Microprocessing unit (MPU) market will recover this year, according to IC Insights.MPU includes CPU for PC and servers as well as application processors (AP) such as system-on-a-chip (SoC) used in smartphones.MPU market will grow 1.4% year over year in 2020 to be worth US$79.3 billion.Last year, the

Samsung Electronics and KAIST university has ended their patent lawsuits over FinFET technology.KAIST has claimed that the South Korean tech giant used the patents of its subsidiary KAIST IP without permission.FinFET allows semiconductors to use less power while increasing their performance.The tech

Nvidia has made it official that it plans to acquire Arm for US$40 billion on Sunday.The deal will be the biggest M&A in the semiconductor industry to date. However, the deal is still pending approval from authorities in various countries including China.SoftBank and Vision Fund currently hold a 75%

3D stacking technology will lead the semiconductor packaging market in the next five years, according to research firm Yole Developpement.Advanced semiconductor packaging market was worth US$29 billion in 2019 but this will grow by an average of 6.6% per year to be worth US$42 billion in 2025, the f

Maxim Integrated Korea launched a mobile app for analog chip shopping, the company said on Thursday.Customers can use their smartphones to check analog semiconductor information and order them as well through the app, called Essential Analog.Maxim will also provide application notes, blog contents,

Fab equipment spending will hit record numbers in 2021 thanks to the growth of the memory market, according to SEMI.Fab equipment spending in 2020 will increase 8% from a year prior to US$63.2 billion.Next year, this will increase by 13% year over year to reach US$65.5 billion, SEMI said.Demand from

Hanmi Semiconductor has won its patent lawsuit against rival Genesem at the appeals court, the company said on Wednesday.The patent court said Genesem used Hanmi’s patents related to vision placement equipment without approval.The court has ordered Genesem to halt production and sales of products th

Hanmi Semiconductor has won its patent lawsuit against rival Genesem at the appeals court, the company said on Wednesday.The patent court said Genesem used Hanmi’s patents related to vision placement equipment without approval.The court has ordered Genesem to halt production and sales of products th

LiDAR company SOS Lab will launch its 2D LiDAR sensor called SL-2 aimed at factory automation in October, the company said on Tuesday.Next year, the company will launch its 3D fully solid-state LiDAR called ML-1 that is mainly aimed at autonomous vehicles.LiDAR is a core component in advanced driver

SurplusGLOBAL will hire developmentally disabled people at its semiconductor equipment cluster that will start construction next year in June, the company said.The South Korean company signed an MOU with Korea Employment Agency for Persons with Disabilities (KEAD) at its headquarters in Osan to set-

DB HiTek has promoted two new employees to executives, the company said on Monday.Park Sang-kwon and Han Sung-jin has been named vice presidents. Park worked at LG Semiconductors and Hynix Semiconductors and worked on marketing and strategy before joining DB HiTek in 2009. He will oversee planning i

Qualcomm announced on Thursday at the IFA tradeshow its second generation Snapdragon 8cx 5G compute platform aimed at notebook PCs.The US chip giant touted the ARM architecture based processors’ low power, 5G connectivity and artificial intelligence (AI) performances.The chip will allow notebook PCs

Intel announced its new 11th generation Intel Core Processor, which was code named Tiger Lake, on Thursday.Computing performance is 10% higher compared to the 10th generation (Ice Lake) and graphic performance has doubled, the chip giant said.HP, Dell, Lenovo and other major PC makers will launch so

DB HiTek said Thursday that it has successfully developed a high-performance microphone based on micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS). The microphone had a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of 65dB, the company said at the online MEMS & Sensor Forum hosted by SEMI.Jung Min-Hyun, a developer at DB HiTek

Broadcom was the number one fabless company in terms of sales in the second quarter, beating Qualcomm, according to market research firm TrendForce.The company had temporarily ceded its top position to Qualcomm in the first quarter.Broadcom saw sales slow due to the trade dispute between US and Chin

KEC has clinched a supply deal with Tesla to provide them with LV MOSFET TVS used in digital cockpits, the company said on Tuesday.Supply for the chips will begin in 2021.They will be used for over-voltage protection and over-current protection on touch screen liquid crystal display (LCD) panels on

Qualcomm has provided scholarship and its Snapdragon mobile platform for the 2019-2020 Korea Robot Championship (KRC), the company said.The event is sponsored by the US chip giant and hosted by FEST Creative Engineering Education Association.A total of 143 teams and 1,000 students participated on th

Samsung Electronics’ second factory at its Pyeongtaek semiconductor plant has begun mass production, the company said.It will produce 3rd generation 10-nanometer (nm) LPDDR5 mobile DRAM using the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process, Samsung said.The factory, called Pyeongtaek Line 2, is being designed

Hanmi Semiconductor has launched its new Flip Chip Bonder-5.0 aimed at high-end semiconductor production, the company said on Tuesday.It is the fifth generation in the series of bonders. The fourth generation model was launched three years ago.Flip chip bonders are used to connect circuits when a se

SK Siltron has developed a recycling technology in which 95% of the wasted slurry in semiconductor wafer production can be reused, the company said on Tuesday.The technology was co-developed with Korea University of Technology and Education and Cleansolution.Slurry used to flattened the unnecessary