AMD will buy rival semiconductor company Xilinx in an all-stock deal worth US$35 billion, the pair announced on Tuesday.AMD to will likely leverage Xilinx’s field programmable gate array (FPGA) to increase its competence in offerings for data centers and machine learning.Xilinx stockholders will rec

Semiconductor testing company Nepes Ark was in the process of expanding its factory at Cheongan, the company said on Tuesday.This was thanks to it securing a large customer, the company said.Nepes Ark was planning to go public on KOSDAQ in November. It said 46.1 billion won out of the total fund it

Semiconductor testing firm Nepes Ark is aiming to win a large order from Samsung Electronics to test CMOS image sensors (CIS), TheElec has learned.Samsung is expanding its CIS production to catch up to market leader Sony, which is making it difficult for the South Korean tech to test them all on its

Analog Devices and NEC have designed Rakuten Mobile’s 5G base station massive MIMO antenna radio unit, the pair said.The radio unit uses Analog Device’s fourth-generation RF transceiver solution.Rakuten Mobile has an open virtual RAN interface for its 5G network.NEC said it has already begun the sup

Semiconductor IP company Chips&Media saw its operating profits rise 25% year over year in the third quarter of 2020.The company said it posted 1.3 billion won in operating profits and 4.8 billion won in sales in the quarter.The company secured a new US client __ which is one of the top ten semicondu

Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong has visited the conglomerate’s Vietnam operation in a four day business trip from October 19 to 22, the company said.Lee inspected facilities of Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display. He also visited the construction site of the company’s new research

US materials company Inpria has begun production of MOx-based inorganic photoresist (PR).Its high volume manufacturing facility has gone live recently and the company will be able to service the demand for inorganic PR, Inpria CEO Andrew Grenvile said at SMC 2020 hosted by SEMI.The facility has a pr

Semiconductor materials company RFsemi will start its own microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) foundry business, the company said.MEMS utilizes semiconductor production process to integrate ultra-small, micrometer-sized mechanical components and circuits on silicon wafers.Microphones made with this

TSE has begun supplying its ultra-fast test socket called Eltune to a global system-on-a-chip (SoC) maker, the company said.Eltune sockets offers shorter signal lengths compared to pogo pin sockets, the company said. The contact terminal was also wider and showed high results during yield rate testi

Semiconductor component maker Haesung DS has posted 12.5 billion won in operating income in the third quarter of 2020.It is a rise of 37.9% year over year, the company said.Haesung DS posted net income of 8.4 billion won and sales of 119 billion won in the quarter, a rise of 5% and 14.9% year over y

Semiconductor exposure component maker FST will launch pellicles for use in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process next year, the company said on Tuesday.The company will launch a full size EUV pellicle based on silicon carbide (SiC), 30-nanometer (nm) thick and with 90% transmittance in the first quarte

Hanmi Semiconductor has posted its highest every quarterly profits in the third quarter of 2020.The company posted operating profits of 24.9 billion won and sales of 77.9 billion won in the quarter. It is an operating margin rate of 32%.It was Hanmi’s best performance since its founding in 1980, the

Hanmi Semiconductor is expected to post record third quarter sales thanks to its supply to Skyworks Solutions, a vendor of 5G chips to Apple.The South Korean semiconductor equipment maker is expected to post sales of around 70 billion in the third quarter, according to South Korean analysts.Hanmi po

Semiconductor equipment maker ASML posted sales of 3.958 billion euros in the third quarter, a rise of 32% year over year.The extreme ultraviolet (EUV) exposure equipment maker posted operating profits of 1.216 billion euros, an operating margin rate of 30.7% and rise of 77% year over year.ASML said

Silicon wafer shipment in 2020 will grow 2.4% year over year thanks to high growth in memory semiconductors.2021 will see a further 5% growth year over year, SEMI said.This contrast with with 2019, when wafer shipment contracted by 6.9% from 2018.Despite geopolitical conflicts that is changing the g

Samsung Electronics is considering investing into its 200mm semiconductor wafer production lines to make it semi-autonomous, TheElec has learned.The conglomerate’s 300mm wafer lines are currently fully automated. Wafers are transferred from chamber to chamber using over head transport machines.Howev

Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong has visited the headquarters of ASML of Netherland, the South Korean tech giant said on Wednesday.Lee met with ASML CEO Peter Wennink and CTO Martin Van den Brink to discuss collaboration between the two companies.ASMl is the only company that makes ext

Samsung Electronics has launched its new SD cards lineup PRO Plus and EVO Plus, the company said.They are aimed at DSLR, mirrorless and compact camera users as well as PCs, the South Korean tech giant said.The PRO Plus offers sequential read and write speeds of up to 100MB/s and 90MB/s, respectively

Semiconductor and display particle contamination monitoring equipment maker Withtech was in talks with YMTC of China and TSMC of Taiwan for a potential supply deal, the company said on Tuesday.Overseas clients account for 47% of the company’s sales __ it plans to expand this further buy winning more

SK Hynix has won three awards out of ten given in IDC Digital Transformation (DX) Awards 2020.The South Korean memory giant won the top ward of Digital Transformer, a first for a semiconductor company.It also won awards in the Operation Model Master and Talent Accelerator categories.SK Hynix uses bi