Global fab equipment revenue is expected to reach US$109 billion this year, according to SEMI.This is expected to increase 17% next year to US$120 billion in 2025, the organization said.Wafer fab equipment will account for US$98 billion of this year’s total, and increase 14.7% to account for US$113

Samsung’s 2-nanometer (nm) process node will have 30% more extreme ultraviolet (EUV) layers compared to 3nm, TheElec has learned.The company’s 3nm node had 20 EUV layers but this has been increased to late-20 layers for 2nm, sources said.Samsung’s 1.4nm, which is slated to start production in 2017,

Semiconductor packaging firm Genesem has supplied its next-generation hybrid bonding equipment to chipmaker SK Hynix for use in the production of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), TheElec has learned.Genesem has supplied two units of the equipment which were installed at SK Hynix’s pilot fab to test hybr

Battery material maker EcoPro is planning to build its own battery cell production line, TheElec has learned.The line is being made not for commercial production but for research and development of materials such as cathode, separator, current collector, and electrolyte.EcoPro has already started fo

Doosan Tesna will secure chip packaging capability for synergy with its existing chip testing business, Doosan Group said.The goal is to foster the company into am integrated outsourced semiconductor assembly and test company, the group said.This likely means its wants to offer wafer test, packaging

Wireless security solution provider Gitsn is planning to list on Kosdaq on the back of its projected high growth rate this year.Gitsn CEO Han Dong-jin said the company expects an 80% year-on-year growth in revenue from strong sales of its wireless security solutions.Its revenue from sales of wireles

Alphawave Semi is planning to form an office in South Korea to strengthen IP sales to local fabless chip companies, TheElec has learned.Currently, it has a few staff stationed in the country and its headquarters directly supports its fabless and design house customers here.Alphawave Semi, a chipless

Fadu will have sales ownership of the Compute Express Link (CXL) switch chip developed by its subsidiary Eeum.Eeum CEO Jinki Han said the subsidiary will define the hardware model and architecture of the chip.Then, Fadu will takeover the resister transfer level coding and oversee production and sale

Semiconductors going forward will stack transistors on top of each other, Jusung Engineering chairman Chul Joo Hwang said.This is because scaling DRAM and logic chips are reaching their limits so DRAM and logic chips will, like NAND, stack transistors on top of each other to overcome this, the chair

KCTech’s supercritical fluid cleaner was being evaluated by SK Hynix for use in its DRAM production line, TheElec has learned.SK Hynix has been procuring this equipment from Tokyo Electron, so if KCTech passes the evaluation it will become a secondary supplier, sources said.KCTech is expected to pas

LG Energy Solution is planning to build its most advanced battery production line yet at its Ochang factory, TheElec has learned.It is its seventh pilot line at the factory and will be completed in October.The line will use smart factory technologies and manufacture pouch batteries, sources said.Tho

Nepes has decided to sell its loss-ridden chip package arm. It has notified private equity funds that has provided loans to Nepes Laweh that it plans to restructure and sell the business, sources said.Nepes plans to leave the bare minimum of researchers at Nepes Laweh then sell it, they said. Nepes

Fab equipment maker Neosem has supplied new inspection equipment for use in Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0 memory production, becoming the first company to do so, TheElec has learned.The customer is Samsung and the equipment is used to determine whether memory modules that support CXL 2.0 are operat

Samsung was developing a new chip package technology to prevent overheating in application processors (AP), TheElce has learned.The package attaches a heat path block, or HPB, on top of the SoC, and is expected to be used on future Exynos chips, sources said.The technology, called by its full name f

LG Energy Solution will be supplying lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries to Renault’s EV arm Ampere.The South Korean battery maker said it will be supplying 39GWh worth of batteries for five years starting in late 2025.This is enough for 590,000 units of EVs, the company said. LG Energy Solution

Samsung is applying molybdenum in the metalization process of its Gen 9 V-NAND, TheElec has learned.The company has brought in five units of Mo deposition machines from Lam Research for the process, sources said.The South Korean tech giant is planning to bring in twenty additional units next year, t

Yujin Technology was developing battery notching and stacking equipment, TheElec has learned.It marks the company’s entry into the battery production equipment business, as it has only offered components and materials for batteries so far.Notching is used to make the positive and negative tabs of th

Fabless chip firm LX Semicon is entering the intelligent power module (IPM) market, TheElec has learned.The company has succeeded in developing a 600volt (V) IPM for use in home appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines, and air conditioners and was in talks with LG Electronics for a supply

Hyundai Motor is planning to use press notching instead of laser in its latest joint battery factory with LG Energy Solution in the US, TheElec has learned.The factory, operated by the pair’s joint venture HL-GA, will use notching, much like HLI Green Power, Hyundai Motor’s joint venture with LG Ene

Micron said its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production capacity has been sold out up to 2025.Previously, SK Hynix also said it sold out its HBM production capacity up to next year.Micron said it recorded US$6.811 billion in revenue in its latest fiscal quarter running from March to May, an increase