Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix has refused to take part in a preliminary review for a South Korean government project to develop next-generation processing-in-memory (PIM).The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has chosen PIM AI semiconductor as a national p

Applied Materials has touted its latest optical wafer inspection system that utilizes big data and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in South Korea.The company said at an online press event for South Korean media that it plans to expand its supply of its systems from foundry and logic to mem

Seoul Semiconductor has entered Samsung Electronics’ supply chain for MiniLED, TheElec has learned.The volume is yet small, but could lead to bigger collaboration between the pair in MiniLED and MicroLED in the future.Seoul Semiconductor has supplied its MiniLED to Samsung for use in Neo QLED TVs, w

Hanwha Corporation said on Monday that it will build a new nitric acid factory at Yeosu City.The company will spend 190 billion won by 2023 for the new plant, which will add 400,000 metric tonne in annual production capacity.This will increase Hanwha’ total annual production capacity from the curren

Hanmi Semiconductor recorded 70.5 billion won in sales and 18.5 billion won in operating income in the first quarter of 2021.This is a rise of 80.1% and 161.5%, respectively, from the same time period a year ago.The company said it is seeing a surge in orders for semiconductor production equipment d

Seoul Semiconductor ranked third in LED package in 2020 in terms of sales. The company, citing data from market research firm Omdia, said its LED package sales grew 4.3% year-on-year, allowing to surpass Lumileds to take third place.Japan’s Nichia ranked first with US$1.766 billion in sales. Germany

SK Hynix has formed a new group that will focus on development of fab equipment technologies, TheElec has learned.The South Korean memory maker had hired an outside expert and named them an executive vice president to lead the fab equipment development group.The group will be under direction supervi

LG Chem said on Wednesday that its second carbon nanotube (CNT) factory at Yeosu has finished construction and began production.With the factory going live, the company’s annual CNT production capacity has now increased from 500 metric tonnes to 1,700 metric tonnes.CNT has the same levels of heat co

Merck Electronics may invest over 200 million euros for the next five years in South Korea to expand its facilities in the country.The firm had agreed with Gyeonggi Province to expand investment and foster talents in semiconductors and displays together on Tuesday.Merch Electronics CEO Kai Beckmann

The Korea Semiconductor Industry Association (KSIA) has asked the South Korean government to enact new laws that provide support for the industry.The association said in an open letter that the US was planning to offer up to 40% tax reduction for semiconductor equipment spending, while the European

Philoptics said on Friday that it has won additional orders for its back side align (BSA) direct image (DI) exposure machine used in semiconductor production.The machines uses special lighting and camera to detect BSA mark on wafers. It can increase the accuracy of the alignment between the front an

Robotic automation firm Raontec is planning to list on KOSDAQ in May. The company filed a security report for the listing to financial authorities on Friday.The company previously listed on KONEX in 2015. It is planning to list on the higher tier bourse through the special exemption rule for technol

SK Hynix has settled its patent lawsuit with Netlist.The South Korean memory maker will pay royalties to the latter under their patent cross-licensing agreement, the company said.SK Hynix will be paying around US$40 million for use of Netlist’ patents.In 2016, Netlist filed a patent infringement law

ACM Research on Wednesday announced in South Korea that its 300mm Ultra Fn furnace dry processing equipment will support additional semiconductor manufacturing processes.The additions are: un-doped poly deposition, doped poly deposition, gate oxide deposition, high-temperature oxidation and high-tem

South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on Wednesday said it has chosen ten categories of semiconductors used in cars to develop.These are car storage, power management chips, driver video record system chips, and others.Though microcontroller unit, which is experiencing the worst short

South Korean semiconductor deposition equipment maker Eugune Technology has won a large order for atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment from Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor division, TheElec has learned.Eugune beat Japan’s Kokusai Electric to win the large order. Samsung had relied on Kokusai f

Tesna recorded an operating margin rate of 23.09% in 2020, the highest among semiconductor packaging and testing companies in South Korea.The top ten companies for packaging and testing (back-end process) combined recorded average operating margin rates of 5.66%.Tesna’s operating margin rate beat ot

SK Hynix is in talks to supply its memory chips for cars with German auto-component giant Bosch, TheElec has learned.SK Hynix has completed the development of the memory chip that meets specifications requested by Bosch, people familar with the matter said.DRAMs used in cars have increased reliabili

The top 40 semiconductor and display equipment companies in South Korea saw their operating income and sales increase substantially in 2020.The companies combined recorded 12.72 trillion won in sales and 1.22 trillion won in operating income, an increase of 25.8% and 66.5%, respectively, from 2019,

The South Korean government is aiming to foster the production of silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductor.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Thursday that the country will aim to develop over five commercial power chips by 2025.Power chips that are made wi