The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MSIT) have been jointly pursuing the next-generation semiconductor R&D project since last year and have finally passed the Preliminary Feasibility Study as confirmed on the 14th. As early as this month, an

AMOGREENTECH has announced its intention to achieve sales of 30 billion won in its battery business this year.On the 12th, AMOGREENTECH announced this goal at the IPO IR held for general investors at the Korea Exchange in Yeouido, Seoul. In addition to its flagship business, flexible printed circuit

Samsung Electronics has opened the new era of next-generation memory semiconductor, M-RAM. They are planning to expand built-in memory solutions by producing 1GB built-in M-RAM (eM-RAM) test chips within this year.Samsung Electronics had announced in March 6th that they have shipped a batch of eM-RA

Iljin Materials a secondary battery core material subsidiary of Iljin Group, announced on March 7th that they will invest 300 billion KRW for the second expansion of its Malaysian plant, which is their first overseas plant.Iljin Materials Co., will expand their second and third factories at the same

STI chose to appoint an executive from Samsung as their new CEO. It is considered as a move to strengthen their display business.On February 25, STI had made a proposal to appoint Lee Woo-suk as their new CEO at the general meeting of shareholders, which is going to be held on March 22. Kim Jung-you

Led by SK Hynix, it is likely that a 120 trillion won semiconductor cluster will be established in Yongin City, Gyeonggi-do. The parties including companies that will invest in the cluster have chosen Yongin. The race for the cluster among municipal governments nationwide will end, which is now rega

LG Innotek is expected to develop a triple camera to be installed on Apple’s iPhone this year.On the 15th, LG Innotek announced new facility investment of 282.1bn won. The investment targets the mobile camera module, and the investment objective is to strengthen its competitiveness in the optical so

The Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ car camera module will be supplied to Tesla, a US electric car company. Samsung Electro-Mechanics has been developing this project in conjunction with Samsung Semiconductor for two years.According to industry sources on the 15th, Samsung Electro-Mechanics has been mass

Gyo-Young Jin, the head (President) of the memory business division of Samsung Electronics Device Solution (DS) will assume the position of the 11th President of the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association.President Jin was elected as the President based on the unanimous vote by the board of direct

Amperex Technology Limited (ATL) of China has started to mass-produce batteries to be installed in Samsung Electronics' new wearable devices.According to the industry on November 11th, Samsung's Wireless Division will hold a Galaxy S10 public event in San Francisco, US on May 20th (local time). At t

"Half of Samsung's ultra-large TVs sold in Korea are 8K TVs. This year, the sales target is more than double-digit revenue growth in the premium TV market (typically priced at more than $2500). "Han Jong-Hee, President of Samsung Electronics Visual Display Business, said as such at the ‘QLED 8K’ key

Suprema, a company specialized in providing biometrics solutions such as fingerprint recognition algorithms, is expected to benefit from the commercialization of FOD (Fingerprint On Display) technology.An official from Suprema on 7th said, “we expect significant sales increase in the commercializati

DB HITEK has successfully commercialized the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) foundry process.DB HIitek announced on July 7 that it would acquire a MEMS-based microphone clients and start mass production this year. Although it did not disclose names of specific clients, it is said that it has e

Entegris, a specialist in semiconductor materials in the US, and Versum Materials announced on April 29th (local time) that they will unify as a merger of equals based on the unanimous decision of each company’s board of directors. This will create a semiconductor material company worth 10 trillion

SK Hynix's future growth direction is defined as artificial intelligence (AI). It has been reported that Vice Chairman Park Sung-Wook, who retired from being the SK Hynix CEO at the end of last year, gathered an organization to present the company’s R&D vision for AI as a future technology & growth

"Apart from the cloud infrastructure, we expect to see the era of 'On-Device AI', which will enable AI calculations on smart phones and autonomous vehicles. When this age arrives, the AI ​​age will be truly realized."Shim Eun-Su, Director of the AI ​​& SW Research Center of Samsung Electronics Advan

The United States is focusing on R&D of high-efficiency power semiconductors. The goal is to enhance the competitiveness of domestic manufacturing industries and improve energy efficiency by developing power semiconductors that will complement the disadvantages of existing silicon (Si) wafer-based s

"AI will evolve faster through heterogeneous systems, approximate computing, analog in-memory computing, and quantum computing." Myung-Hee Na, Distinguished Engineer of IBM Research, said as a keynote speaker at Semicon Korea 2019 held at COEX, Seoul on the 23rd.Engineer Na who presented on the them

"This year, Semicon Korea has the largest number of speakers, exhibitors, booths and visitors in its history. We will anticipate the dynamic changes of the semiconductor industry and present a new trend through this event," said Hyun-Dae Cho, CEO of SEMI Korea, at the press conference of Semicon Kor

Jim Feldhan, the CEO of market researching company Semico Research, started his presentation at a press conference on the opening day of Semicon Korea 2019 by explaining about the concept of ‘10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Minus 1-Year Treasury Constant Maturity (T10Y1Y)’Feldhan explained the ‘T