Hanmi Semiconductor is expected to post record third quarter sales thanks to its supply to Skyworks Solutions, a vendor of 5G chips to Apple.The South Korean semiconductor equipment maker is expected to post sales of around 70 billion in the third quarter, according to South Korean analysts.Hanmi po

Semiconductor equipment maker ASML posted sales of 3.958 billion euros in the third quarter, a rise of 32% year over year.The extreme ultraviolet (EUV) exposure equipment maker posted operating profits of 1.216 billion euros, an operating margin rate of 30.7% and rise of 77% year over year.ASML said

Samsung Electronics is considering investing into its 200mm semiconductor wafer production lines to make it semi-autonomous, TheElec has learned.The conglomerate’s 300mm wafer lines are currently fully automated. Wafers are transferred from chamber to chamber using over head transport machines.Howev

Semiconductor and display particle contamination monitoring equipment maker Withtech was in talks with YMTC of China and TSMC of Taiwan for a potential supply deal, the company said on Tuesday.Overseas clients account for 47% of the company’s sales __ it plans to expand this further buy winning more

Nextchip has received the CMMI V2.0 Level 3 certification, the company said on Monday.Maturity Level 3 proves that the company’s competence in the automotive sector, it said.Nextchip received the CMMI V1.3 Level 3 certification back in 2014. The company was the first in South Korea to receive the ap

Microcontroller unit (MCU) fabless company ABOV Semiconductor will expand into edge artificial intelligence (AI) for growth going forward, the company said.Company vice president Jae C. Son said it will create solutions optimized for the edge AI computing era, at an online forum held by Sungkyunkwan

Worldwide semiconductor sales reached US$36.2 billion in the month of August, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).It is a rise of 4.9% year over year and an increase of 3.6% from July.It is also the seventh straight month of growth.The rise in the Americas was most noticeable.

Intel’s Fab 42 in Arizona has begun operation last week, the company said.It is the US chip giant’s third 10-nanometer (nm) fab. Construction began in 2011 and Intel spent US$23 billion for its construction.Intel has additional 10nm fabs in Oregon in the US and in Israel.Fab 42 has equipment that su

System semiconductor startup SKAi Chips has received 1.6 billion won in investment from a listed South Korean fabless company in its Series A funding round, the company said on Wednesday.The investment was thanks to SKAi’s competence in analog mixed signal chip designs, the startup said.SKAi Chips s

SK Hynix has launched its second generation 10-nanometer (nm) DDR5 DRAM, the company said.DDR5 standard was first announced in July by JEDEC.The company’s DDR5 DRAM supports data transfer rate of 4,800 ~ 5,600 Megabit-per-second (Mbps), which is 1.8 times faster than the previous generation DDR4.Ope

Ex-Hynix employees were collaborating with the local Chinese government at Chengdu to acquire GlobalFoundaries’ factory there, according to local media reports.Local company Jinsemi, which has former Hynix Semiconductor vice president Choi Jin-seok as CEO, and the Chengdu city government has a joint

DRAM and NAND Flash prices are expected to remain throughout the remainder of 2020.According to DRAMeXchange, PC DDR4 8Gb DRAM had a contract price of US$3.13 as of September, same as the price of August.USB 128Gb MLC NAND Flash contract price was also fixed at US$4.35 as of September, same as Augus

Hanmi Semiconductor has opened a new production line for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding equipment for use in 5G chips, the company said.The factory is named NK Kwak Hall after the company’s chairman.The line for EMI shielding equipment will in the first floor of its new three story fac

Rear occupant alert (ROA) installation on automobiles is set to become a legal requirement globally.Companies like Texas Instrument, Infineon Technologies, VayaVision and Socionext with monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) technology for radars will likely now compete intensively for the o

Nepes Ark has passed the initial review to go public on KOSDAQ, the company said on Monday.The company will be receiving orders before the listing expected on November, it said.Nepes Ark is a split-off of Nepes’ semiconductor business. It was founded in April 1, 2019.The company tests semiconductor

The global foundry market will show its strongest growth in six years in 2020 thanks to demand for 5G mobile chips, according to research firm IC Insights.The pure foundry market will grow by 19% year over year this year to US$66.7 billion, the firm said. In 2014 the market grew by 18% year over yea

Telechips will began development of a semiconductor chip for use in advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) for autonomous cars, the company said.The neural processing unit (NPU) based ADAS neural dolphin application processor will began development in October at the earliest, Telechips said.The ch

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said Vehicular Solutions Innovated (VSI) has become the first company to receive investment from its system semiconductor co-growth fund.VSI received 1.5 billion won in funding.The ministry created the 100 billion won fund in April. Samsung Electronics put

Global Zeus has formed a new production firm in South Korea and will wrap up construction of a semiconductor wafer testing factory by the end of the year, the company said.The newly formed company, based at Hwaseong, will make batch-type semiconductor production equipment.Zeus will bring in technolo

Nextin has set its share offering price at 75,400 won, the company said on Wednesday. The South Korean equipment maker will be seeking to secure 24.1 billion won in funding from listing.The company commenced a demand forecast for institutional investors from September 18 to 21.Most of the investors