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

Qualcomm and LG CNS will collaborate in developing security technology for decentralized identity (DID) in blockchain, the companies aid.LG CNS will become the US chip giant’s first block chain independent software vendor under the agreement.The South Korean company will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon pl

Nextchip has received the CMMI V2.0 Level 3 certification, the company said on Monday.Maturity Level 3 proves that the company’s competence in the automotive sector, it said.Nextchip received the CMMI V1.3 Level 3 certification back in 2014. The company was the first in South Korea to receive the ap

Microcontroller unit (MCU) fabless company ABOV Semiconductor will expand into edge artificial intelligence (AI) for growth going forward, the company said.Company vice president Jae C. Son said it will create solutions optimized for the edge AI computing era, at an online forum held by Sungkyunkwan

Worldwide semiconductor sales reached US$36.2 billion in the month of August, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).It is a rise of 4.9% year over year and an increase of 3.6% from July.It is also the seventh straight month of growth.The rise in the Americas was most noticeable.

Intel’s Fab 42 in Arizona has begun operation last week, the company said.It is the US chip giant’s third 10-nanometer (nm) fab. Construction began in 2011 and Intel spent US$23 billion for its construction.Intel has additional 10nm fabs in Oregon in the US and in Israel.Fab 42 has equipment that su

System semiconductor startup SKAi Chips has received 1.6 billion won in investment from a listed South Korean fabless company in its Series A funding round, the company said on Wednesday.The investment was thanks to SKAi’s competence in analog mixed signal chip designs, the startup said.SKAi Chips s

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has developed an 800V horizontal power semiconductors using a gallium nitride (GaN) single crystal substrate, the South Korean national institute said.It will be used as a core component for electric vehicles (EV) to minimize power loss, E

SK Hynix has launched its second generation 10-nanometer (nm) DDR5 DRAM, the company said.DDR5 standard was first announced in July by JEDEC.The company’s DDR5 DRAM supports data transfer rate of 4,800 ~ 5,600 Megabit-per-second (Mbps), which is 1.8 times faster than the previous generation DDR4.Ope

DRAM and NAND Flash prices are expected to remain throughout the remainder of 2020.According to DRAMeXchange, PC DDR4 8Gb DRAM had a contract price of US$3.13 as of September, same as the price of August.USB 128Gb MLC NAND Flash contract price was also fixed at US$4.35 as of September, same as Augus

Hanmi Semiconductor has opened a new production line for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding equipment for use in 5G chips, the company said.The factory is named NK Kwak Hall after the company’s chairman.The line for EMI shielding equipment will in the first floor of its new three story fac

Rear occupant alert (ROA) installation on automobiles is set to become a legal requirement globally.Companies like Texas Instrument, Infineon Technologies, VayaVision and Socionext with monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) technology for radars will likely now compete intensively for the o

Nepes Ark has passed the initial review to go public on KOSDAQ, the company said on Monday.The company will be receiving orders before the listing expected on November, it said.Nepes Ark is a split-off of Nepes’ semiconductor business. It was founded in April 1, 2019.The company tests semiconductor

Linkflow and Qualcomm will collaborate on next-generation camera and related marketing, the companies aid.Linkflow will use the US chip giant’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) for its next smart camera.Once the development is complete, the pair will market the product together, they said.Linkflow CEO Keven K

The global foundry market will show its strongest growth in six years in 2020 thanks to demand for 5G mobile chips, according to research firm IC Insights.The pure foundry market will grow by 19% year over year this year to US$66.7 billion, the firm said. In 2014 the market grew by 18% year over yea

ACM Research has launched Thin Wafer Cleaning System that supports MOSFET and IGBT production for the power semiconductor market.The System features touch-free handling and processing based on the Bernoulli effect to eliminate possible wafer damage and improve final device yield. It supports 200mm a

Telechips will began development of a semiconductor chip for use in advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) for autonomous cars, the company said.The neural processing unit (NPU) based ADAS neural dolphin application processor will began development in October at the earliest, Telechips said.The ch

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said Vehicular Solutions Innovated (VSI) has become the first company to receive investment from its system semiconductor co-growth fund.VSI received 1.5 billion won in funding.The ministry created the 100 billion won fund in April. Samsung Electronics put

Global Zeus has formed a new production firm in South Korea and will wrap up construction of a semiconductor wafer testing factory by the end of the year, the company said.The newly formed company, based at Hwaseong, will make batch-type semiconductor production equipment.Zeus will bring in technolo

Nextin has set its share offering price at 75,400 won, the company said on Wednesday. The South Korean equipment maker will be seeking to secure 24.1 billion won in funding from listing.The company commenced a demand forecast for institutional investors from September 18 to 21.Most of the investors