South Korean company KEC has developed a low voltage MOSFET (LV MOSET) semiconductor for vehicle heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC).The company will supply the chips, called KFS70N06K, to Hanon Systems and Doowon Climate Control, it said on Wednesday.The chip will be applied to blow m

Semiconductor inspection equipment maker Nextin has supplied its new kit to SK Hynix, TheElec has learned.SK Hynix was testing the demo version. If it scores highly in the evaluation, Nextin may supply more of them next year for a boost in sales.The demo version of inspection equipment Aegis 2 was a

Taiwan’s MediaTek shipped the most number of smartphone application processors in the third quarter of 2020, according to market research firm CounterPoint.MediaTek controlled 31% market share in terms of shipment, an increase of 5% from the same time period a year ago.CounterPoint said sales of low

Soft Motions & Robotics, a software-based equipment motion control company, is expected to double its sales in 2020 from 2019.A large South Korean semiconductor equipment has expanded the use of the company’s software, which is quickly replacing programmable logic controller (PLC) hardware as Soft M

South Korean semiconductor equipment maker APTC has successfully commercialized a new polysilicon etching kit called LEO WH, the company said on Wednesday.A new etching kit called NARDO M can be used to not only etch polysilicon but metal layers has also been commercialized, the company said.Both eq

Semiconductor IP company CEVA will focus on offering automotive digital signal processor (DSP) IP to South Korea next year, the company said.CEVA was founded in 2002 and offers DSP IP and related software for companies. In 2014 it acquired RivieraWaves and in 2019 it bought Hillcrest Labs to expand

South Korean chip maker DB HiTek has decided to increase the price of semiconductor contract production, or foundry, by up to 20%, TheElec has learned.The company decided to increase the price due to high demand for foundry services globally, people familiar with the matter said. DB HiTek has also s

Samsung Electronics on Saturday posted a teaser video for its new Exynos chip launching next month.The Korean tech giant said on in the clip that the new chip will be unveiled on January 12.The chip is likely the rumored Exynos 2100. It will likely have beefed up neural processing unit for artificia

US Department of Commerce has added Chinese foundry SMIC in its list of sanctioned companies that will have their access to US technology blocked.SMIC was among 77 companies, 60 of them Chinese, added to Entity List. The addition was due to China’s military-civil fusion (MCF) doctrine and evidence o

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Thursday said it will take expression of interests (EOI) from foreign chip makers to build semiconductor wafer fabs, local media Swarayja reports.The deadline is January 31 and the ministry is taking applications from integrated d

Artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors will have explosive growth as their application expands to the edge from data centers, a Samsung executive said.A new AI called GPT-3 was recently launched in the US, Changkyu Choi, executive vice president at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, said

Oceanbridge CEO Lee Kyeong-ju will step down for personal reasons, the company said on Thursday.Inside director Jung Yoon-chul will replace him as new CEO, the company said.Jung was previously an executive vice president at local private equity fund Alchemist Capital Partners Korea. He previously wo

Intel on Thursday unveiled three new Optane memory products and three solid-state drives (SSD) made with 144-layer 3D NAND flash.The US chip giant unveiled: Optane SSD P5800X, Optane Memory H20 SSD and its Gen 3 Optane Persistent Memory (code name: Crow Pass).Optane SSD P5800X is Intel’s first produ

Semiconductor testing company Tesna said on Tuesday that it has begun operation of its new testing factory.The factory will test Samsung Electronics’ CMOS image sensors. Operations of the facility at Anseong began near end of October.A Tesna spokesperson said testing volume will increase to mobile a

Global fab equipment spending will reach US$68.8 billion this year, according to SEMI.This is a rise of 16% compared to 2019 and highest figure ever.Fab equipment will continue to rise in the next two years: it will reach US$72.1 billion in 2021 and US$76.1 billion in 2022, SEMI said.Front-end equip

SK Hynix’s foundry factory in Wuxi, China has started operations.According to local media Wuxi Daily, SK Hynix’ subsidiary, Sk Hynix System IC, held a factory production ceremony on December 12.SK Hynix System IC’s factory can handle 8-inch wafers. China has over a thousand fabless companies.Accordi

Showa Denko Materials, the semiconductor material subsidiary of Showa Denko, will build a new slurry factory in South Korea.The new chemical mechanical polish (CMP) slurry factory will be built in Ansan, according to Japanese media The Chemical Daily.The factory is expected begin production in Octob

Naver Cloud and Intel will co-develop filed programmable grid array (FPGA)-based smart network interface card (NIC), the companies said on Monday.The South Korean cloud service provider will use Intel’s solution to develop the smart NIC.Naver Cloud has previously developed a SmartNIC using Intel’s F

Hyundai Mobis will acquire the semiconductor business of affiliate Hyundai Autron.The deal was approved by Mobis’ board on Friday and is worth 133.2 billion won.Hyundai Mobis will aim to grow is competence in designing, developing and evaluating semiconductor for automobiles, it said.Its main goal w

DRAM average sales price (ASP) is expected recover slightly in the first quarter, according to market research firm TrendForce.According to the research firm: Graphic DRAM will see increase between 5 to 10%. Server DRAM will stay flat or increase by 5%. Consumer DRAM will stay flat or increase by 8%