Applied Materials and BE Semiconductor Industries (Besi) will collaborate in developing die-based hybrid boding equipment solution, the companies aid.The two will collaborate in developing the co-development program as well as a Center of Excellence (COE) for the program.The pair will each offer the

Camera module suppliers to Samsung Mobile saw their operating income plummet in the third quarter of 2020.This starkly contrasts with Samsung Mobile’s 50% surge in operating income for the quarter __ which likely shows that the Korean tech giant benefited from hefty cuts in module unit prices.Mcnex

SK Hynix has posted operating profit of 1.29 trillion won and sales of 8.12 trillion won in the third quarter.It is a rise of 175% and 18.9%, respectively, year-on-year, the South Korean firm said.Net income also stood a 1.07 trillion won.Huawei’s inventory buildup prior to US sanctions taking effec

SK Nexilis’ fifth factory at Jeongeup will began production in January, 2022, the company CEO said.Company CEO Kim Young-tae said at the company’s third quarter conference call that the factory will wrap up process change notification with its customer by the end of 2021, and begun selling copper fo

South Korean telecoms component maker Ace Technologies will supply ceramic filters for 5G equipment to a global telecom equipment maker.It will began supplying the filters in the first half of 2021 after distributing the volume with other selected suppliers, it said.The deal is worth 100 billion won

Semes, the semiconductor and display equipment making subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, is expected to post over 2 trillion won in full year sales for 2020, the company CEO told TheElec.Semes CEO Kang Chang-jin said the company has already surpassed the 2 trillion won mark as of end of October.This

Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and other major TV vendors are planning to launch miniLED TVs in 2021.MiniLED TVs will likely makeup the premium segment of liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs, which is still the dominant technology in the global TV market.MiniLED is being touted as the next-generat

Alpha Holdings signed an 8-nanometer (nm) multiproject wafer design service contract with subsidiary Alpha Solutions.The contract is to certify HDMI2.1 and DP PHY IP in development by Alpha Solutions for 8nm.Alpha Solutions will be able to gain a foothold in 8nm semiconductor IP market through the c

LG Chem will invest US$500 million more into its factory at Nanjing, China.The South Korean energy giant held an investment ceremony with officials of Nanjing city at Yancheng during a local tradeshow.LG Chem currently operates two factories at Nanjing. The second factory is being expanded from its

Samsung Electronics has invested around 74 billion won into four local semiconductor material, component and equipment companies.The companies are KCTech, Mico Ceramics, LOTVacuum and New Power Plasma __ Samsung put in equity investments of 20.7 billion won, 21.6 billion won, 18.9 billion won and 12

Semiconductor component and material firm Mecaro said on Monday it will acquire semiconductor special valve maker KVTS.KVTS was founded in 2016 and has grown an average 18.8% per year up to 2019. It produces semiconductor valves, RTP lamp housing and HOT N2 and supply them to global semiconductor an

LG Chem has invested only in batteries with axis longer than 600mm this year, TheElec has learned.Making battery cells longer this way will increase energy density and lower cost at the same time, people familiar with the matter said.LG Chem’s battery CAPEX this year will be 3 trillion won. Excludin

Samsung Electronics has launched its Galaxy device locating service SmartThings Find.Consumers can use the SmartThings app to locate their Galaxy smartphones, tablets, smartwatches and ear buds.Devices that are offline from network or Bluetooth can be located.Devices registered to SmartThings Find w

Sales of Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Note20 series seem lower than expected, TheElec has learned.Samsung Mobile only produced around 70% of what it planned to produced for the month of October, people familiar with the matter said.Samsung aimed to produce just short of 900,000 units of the Note20 se

Finnish telecoms giant Nokia saw its shares on the New York Stock Exchanges plummet 17.28% on October 29 after its third quarters earnings announcement.The company reported operating income of 350 million euros and sales of 5.294 billion euros for the quarter.It was a drop of 7% in sales from a year

Cosmo AM&T has succeeded in turning a profit in the third quarter of 2020.This is thanks to expanded supply for cathode materials for electric vehicle (EV) batteries.The company posted 3.3 billion won in operating income and 46 billion won in sales in the third quarter.It was a slight decline in sal

Simulation solution company Ansys said it achieved new certifications of its suite of semiconductor design solutions for all Samsung Foundry FinFET orocess nodes.Samsung added Ansys RedHawk-SC to the certified suite. It will help the development of efficient and highly reliable chips for use in 5G m

Battery production equipment maker CIS will start development of all solid-state battery production lines, the company said on Monday.The company was named to lead the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy’s national projects to development solid-state battery’s electrode plate and cell production

Prices of DRAM and NAND flash memories nosedived in October, likely due to the US sanctions against Huawei taking into effect.According to DRAMeXchange, fixed prices of PC DDR4 8Gb fell 8.9% in October compared to September to US$2.85.This differs from August and September when the price remained st

Semiconductor testing equipment maker Exicon is expanding its supply of DDR5 DRAM testing kit to Samsung Electronics, TheElec has learned.Exicon has supplying its DDR5 DRAM testing kit, the i1520, since late last year.Its latest kit, to be supplied to Samsung, can test DDR3, DDR4 and DDR5 for PC as