ASML CEO Peter Wennink has said on Thursday during his visit to South Korea that the Netherlands-based fab equipment maker will support the local chip ecosystem.Wennink held talks with Moon Sung-wook, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy, at ASML Korea’s headquarters at Hwaseong the same day,

DRAM revenue during the third quarter increased 10% from the previous quarter to US$26.569 billion, according to analyst firm TrendForce.Samsung was the largest vendor with revenue of US$11.68 billion during the quarter, an increase of 11.1% quarter-to-quarter, for a market share of 44%.SK Hynix ran

Qualcomm said on Tuesday that it has appointed Kwon Oh-hyung as its senior vice president and president of APAC.The South Korean national will oversee the entire APAC region outside of China and India, The US chip giant said.Kwon will report to Qualcomm senior vice president of global operations Jim

Samsung is planning to use Qualcomm’s chipsets for near half of the smartphones and tablets it launches in 2022, TheElec has learned.According to Samsung’s smartphone shipment plan for 2022 seen by TheElec, the tech giant is planning to launch a total of 64 models of smartphones and tablets.Out of t

Yes Power Technix said on Monday that it will be building new infrastructure at the city of Busan to mass-produce 6-inch silicon carbide (SiC) power management ICs.It was chosen by Busan Techno Park as the company to move into its Power Semiconductor Commercialization Center.The center was set up by

Optical inspection kit maker Nextin was in talks with up to five Chinese semiconductor companies to supply its equipment, TheElec has learned.Earlier this year, won a deal from Chinese foundry SMIC to supply its Aegis 2 kit, a deal worth around 6 billion won.Nextin will supply the kits through Beiji

Telechips said on Friday that it was supplying application processors for digital dashboards on cars to a top European automaker.The chip meets ISO26262 B safety standard, the company said.Telechips said the company succeeded in meeting the requirements of global OEMs and is expecting more orders.Th

Samsung said on Thursday that it has developed a new chip packaging technology.Called H-Cube and developed together with Amkor Technology and Samsung Electro-Mechanics, the 2.5 dimension packaging technology can house logic chips and high bandwidth memories (HBM) on a silicon interposer, the tech gi

NC& said on Wednesday that it has recorded 33.58 billion won in revenue and 150 million won in operating income during the third quarter.It marks the first time for the firm to post over 30 billion won in quarterly revenue. It also returned to profitability compared to a year ago.NC& credited the pe

South Korean chip fabless firm Abov Semiconductor will acquire chip testing company Winpac.Winpac is an outsourced assembly and testing firm of SK Hynix and owned by liquid crystal display component maker TLI, which owns a majority stake.People familiar with the matter said TLI’s side has stressed t

Hanmi Semiconductor said on Wednesday that it will open a showroom at Suzhou, China to promote its brand of dual-chuck saw called micro SAW.It will be located at an industrial park in the Chinese city where Chinese outsourced assembly and testing companies JCET, Huatian Technology and Nantong Fujits

South Korean chip design house SemiFive is planning to acquire a fellow partner of Samsung Foundry Hanatec, TheElec has learned.If the deal succeeds, Hanatec will become the third design house company within three years that SemiFive has acquired.SemiFive will acquire enough shares for managerial ri

Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it has developed its first LPDDR5X DRAM.It used its 14-nanometer (nm) extreme ultra-violet (EUV) multi-layer process to develop the mobile DRAM, the company said.It used EUV on five of the layers which increased productivity for the chips, Samsung said.The LP

South Korean chip fabless company Neowine was developing its own AI chip design platform, its CEO said.Neowine CEO John H. Lee told TheElec that the IP and software platform will be called EONNX, or Embedded ONNX, which will be based on the open source AI software platform Open Neural Network Exchan

The US and China's trade row is continuing. Five years have passed since the inauguration of the Trump Administration that started the row but the two superpowers' economic competition isn't relenting even in the Biden era.The US-China trade row will undoubtedly affect South Korea's semiconductor bu

South Korean chip design company Coasia, a partner to Samsung Foundry, has supplied a sample of SoC to a cigarette company that plans to apply it to its e-cigarette, the company said on Tuesday.Once the sample is approved by the customer, the SoC will go into mass production, a senior executive of t

Worldwide semiconductor revenue hit its quarterly record during the third quarter of 2021, according to US’ Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).Revenue during the quarter was US$144.8 billion, the organization said, an increase of 27.6% year-on-year and 7.4% quarter-to-quarter.SIA analyzed the

Image sensor designer Pixelplus said on Tuesday that it plans to develop a sensor for water quality measurement with Thewavetalk.Thewavetalk develops water quality measurement devices under its Watertalk brand.The company plans to apply Pixelplus’ image sensor technology to its products. Water quali

SK Hynix said on Friday that it will be acquiring foundry company Key Foundry for 575.8 billion won.The purchase will double its 8-inch foundry production capacity, the South Korean memory maker said.It will acquire 100% of the shares of Key Foundry from their parent company Magnus Semiconductor thr

The combined revenue of the world’s top ten foundry companies is expected to exceed US$100 billion this year, according to analyst firm TrendForce.In 2022, their combined revenue will grow by 13.3% to reach US$117.69 billion, the firm said.The foundry industry is seeing high growth thanks to the inc