SK Hynix has replaced the gas it uses in some of its cleaning process steps in chip production with a more environmentally friendly gas.According to the chipmaker’s sustainability report for 2024, the company conducted tests to replace nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) with a gas with low global warming po

Hanwha Precision Machinery expects its back-end fab equipment business unit to turn to the black next year.Parent company Hanwha Aerospace also said in its filings to financial authorities earlier this month that Hanwha Precision Machinery’s front-end and back-end fab equipment business units togeth

Global fab equipment revenue is expected to reach US$109 billion this year, according to SEMI.This is expected to increase 17% next year to US$120 billion in 2025, the organization said.Wafer fab equipment will account for US$98 billion of this year’s total, and increase 14.7% to account for US$113

Semiconductor packaging firm Genesem has supplied its next-generation hybrid bonding equipment to chipmaker SK Hynix for use in the production of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), TheElec has learned.Genesem has supplied two units of the equipment which were installed at SK Hynix’s pilot fab to test hybr

Battery material maker EcoPro is planning to build its own battery cell production line, TheElec has learned.The line is being made not for commercial production but for research and development of materials such as cathode, separator, current collector, and electrolyte.EcoPro has already started fo

Semiconductors going forward will stack transistors on top of each other, Jusung Engineering chairman Chul Joo Hwang said.This is because scaling DRAM and logic chips are reaching their limits so DRAM and logic chips will, like NAND, stack transistors on top of each other to overcome this, the chair

KCTech’s supercritical fluid cleaner was being evaluated by SK Hynix for use in its DRAM production line, TheElec has learned.SK Hynix has been procuring this equipment from Tokyo Electron, so if KCTech passes the evaluation it will become a secondary supplier, sources said.KCTech is expected to pas

LG Energy Solution is planning to build its most advanced battery production line yet at its Ochang factory, TheElec has learned.It is its seventh pilot line at the factory and will be completed in October.The line will use smart factory technologies and manufacture pouch batteries, sources said.Tho

Fab equipment maker Neosem has supplied new inspection equipment for use in Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0 memory production, becoming the first company to do so, TheElec has learned.The customer is Samsung and the equipment is used to determine whether memory modules that support CXL 2.0 are operat

Yujin Technology was developing battery notching and stacking equipment, TheElec has learned.It marks the company’s entry into the battery production equipment business, as it has only offered components and materials for batteries so far.Notching is used to make the positive and negative tabs of th

Hyundai Motor is planning to use press notching instead of laser in its latest joint battery factory with LG Energy Solution in the US, TheElec has learned.The factory, operated by the pair’s joint venture HL-GA, will use notching, much like HLI Green Power, Hyundai Motor’s joint venture with LG Ene

Hanmi Semiconductor has effectively lost in a patent lawsuit it filed against rival Genesem over patents related to packaging equipment.In fact, it lost more than it bargained for as the court nullified its patents.Hanmi Semiconductor filed the suit against Genesem to the Seoul Central District Cour

Back-end equipment maker ASMPT has supplied a demo thermal compression (TC) bonder for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production to Micron, TheElec has learned.The equipment maker is collaborating with the US memory giant in co-developing a TC bonder for use in HBM4 production.ASMPT has also supplied T

Battery inspection equipment maker Nsys said on Monday that it will acquire cylindrical battery production equipment maker Lakyung Engineering.Nsys has already secured a 67% stake in the latter and plans to increase this to 80%.Lakyung Engineering specializes in production equipment for 4680 cylindr

Samsung’s fab equipment-making subsidiary Semes has succeeded in developing an argon fluoride immersion (ArF-i) lithography track equipment.The first unit of the equipment, called Omega Prime, was supplied last year and Semes was making a second unit, the company said on Monday.South Korean chipmake

This week, multiple acquaintances messaged me to ask whether a certain report was true.The report, made in South Korean media, claimed that Nvidia asked Samsung to change the design of their high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and that this would cause further delays in supply. Coincidentally, Samsung’s sha

Samsung Foundry is expected to launch 1.4-nanometer (nm) process, back side power delivery network (BSPDN), and silicon photonics in 2027.During its Samsung Foundry Forum held in San Jose on Wednesday, the South Korean tech giant’s contract chip production business unit announced its technology road

Chinese display panel maker CSOT has sent requests for quotations to South Korean equipment makers for Gen 6 OLED production equipment, TheElec has learned.Multiple equipment makers have received the request and are reviewing the profitability of assembling the kits, sources said.CSOT will decide ne

Samsung shared in a recent paper that it believes hybrid bonding was needed to manufacture a 16-stack high-bandwidth memory (HBM).In its paper published during the 2024 IEEE 74th Electronic Components and Technology Conference held in Colorado last month titled, in Korean, D2W (die to wafer) Copper

Hanwha Precision Machinery has won a deal with SK Hynix to supply thermal compression (TC) bonders used in the production of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), TheElec has learned.With ASMPT (which Dutch equipment maker ASM is the largest shareholder with a 25% share) also agreeing to develop TC bonder un