Hyundai Motor will install Nvidia Drive-based connected car operating system (ccOS) in all its car models launching in 2022.The OS will be applied to all Hyundai, Kia and Genesys brand cars, from the entry level to the premium level.Hyundai and Nvidia has been collaborating on the technology since 2

U-blox is planning to expand its GNSS business to include wearables.Its GNSS platform aimed at wearables, called M10, was launched worldwide on November 6.U-blox’s Korea country manager KS Son said while the company focused on products from automobile in the past, the new M10 was made with both cons

Semiconductor package boding wire company MK Electron is expanding its supply of solder paste, tape and film, TheElec has confirmed.The company is seeing “meaningful” sales from solder paste and electro magnetic interference (EMI) shielding disposable films, a MK Electron official said.The materials

China’s SmartSens has secured US$225 million in investment in its latest funding round, the company said on Friday.The firm will focus on developing chip architecture for CMOS image sensors (CIS) with the latest funds.State-owned China Integrated Circuit Investment Fund, Xiaomi Changing Industrial F

SK Hynix will triple its sales from its NAND flash memory business in the next five years following its acquisition of Intel’s NAND unit, company CEO Lee Seok-hee said on Wednesday.Speaking at the company’s third quarters conference call, Lee said the company aims to become a top memory player, not

SK Hynix has posted operating profit of 1.29 trillion won and sales of 8.12 trillion won in the third quarter.It is a rise of 175% and 18.9%, respectively, year-on-year, the South Korean firm said.Net income also stood a 1.07 trillion won.Huawei’s inventory buildup prior to US sanctions taking effec

Semes, the semiconductor and display equipment making subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, is expected to post over 2 trillion won in full year sales for 2020, the company CEO told TheElec.Semes CEO Kang Chang-jin said the company has already surpassed the 2 trillion won mark as of end of October.This

Samsung Electronics has invested around 74 billion won into four local semiconductor material, component and equipment companies.The companies are KCTech, Mico Ceramics, LOTVacuum and New Power Plasma __ Samsung put in equity investments of 20.7 billion won, 21.6 billion won, 18.9 billion won and 12

Prices of DRAM and NAND flash memories nosedived in October, likely due to the US sanctions against Huawei taking into effect.According to DRAMeXchange, fixed prices of PC DDR4 8Gb fell 8.9% in October compared to September to US$2.85.This differs from August and September when the price remained st

Semiconductor testing equipment maker Exicon is expanding its supply of DDR5 DRAM testing kit to Samsung Electronics, TheElec has learned.Exicon has supplying its DDR5 DRAM testing kit, the i1520, since late last year.Its latest kit, to be supplied to Samsung, can test DDR3, DDR4 and DDR5 for PC as

SK Hynix CEO Lee Seok-hee said on Thursday that he doesn’t believe the acquisition price for Intel’s NAND unit was expensive.Lee was responding to questions from reporters following a local tradeshow.The CEO said the price of US$9 billion reflects Intel’s competence in solid-state drives (SSD) and i

AMD will buy rival semiconductor company Xilinx in an all-stock deal worth US$35 billion, the pair announced on Tuesday.AMD to will likely leverage Xilinx’s field programmable gate array (FPGA) to increase its competence in offerings for data centers and machine learning.Xilinx stockholders will rec

Semiconductor IP company Chips&Media saw its operating profits rise 25% year over year in the third quarter of 2020.The company said it posted 1.3 billion won in operating profits and 4.8 billion won in sales in the quarter.The company secured a new US client __ which is one of the top ten semicondu

US materials company Inpria has begun production of MOx-based inorganic photoresist (PR).Its high volume manufacturing facility has gone live recently and the company will be able to service the demand for inorganic PR, Inpria CEO Andrew Grenvile said at SMC 2020 hosted by SEMI.The facility has a pr

Semiconductor exposure component maker FST will launch pellicles for use in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process next year, the company said on Tuesday.The company will launch a full size EUV pellicle based on silicon carbide (SiC), 30-nanometer (nm) thick and with 90% transmittance in the first quarte

SK Hynix will acquire Intel’s NAND memory and storage business for $9 billion, the South Korean memory maker said on Tuesday.The transaction includes the US chip giant’s NAND SSD business, NAND component and wafer business and its Dalian NAND memory chip facility in China.Intel will retain its Optan

Hanmi Semiconductor has posted its highest every quarterly profits in the third quarter of 2020.The company posted operating profits of 24.9 billion won and sales of 77.9 billion won in the quarter. It is an operating margin rate of 32%.It was Hanmi’s best performance since its founding in 1980, the

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