"Corning’s Precision Glass Solutions (PGS) business has grown more than 30 percent compared to two years ago when it was newly established."Rustum Desai, the director of Corning PSG, stressed in an interview with The Elec on the 31st. Corning's traditionally major source of revenue is glass substrat

Entegris, a specialist in semiconductor materials in the US, and Versum Materials announced on April 29th (local time) that they will unify as a merger of equals based on the unanimous decision of each company’s board of directors. This will create a semiconductor material company worth 10 trillion

Youlchon Chemical supplied the core material for a foldable display to the Chinese Royole foldable phone 'Flex Pai'.According to the industry on May 29, Youlchon Chemical’s silver nanowire (AgNW) has been installed on the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display of Flex Pie foldable phones made b

Domestic semiconductor inspection equipment maker SEMICS will work with Spirox in Taiwan to accelerate its entry into the Chinese market. On the 29th, Spirox announced that SEMICS' inspection equipment brand OPUS has been included in its sales portfolio in China and Taiwan. Spirox is a distributor o

Domestic companies that supply parts to Apple are also expected to suffer difficulties for some time due to the sluggish iPhone sales. LG Innotek, which relies heavily on iPhone sales, is expected to be hurt significantly. According to the earnings reports for the first quarter of the fiscal year 20

ILJIN Materials, a secondary battery core material maker, will soon start construction of the Elecfoil Plant 2 in Malaysia. It is under the determination that as the electric vehicle battery market is growing, the demand for elecfoil, a core material, is solid.An ILJIN Materials official said on 28t

SK Hynix's future growth direction is defined as artificial intelligence (AI). It has been reported that Vice Chairman Park Sung-Wook, who retired from being the SK Hynix CEO at the end of last year, gathered an organization to present the company’s R&D vision for AI as a future technology & growth

"Apart from the cloud infrastructure, we expect to see the era of 'On-Device AI', which will enable AI calculations on smart phones and autonomous vehicles. When this age arrives, the AI ​​age will be truly realized."Shim Eun-Su, Director of the AI ​​& SW Research Center of Samsung Electronics Advan

Semiconductor production is a continuation of the process of taking (photolithographing), shaving (etching), washing (cleaning), and covering the material (deposition). Among them, etching is a step of cutting out a thin film put on a circuit pattern drawn by exposure or vapor deposition. As the cir

"Foundry investment in China is becoming a threat, and the pace of the threat to Korea will be accelerated."Chinese and overseas major foundry companies are rapidly expanding production facilities in China. As demand for semiconductors in China rises, foundries are increasing their 12-inch wafer pro

The United States is focusing on R&D of high-efficiency power semiconductors. The goal is to enhance the competitiveness of domestic manufacturing industries and improve energy efficiency by developing power semiconductors that will complement the disadvantages of existing silicon (Si) wafer-based s

"AI will evolve faster through heterogeneous systems, approximate computing, analog in-memory computing, and quantum computing." Myung-Hee Na, Distinguished Engineer of IBM Research, said as a keynote speaker at Semicon Korea 2019 held at COEX, Seoul on the 23rd.Engineer Na who presented on the them

"This year, Semicon Korea has the largest number of speakers, exhibitors, booths and visitors in its history. We will anticipate the dynamic changes of the semiconductor industry and present a new trend through this event," said Hyun-Dae Cho, CEO of SEMI Korea, at the press conference of Semicon Kor

“The sales revenue of the memory industry will grow again from 2021”Dr. Walden C. Rhines, Mentor, and the Honorary President of Siemens Business (Previously the CEO of Mentor Graphics) made a keynote speech ‘Domain Specific Processors will change the prospect of memory semiconductors’ in the opening

Jim Feldhan, the CEO of market researching company Semico Research, started his presentation at a press conference on the opening day of Semicon Korea 2019 by explaining about the concept of ‘10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Minus 1-Year Treasury Constant Maturity (T10Y1Y)’Feldhan explained the ‘T

German optical/optical electronics manufacturer Zeiss is introducing their 3D X-ray imaging solution for semiconductor package failure analysis at Semicon Korea 2019.3D X-ray is used for failure analysis of various semiconductor packages such as PoP, PLP, Fo-WLP, and etc. It allows you to see if the

Swagelok, a company that provides fluid management (fittings, valves, hoses) solutions for semiconductor production lines, has decided to manage the Korean market directly. In the meantime, the company has expanded its business through domestic agencies, but, as it acquired the agency assets recentl

KSM Group participated in Semicon Korea 2019 to exhibit innovative semiconductor equipment parts and components. Among the affiliates, KSM exhibited Metal Bellows, KSM Component exhibited heater parts, and Korea Seal Master exhibited Mechanical Seal.The metal bellows, which is the main source of sal

BISTel, a semiconductor engineering automation software (SW) company, is expanding its business to the general industry group smart factory field. Through this, the company plans to continue to grow its sales. In addition to the high-tech industries such as semiconductors and displays, in which the

Kumkang Quartz, a specialist company in quartz ware, will invest 5 billion won in the expansion of its headquarters factory in Dongtan, Hwaseong City in the first half of the year. At the end of the process, the production of quartz parts will be increased by 20~30%. The quartz ring output will be d