Registering clock driver chip developer One Semiconductor will begin production of RCD for server DDR5 DRAM during the second half of the year.Company CEO Kim Chang-hyun told TheElec that One Semiconductor was already manufacturing DDR4 RCD as of last year after passing all required quality tests.It

South Korea is the largest producer of memory chips. Samsung and SK Hynix combined has a 70% market share in the DRAM market and around 50% in NAND flash.However, they don’t dominate all technologies related to memory chips. For instance, for controllers used in NAND, the pair rely heavily on compan

Chipmaker Magnachip is planning to suspend production at its factory in Gumi, South Korea for a week starting on Saturday.This is unprecedented for a chipmaker as fabs are usually run 24/7 for the full year.Sources said Magnachip was doing so from its high inventory and low demand.Power will still b

Chip component maker KNJ has become a director vendor of silicon carbide (SiC) focus ring to chipmaker SK Hynix, TheElec has learned.Prior to being selected as a direct vendor, KNJ was below in the value chain and supplied unfinished SiC rings to SiC ring suppliers of the chipmaker.SiC rings are use

South Korean blank mask maker S&S Tech is seeing high demand for its blank mask thanks to the high interest and development of AI chips spurred by ChatGPT.Blank masks are used to make photo masks, which are used during the lithography process in chip production where the pattern of the chips is prin

Samsung’s design partners for its chip foundry business saw their operating profits halved in 2022.Samsung Foundry’s Design Solution Partners ADTechnology, Gaonchips, and Coasia saw their revenue and operating margin rate impacted heavily by the global economic downturn.ADTechnology, Samsung’s large

SK Hynix faced problems this month during DRAM production due to the high-k material having a quality issue, TheElec has learned.The zirconium (Zr) high-k material that was supplied by SK Trichem had impurities in them, sources said.This caused some of SK Hynix’s production equipment at its DRAM fab

DB Hitek said on Wednesday that it recorded 1.67 trillion won in revenue and 768.7 billion won in operating profit for the entire year of 2022.Revenue and operating profit jumped 38% and 93%, respectively, from the previous year.Operating margin rate stood at an impressive 46% __ close to foundry ma

South Korean AI startup FuriosaAI is planning to launch an AI chip that will support ChatGPT next year, its CEO told TheElecFuriosaAI CEO June Paik claimed that this second-generation AI chip of the company will be the most powerful chip available for the operation of ChatGPT.The particular chip boa

Meta will be collaborating with South Korean component makers SK Hynix and LG Display to develop MicroOLED, TheElec has learned.LG Display, along with Samsung Display, is a leading OLED display panel maker.It has recently signed a collaboration agreement with South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix f

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) company Park Systems is aiming to increase its revenue by 30% this year.Park Systems director Cho Sang-joon told TheElec that the company expects the goal will be met despite the downturn of the chip market.Last year the company recorded 122.1 billion won in revenue and

EUV equipment maker ESOL will launch a prototype of its second-generation EUV equipment this year, CEO Kim Byung-gook told TheElec in an interview.Kim said the company last year secured 35 billion won in funding and most of it will be going into research and development.ESOL has launched four produc

Dongjin Semichem is developing two new EUV photoresists, one inorganic and another dry.The company was developing the inorganic EUV PR and dry EUV PR with a major customer, sources said.Last year, the company already launched an organic EUV PR.The new ones are being developed for application in more

Chip production equipment maker Nextin is aiming to double its share in the global market for dark field inspection equipment.Nextin CEO Park Tae-hoon told TheElec on Wednesday that it was aiming to increase its share to 10% this year from last year’s 5%.This is despite the current downturn of the g

Chip and display panel component maker TSI was close to commercializing probe cards for DRAM chips, TheElec has learned.It was conducting quality tests with two main customers for the cards that will be finished within the first quarter, sources said.It had already completed a quality test with anot

The adoption of DDR5 used in server DRAM is expected to be slower than thought this year, according to analyst firm Omdia.Omdia said it expected DDR5 to account for 28% of the server DRAM market but has now adjusted this to 13%.The analyst firm said this was because the recovery of the server DRAM m

Dry vacuum pump firm Lot Vacuum is conducting quality tests for its equipment with two global chip companies, TheElec has learned.One is an overseas foundry company and another is a memory chipmaker.These quality tests started last year and Lot Vacuum is expected to win the companies and customers t

Inspection equipment maker TSI Korea has supplied its dual DDI bump pattern inspection equipment to LB Lusem.TSI Korea CEO Lee Chul-hee told TheElec that this means it has supplied its equipment to the top two South Korean DDI chip on film makers, the other being STECO, which it began supplying in 2

Dry vacuum pump company Lot Vacuum is aiming for an annual revenue of 250 billion won this year from its solar panel business.Company vice chairman Kim Ho-sik told TheElec that it is expecting double the sales from 2022 from the business, which is showing high growth.Kim, an expert in production equ

Samsung won’t spend fewer wafers or halt production lines in its chip production despite the recent downturn of the global memory chip market, the company said on Tuesday.The company’s chip business reported an operating income of 270 billion won for the fourth quarter of 2022, its lowest in ten yea