SK Hynix recorded its highest operating profit in six years in the second quarter of this year.The South Korean memory maker said it recorded 16.42 trillion won in revenue and 5.46 trillion won in operating profit in the quarter. It also recorded a net income of 4.12 trillion won.The quarterly reven

SK Hynix has replaced the gas it uses in some of its cleaning process steps in chip production with a more environmentally friendly gas.According to the chipmaker’s sustainability report for 2024, the company conducted tests to replace nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) with a gas with low global warming po

Finland’s Vaisala held a rare product briefing session at Samsung SDI’s facility in Cheonan, South Korea last week, TheElec has learned. The move by the Finnish sensor maker is likely in response to Samsung SDI’s move to adopt chilled-mirror sensors and shift away from capacitive humidity sensors in

Hanwha Precision Machinery expects its back-end fab equipment business unit to turn to the black next year.Parent company Hanwha Aerospace also said in its filings to financial authorities earlier this month that Hanwha Precision Machinery’s front-end and back-end fab equipment business units togeth

Namhae Chemical’s subsidiary NES Materials has supplied a prototype high-purity sulfuric acid to Samsung for use in chip production.H2SO4, which used to clean wafers, is going through a performance test by the South Korean tech giant, sources said.NES Materials is a joint venture formed in 2021 by N

Samsung has vastly increased the number of Galaxy Ring it plans to manufacture than initially this year due to the positive reception of the device, TheElec has learned.The company initially planned to manufacture 400,000 units than adjust the volume after seeing the market reception for the smart r

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Monday that it will supply high-performance chip boards for hyperscale data centers to AMD.The chip boards refer to flip chip-ball grid array (FC-BGA) and it is the first time Samsung Electro-Mechanics is confirming the deal officially.Hyperscale data centers refer

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