South Korean fab equipment maker SFA will supply overhead hoist transports (OHT) and stockers to chipmaker Micron, TheElec has learned.The equipment maker has already started installation of some of the equipment at Micron’s fab in Gujarat, India, sources said.The deal is worth 50 billion won but co

SK Hynix has announced that it is planning to develop a 4F2 (square) DRAM, much like its domestic rival Samsung.The cost of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) processes has been rising fast since the commercialization of 1c DRAM, SK Hynix researcher Seo Jae Wook noted during an industry conference in Seoul o

Revenue from semiconductors worldwide grew 18.3% in the second quarter from the same period a year ago, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.The revenue figures stood at US$149.9 billion, an increase of 6.5% from the previous quarter.Revenue in June was especially strong __ in North A

Sapeon was collaborating with outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) companies Amkor Technology and ITEK for the production of its X330 AI chip, TheElec has learned.Amkor will handle the packaging of X330 and ITEK the product test, sources said.Sapeon announced the chip last year and is p

Park Systems has supplied its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask repair equipment, called NX-Mask, to a global foundry company, TheElec has learned.It had provided a test version of the equipment before and now the chip foundry has placed an official order in the second quarter of the year, sources said

SK Hynix is planning to spend 9.4 trillion won to build a new fab to respond to the high demand for memory chips caused by the AI boom.The new fab will be built at Yongin Semiconductor Cluster, a new semiconductor industrial zone being pushed by the South Korean government.The fab will start constru

SK Hynix recorded its highest operating profit in six years in the second quarter of this year.The South Korean memory maker said it recorded 16.42 trillion won in revenue and 5.46 trillion won in operating profit in the quarter. It also recorded a net income of 4.12 trillion won.The quarterly reven

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

Namhae Chemical’s subsidiary NES Materials has supplied a prototype high-purity sulfuric acid to Samsung for use in chip production.H2SO4, which used to clean wafers, is going through a performance test by the South Korean tech giant, sources said.NES Materials is a joint venture formed in 2021 by N

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Monday that it will supply high-performance chip boards for hyperscale data centers to AMD.The chip boards refer to flip chip-ball grid array (FC-BGA) and it is the first time Samsung Electro-Mechanics is confirming the deal officially.Hyperscale data centers refer

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

Samsung’s 2-nanometer (nm) process node will have 30% more extreme ultraviolet (EUV) layers compared to 3nm, TheElec has learned.The company’s 3nm node had 20 EUV layers but this has been increased to late-20 layers for 2nm, sources said.Samsung’s 1.4nm, which is slated to start production in 2017,

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

Doosan Tesna will secure chip packaging capability for synergy with its existing chip testing business, Doosan Group said.The goal is to foster the company into am integrated outsourced semiconductor assembly and test company, the group said.This likely means its wants to offer wafer test, packaging

Alphawave Semi is planning to form an office in South Korea to strengthen IP sales to local fabless chip companies, TheElec has learned.Currently, it has a few staff stationed in the country and its headquarters directly supports its fabless and design house customers here.Alphawave Semi, a chipless

Fadu will have sales ownership of the Compute Express Link (CXL) switch chip developed by its subsidiary Eeum.Eeum CEO Jinki Han said the subsidiary will define the hardware model and architecture of the chip.Then, Fadu will takeover the resister transfer level coding and oversee production and sale

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

Nepes has decided to sell its loss-ridden chip package arm. It has notified private equity funds that has provided loans to Nepes Laweh that it plans to restructure and sell the business, sources said.Nepes plans to leave the bare minimum of researchers at Nepes Laweh then sell it, they said. Nepes