Prices of DRAM and NAND flash that spiked in April has flattened in May.Fixed price of DDR4 8Gb PC DRAM was US$3.8 in May, same as it was in April, according to DRAMeXchange.Conventionally, the price of memory in the second month of a quarter remains the same as the first month when new contracts ar

System semiconductor firm Telechips said on Tuesday that it is supplying its automobile system-on-a-chip (SoC) Dolphin Plus to Avtovaz, the Russian car brand under Renault Group.Dolphin Plus is used to power audio, video and navigation (AVN) system on cars.The SoC is applied to Avtovaz’ Lada Enjoy P

Silicon photonics market was worth US$87 million in 2020 but will grow to be worth US$1.1 billion by 2026, according to market research firm Yole Development.The market will grow on average 49% per year during that time, the firm said.Data center will account for the most in the global silicon photo

LB Lusem said on Monday that it has finalized its share price to 14,000 won for its upcoming IPO on KOSDAQ.The first last week commenced a demand forecast for 4.5 million shares for institutional investors.A total of 1,596 investors partook in the forecast, Korea Invest & Securities, which is underw

Chip component and material firm Mecaro said on Monday that it was merging with its subsidiary KVTS.The new shares will be issued. The merger will be completed in August 1. KVTS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mecaro.KVTS makes special valves, RTP lamp housing and Hot N2 for semiconductors.It had su

More consumers are showing interest in smartphone audio and OEMs are working to improve audio sound quality in their products, according to audio chip firm Cirrus Logic.This has increased the number of amplifiers in smartphones and tablets throughout the years, Cirrus Logic vice president of mixed-s

System semiconductor design company Coasia said on Friday that it will sell its majority stake acoustic component subsidiary BSE.The company will sell its 68.75% stake to an unknown party for 31.8 billion won.Earlier in December, it had sold 31.25% stake for 14 billion won.Coasia said it was selling

SK Hynix’s acquisition of Intel’s NAND business unit has been approved by South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday.The approval follows that of those made in the US and Europe earlier. South Korea’s FTC said it approved the deal quickly as it considered there to be little anti-competiti

DB HiTek vice chairman and CEO Choi Chang-sik saw his salary last year triple from a year prior due to high bonus payments from strong performances of the company.Choi received a total of 3.418 billion won in remuneration last year, the company said. He received 782 billion won in salary and 2.636 b

Vacuum robot firm Raontec said on Wednesday that it expects to supply its products to overseas customers starting in the second half of this year or next year.Product demos to overseas customers were yielding results, Raontech CEO Kim Won-geyung said, at the company’s press conference for its listin

The world’s top 15 semiconductor companies saw their combined sales grow 21% in the first quarter of 2021, according to market research firm IC Insights.Fourteen out of the 15 firms all recorded at least US$3 billion in sales.Intel topped the list with US$18.67 billion, followed by Samsung’s US$17.0

Monthly capacity of 200mm, or 8-inch, fabs will increase 17% from 2020 to 2024 to reach 6.6 million, according to SEMI.This will be an increase of 950,000 wafers per month in capacity in just five years.A total of 22 new 200mm fabs that manufacture analog, power, MOSFET and microcontroller unit semi

Silicon Works was the sole fabless in South Korea to record high growth in the first quarter of 2021.TheElec looked at the first quarter earnings of the top 20 fabless companies (including design houses and chipless firms) in the country.Silicon Works recorded 405.6 billion won in sales, a jump of 9

Helios Private Equity will buy a majority stake in chip test socket firm ISC for 148.5 billion won.ISC said Monday that it will sell 31.75% stake (5.16 million shares) to the private equity.The stakes are owned by three people including single largest shareholder chairman Chung Young-bae.The shares

SK Hynix’s acquisition of Intel’s NAND unit has been approved by the European Commission.The Korean chip giant announced in October that it was buying the NAND unit of the US chip giant for US$9 billion.The deal has been under review by antitrust authorities of eight major countries since then.The U

Chip packaging firm LB Lusem will expand its power chip operation to reduce reliance on display driver IC, the company CEO said on Monday.Power chip accounted for 0.7% of its sales in 2019 but the company will expand this to 10% by 2023, LB Lusem CEO Hyunchang Shin said at a press conference ahead o

The top five fab equipment companies all recorded double digit growth in the first quarter of 2021.Applied Materials recorded sales of US$5.582 billion for its fiscal first quarter (February to April), an increase of 41% year-on-year.Net income for the quarter was US$1.33 billion, an increase of 76%

Nextchip will supplying its advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) system-on-a-chip (SoC) to a Japanese tier-1 supplier.The company was preparing to manufacture the Apache 4 for supply, Nextchip chief marketing officer (CMO) Yoo Young-jun told TheElec.It marks the first time that the company is su

Pixelplus is expected to supply more of its surround view monitor (SVM) total solution for automobiles going forward, a company executive said.The company has secured the technologies for the system-on-a-chip (SoC), image signal processor (ISP), image sensor and transmission IC that are required for

The global memory chip market is expected to be worth US$155.2 billion this year, according to market research firm IC Insights.This will grow by 16% to be worth US$180.4 billion in 2022, the firm said.If it is met, the 2022 figure will exceed the previous record of US$163.3 billion in 2018.IC Insig