SK Hynix will apply peri under cell (PUC) technology to its next-generation phase-change RAM (PRAM), the company said on Wednesday.PRAM combines the advantages of DRAM and NAND flash. Intel retained its Optane business, which is based on PRAM technology, when it sold its NAND unit to SK Hynix. PRAM

Employees of SK Hynix dispatched to China had their quarantine period extended from two weeks to three, TheElec has learned.This is due to the cities of Wuhan and Chongqing, where the company has factories, extending the quarantine period to prevent the spread of COVID-19.A SK Hynix spokesperson sai

Analog Devices’ country manager post for South Korea has been vacant for a couple of months, with the company saying it has now intention of naming someone to the post for the short-term.Previous Head of Korea, Hong Sa-kwak, stepped down on October 2020. Analog Devices’ Asia Pacific (APAC) arm was o

SK Hynix said Monday that it has completed the construction of its M16 fab, which will produce next-generation DRAM using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process.The fab will begin producing Gen 4 10-nm (1a) DRAM in the second half of 2021, the company said.Construction for the factory began in November 2

Semiconductor IP company Chips&Media posted 15.4 billion won in sales and 2.38 billion won in operating profit in 2020, the company said.It is a drop of 4.6% and 33.8%, respectively, from 2019.The company said most of it sales come from the US and China. While China showed a quick recovery from the

SK Hynix will invest in facilities conservatively this year, the company’s CFO said at its conference call for the fourth quarter.CFO Jongwon Noh said the company will invest carefully, considering the persistent uncertainties from the COVID-19 pandemic and unfavorable exchange rate.Capital expendit

SK Hynix has requested South Korean semiconductor equipment makers TES and KCTech conduct research into developing semiconductor cleaning equipment, TheElec has learned. A person familiar with the matter said SK Hynix has been looking for a supplier to replace Mujin Electronics, which has previously

Yes Power Technix said on Thursday that it has received 26.8 billion won in funding from SK Holdings, the holding company of SK Group.SK Group will gain a 33.6% take in Yes Power Technix through the deal.Yes Power Technix, an affiliate of YEST, is the only company in South Korea that can design and

Qualcomm on Tuesday unveiled its fourth-generation Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit Platforms.The new chipset for automobile comes two years after the third-generation was launched back in January 2019.Previous dashboards of cars showed only the speed, fuel and driving information but Qualcomm’s platfo

Samsung Electronics is planning to expand the production of CMOS image sensors (CIS) by 20% this year, TheElec has learned.Last year, Samsung put in 100,000 wafers per month for the production of CIS. In 2021, the company plans to expand this to between 120,000 to 130,000 wafers per month.The South

Germany has asked Taiwan to persuade its local manufacturers to help ease a shortage of semiconductors in the automobile sector, Reuters reported on Sunday.German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier asked his Taiwanese counterpart Wang Mei-hua to address the issue in talks with TSMC, the world’s largest

MediaTek on Thursday announced the launch of Dimensity 1200 and Dimensity 1100 chipsets for 5G smartphones.The company said the new chips was 22% faster and 25% more power efficient than their predecessors made with 7nm process.They also have upgraded artificial intelligence (AI), camera and display

Intel will be manufacturing 7-nanometer (nm) CPU on its own starting in 2023, company CEO Bob Swan said at its fourth quarter conference call on Thursday.The company has been increasing research and development spending to develop 7nm since the second half of 2020, Swan said, and it was confident th

Texas Instrument on Thursday unveiled its wireless battery management system (BMS) concept at an online press conference in South Korea.The company is aiming to commercialize the solution in 2024.Texas Instrument will be supplying its Simplelink CC2662R-Q1 wireless microcontroller unit (MCU), BQ7961

ASML is planning to ship 40 extreme ultraviolet (EUV) systems this year, the company said at its fourth quarter conference call.Last year, the company shipped 31 EUV systems for sales of 4.5 billion euros, CEO Peter Wennink said.ASML is expecting sales of 5.8 billion euros from EUV systems in 2021,

Semiconductor package and test company Winpac begin uMCP packaging for SK Hynix, TheElec has said on Tuesday.uMCP combines mobile DRAM (LPDDR) and NAND Flash (in this case Universal Flash Storage) into one product. It has faster than eMCP and consumes less power. The chip is used in smart devices su

Auros Technology said on Friday that it was expecting new sales from Chinese semiconductor companies starting this year.It is also planning to form a research center at Silicon Valley in the US to recruit talents, the company said.Auros manufacturers semiconductor overlay measurement equipment. It l

Broadcom is supplying its Wi-Fi 6E chip BCM4389 to Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphone, the company said.The S21 Ultra is the first ever phone to support Wi-Fi 6E.Wi-Fi 6E adds 6GHz spectrum to Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax). This allows Wi-Fi 6E to support up to 2.4Gbps speed, double that of Wi-Fi 6’s 1.2Gbps.

South Korean firms Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix has ranked second and third place, respectively, in worldwide semiconductor sales in 2020, according market research firm Gartner.Samsung marked US$56.197 billion in semiconductor sales, a rise of 7.7% from 2019. The company had a market share of 1

Intel announced on Wednesday that CEO Bob Swan will step down on February 15 and be replaced with Vmware CEO Pat Gelsinger.Swan joined Intel as a CFO in 2016, he was CFO at eBay for 9 years prior to joining. After previous CEO Brian Krzanich was fired in 2018, Swan took over as interim CEO for seven