ISC said on Wednesday that it has won a patent lawsuit against a competitor after four years for court battles.ISC first filed its suit against its rival for patent violation and requested damages. The competitor hit back with a patent invalidation lawsuit.ISC said it has won the suit in the Supreme

Worldwide automotive semiconductor sales will contract 9.6% this year to US$38 billion, according to market research firm IHS Markit.However, this is better than IHS Markit’s early estimation that sales will contract by 20% compared to 2019 due to low demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.High dema

MK Electron said on Monday that it has posted 8.6 billion won in accumulated operating income and 347.4 billion on in accumulated sales up to the third quarter.It is a rise of 156% and 38%, respectively, from the same time period a year ago.It is its highest quarterly performance in seven years __ i

Apple on Tuesday unveiled its self-developed PC processor M1.The chip will power its new 13-inch MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and Mac Mini.Cupertino has powered its iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch with its self-developed Arm-based system-on-a-chip (Soc) in the past but this is its first for its notebook se

Hyundai Motor will install Nvidia Drive-based connected car operating system (ccOS) in all its car models launching in 2022.The OS will be applied to all Hyundai, Kia and Genesys brand cars, from the entry level to the premium level.Hyundai and Nvidia has been collaborating on the technology since 2

U-blox is planning to expand its GNSS business to include wearables.Its GNSS platform aimed at wearables, called M10, was launched worldwide on November 6.U-blox’s Korea country manager KS Son said while the company focused on products from automobile in the past, the new M10 was made with both cons

Nepes Ark has finalized its share offering price for its upcoming IPO at 26,500 won.A total of 1,013 institutional investors took part in its demand forecast from November 2 to 3.Nepes Ark is aiming to secure 62 billion won from being listed.The company specializes in testing system semiconductors.I

China’s SmartSens has secured US$225 million in investment in its latest funding round, the company said on Friday.The firm will focus on developing chip architecture for CMOS image sensors (CIS) with the latest funds.State-owned China Integrated Circuit Investment Fund, Xiaomi Changing Industrial F

South Korea will lead in equipment spending in 300mm fabs until 2024, according to SEMI.The country will invest between US$15 billion to US$19 billion from 2020 to 2024.Taiwan came in second at between US$14 billion to US$17 billion, followed by China’s US$11 billion to US$13 billion.Fab spending in

SK Hynix will triple its sales from its NAND flash memory business in the next five years following its acquisition of Intel’s NAND unit, company CEO Lee Seok-hee said on Wednesday.Speaking at the company’s third quarters conference call, Lee said the company aims to become a top memory player, not

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SK Hynix CEO Lee Seok-hee said on Thursday that he doesn’t believe the acquisition price for Intel’s NAND unit was expensive.Lee was responding to questions from reporters following a local tradeshow.The CEO said the price of US$9 billion reflects Intel’s competence in solid-state drives (SSD) and i