Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) equipment maker ESOL is reviewing ways to secure an additional 12 billion won in investment, TheElec has learned.Last month, the company offered 68,000 new shares priced at 257,280 won per share to institutional investors for around 17.5 billion won in investment.ESOL is be

Samsung is planning to install fab equipment on its new advanced fab P3 at its Pyeongtaek plant early in May, TheElec has learned.The company is aiming to complete the construction of the fab within the second half of this year. In preparation, Samsung will be placing and installing equipment at the

Motion control company Movensys is aiming to expand into the display panel and lithium-ion battery markets.Company chairman of the board Yang Boo-ho told TheElec that the company is planning to upgrade its motion control solution with machine learning and data analysis to achieve this while also off

Semes, the chip fab equipment subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, said on Friday that it has recorded 3.12 trillion won in revenue and 353.3 billion won in operating profit for the entire year of 2021.It is the company’s best annual performance to date. Revenue and operating profit also increased 41%

Computing chip inspection equipment maker DI was considering developing energy storage systems (ESS) as its new growth engine, TheElec has learned.ESS is comprised of battery cells and power management systems and is used to store power.They are in high demand to be paired with new energy sources su

Auros Technology said on Monday that it has started the development of a new overlay measurement equipment aimed at use in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process.Overlay measurement equipment is used to check the alignment of circuit patterns between the top surface and the bottom surface of wafers.T

Samsung said on Thursday that it has recorded 77 trillion won in sales and 14.1 trillion won in operating profit for the first quarter this year. It is a rise of 17.75% and 50.32%, respectively, from 2021. Analysts said the company enjoyed strong demand for its memory chips and smartphones during th

Hana Micron has been developing flexible packaging technologies aimed at the use of wearable devices and medical devices.The project started last year and is being conducted as a five-year plan, a company spokesperson said.The first result of the project is an ECG sensor module developed late last y

SK Hynix said on Tuesday that it has launched a new enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) that uses 128-layer NAND flashes.P5530 also uses controllers provided by the South Korean chip giant’s subsidiary Solidigm, which was formed in San Hose following the completion of the first stages of the acquisit

DS Techopia is planning to expand its production capacity for hexachlorodisilane (HCDS), a precursor used in the production of NAND flash memory chips, by up to 50% during the third quarter.The company said it was doing so as its customers such as Samsung are expanding their overall NAND flash produ

Samsung said on Wednesday that it will collaborate with Western Digital to set standards on Zoned Storage solid-state drives (SSD).The collaboration on Zoned Storage is their first among their comprehensive agreement to collaborate in the standardization of next-generation data placement, processing

DB HiTek CEO and vice chairman Choi Chang-sik said on Tuesday that the company intends to spend more in 2022 to replace aged 8-inch wafer equipment with new ones.The chip foundry company has been replacing aged 8-inch wafer equipment for the past five years but has so far only managed to replace 30%

Samsung is diversifying its solid-state drive (SSD) tester supply chain as it prepares to mass-produce SSDs with next-generation interfaces.The South Korean tech giant recently held an open bidding meeting for SSD tester suppliers in a bid to secure new suppliers, sources said.Samsung has since then

DB HiTek had spent more than it initially planned on fab equipment in 2021 thanks to the high demand for its 8-inch foundry services.The company said on Wednesday it spent 49.3 billion won in equipment during the fourth quarter last year.It has already spent 65.9 billion won in equipment up to the t

TES is close to finishing the development of a low-k material deposition equipment, which will be the first from a South Korean company.The company is close to wrapping up its low-k plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) equipment, sources said.Low-k material refers to materials that have

Fab equipment maker Exicon said on Friday that it has supplied 31.59 billion won worth of inspection equipment to Samsung Electronics.Most of the equipment are solid-state drive (SSD) testers, which are used to evaluate the performance and reliability of SSDs during the back-end process.The testers

Eugenetec is currently developing a titanium nitride atomic layer deposition (TiN-ALD) equipment for application in 10-nanometer (nm) DRAM production, TheElec has learned.The equipment is used to form the electrode films of the capacitors in DRAM.Eugenetec began development for the new equipment lat

QRT said on Thursday that it will use its focused ion beam (FIB) technology to offer advanced semiconductor defect analysis.The company currently offers FIB equipment to offer semiconductor circuit correction service.This allows chip companies save time and money of mask adjustment and wafer fabrica

Dry etching equipment maker APTC was developing a 300mm oxide etching equipment with the aim to offer it for a demo text in 2023, TheElec has learned.Etching is a front-end process in wafer fabrication where parts of the wafer not needed after the circuit patterns are drawn are etched out.Oxide film

Hanmi Semiconductor said on Thursday that it has supplied its Micro SAW T2101 dual-chuck saw to a global automotive semiconductor company.The company said the saw can cut conventional packages as well as those that are thick or need water-proofing.Hanmi Semiconductor said it expected to ship more sa