SK Hynix’s acquisition of Intel’s NAND unit has secured the approval from authorities in Brazil.Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense said it found that the deal didn’t hurt fair market competition.In October last year, SK Hynix announced that it was acquiring Intel’s NAND and SSD bus

SiFive announced two new RISC-V cores called P550 and P270. P550 will be used for the first time in Intel’s 7-nanometer (nm) CPU codenamed Horse Creek, which will launch sometime between 2022 and 2023.In March, Intel had said its 7nm CPU Meteor Lake will enter tape-in stage in the second quarter of

Fabless company Eyenix said on Thursday that it will be supplying its internet protocol (IP) camera SoC EN675 series for CCTVs to Seyeon Tech, Cellinx Systems, and Webgate.EN675 SoC will be used in two IP security cameras that Seyeon Tech will launch at the end of June, a Eyenix spokesperson said.Th

A total of 19 new fabs will start construction by the end of 2021, according to SEMI.An additional 10 more fabs are expected to start construction next year, the organization said.These fabs, when completed, in total will add production capacity equal to 2.6 million 200mm wafers per month, SEMI said

Semiconductor design solution firm ADTechnology is planning to form a subsidiary at San Hose, California by July, TheElec has learned.The US arm will be led by Lee Young-bae, who was previously an executive at Samsung Foundry.ADTechnology is also planning to form a regional office at Shanghai, China

3D image and sensing market will begin growing fast again in 2023 after years of slow growth, according to market research firm Yole Development.The 3D sensing market was worth US$6.5 billion in 2020, which was only 80% of the research firm’s earlier forecast.This was due to less use of time of flig

Display driver IC demand will increase 7.4% in 2020 from a year prior, according to market research firm TrendForce.However, supply of the chips will increase only 2.5% over the same time period, which will continue the shortage over them, the firm said.This is because most 8-inch foundry capacities

Chip inspection equipment firm Intekplus said on Friday that it will spend 8 billion won to build a new factory at Daejeon.This will double its production capacity and allow to meet the current high demand from the semiconductor industry, the company said.Once the new factory goes live next year, In

Nexperia said on Thursday that it will spend US$700 million for next 12 to 15 months to expand its chip production capacity.The money will be spent to at its European wafer fabs, assembly factories in Asia, and global research facilities.Research will include those into gallium nitride (GaN) wide ba

AI chip firm Graphcore will start collaborating with South Korean IT service firm NHN in AI cloud service starting this month.Under their partnership, Graphcore will not only be supplying its intelligence processing unit (IPU), but the pair will be co-developing OpenStack technology, Graphcore count

High performance computing (HPC) sector is expected to lead the growth of chip fan-out packaging market this year, according to data from Yole Development.Application processors (AP) for smartphones and smartwatches accounted for the majority of the fan-out packaging market last year.Starting this y

Samsung said on Tuesday that it has begun mass production of its LPDDR5 UFS-based multichip package (uMCP).The package integrates LPDDR5 DRAM with UFS 3.1 NAND flash.The high spec is for flagship 5G smartphones, Samsung said. The LPDDR5 mobile DRAM offers 25GB/s read and write team, which is 1.5 tim

Sung Chung, the CTO of chip reliability testing firm QRT, told TheElec that semiconductors used in automobiles must have equal reliability levels to their counterparts used in satellites and in space.Automobile chips require high levels of soft error evaluation as automobile reliability is directly

Chip testing firm APACT said on Monday that it plans to start a new system semiconductor backend business for new growth.The company will open a new sales office in Pangyo to start the business in full-scale, it said.APACT will place sales personnel and engineers at the new office to aggressively wi

Biolog Device said on Friday that it will inject an additional 1.75 billion won into Hivics, which it has acquired last month.The added funds will be used by Hivics to hire doctorate engineers specializing in electric cars, autonomous cars, AI and IoT, Biolog Device said.Hivics will also hire more p

SK Hynix’s plan to buy Intel’s NAND business unit was approved by antitrust authorities in Taiwan on Thursday.The approval follows those made in the US, Europe and South Korea.Last year in October, SK Hynix had announced that it plans to buy Intel’s NAND and solid-state drive business units for US$9

X-ray inspection company Xavis was chosen by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy to get government making to develop a chip inspection kit.Xavis will receive 3 billion won in funding up to 2024 to develop its under 25-nanometer high-resolution 3D X-ray nondestructive semiconductor inspection

DRAM and NAND flash prices are expected to increase again in the third quarter as they did in the second quarter, according to market research firm TrendForce.DRAM prices are expected to increase between 3% to 8% in the third quarter, the firm said.DRAM prices increased between 18% to 23% in the sec

Surplus Global, a South Korean pre-owned fab equipment seller, said on Wednesday that it was seeing explosive demand for equipment from the chip industry in light the global chip shortage.CEO Brian Kim told TheElec that Surplus Global’s growth this year is expected to exceed that of the average grow

Samsung on Tuesday said it has developed an 8-nanometer (nm) foundry process for RF chips.RF chip changes the digital signal from the modem chip into analog, converting them to the wireless frequency we can use.Samsung said its 8nm RF foundry makes the RF chip 35% smaller compared to the 14nm proces