optimal for use by gamers, content creators, those who

NXP on Tuesday introduced a slew of technologies at CES 2021.These include its technologies in Wi-Fi6, radar, ultra wide band (UWB), time-sensitive networking (TSN) and computer numeric control (CNC) machines.NXP has Wi-Fi6 and Wi-Fi 6E chipsets that can make life more convenience at homes, which ar

Intel announced its 10nm SuperFin processor Alder Lake at CES 2021.The chip giant also unveiled its 11th Gen vPro platform, 11th Gen mobile H processors and N-series 10nm Pentium Silver and Celeron processorsThe 11th Gen vPro platformed is aimed at the enterprise. It uses Intel’s 10nm SuperFin techn

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday launched its 5nm processor Exynos 2100.The chip will power the company’s Galaxy S21 smartphones, which will be unveiled on January 14.Exynos 2100 integrates the CPU, GPU and 5G modem chip.Samsung said the chip consumes 20% less power compared to chips made in the 7nm p