SK Hynix has launched its second generation 10-nanometer (nm) DDR5 DRAM, the company said.DDR5 standard was first announced in July by JEDEC.The company’s DDR5 DRAM supports data transfer rate of 4,800 ~ 5,600 Megabit-per-second (Mbps), which is 1.8 times faster than the previous generation DDR4.Ope

Ex-Hynix employees were collaborating with the local Chinese government at Chengdu to acquire GlobalFoundaries’ factory there, according to local media reports.Local company Jinsemi, which has former Hynix Semiconductor vice president Choi Jin-seok as CEO, and the Chengdu city government has a joint

DRAM and NAND Flash prices are expected to remain throughout the remainder of 2020.According to DRAMeXchange, PC DDR4 8Gb DRAM had a contract price of US$3.13 as of September, same as the price of August.USB 128Gb MLC NAND Flash contract price was also fixed at US$4.35 as of September, same as Augus

Hanmi Semiconductor has opened a new production line for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding equipment for use in 5G chips, the company said.The factory is named NK Kwak Hall after the company’s chairman.The line for EMI shielding equipment will in the first floor of its new three story fac

Rear occupant alert (ROA) installation on automobiles is set to become a legal requirement globally.Companies like Texas Instrument, Infineon Technologies, VayaVision and Socionext with monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) technology for radars will likely now compete intensively for the o

Nepes Ark has passed the initial review to go public on KOSDAQ, the company said on Monday.The company will be receiving orders before the listing expected on November, it said.Nepes Ark is a split-off of Nepes’ semiconductor business. It was founded in April 1, 2019.The company tests semiconductor

The global foundry market will show its strongest growth in six years in 2020 thanks to demand for 5G mobile chips, according to research firm IC Insights.The pure foundry market will grow by 19% year over year this year to US$66.7 billion, the firm said. In 2014 the market grew by 18% year over yea

Telechips will began development of a semiconductor chip for use in advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) for autonomous cars, the company said.The neural processing unit (NPU) based ADAS neural dolphin application processor will began development in October at the earliest, Telechips said.The ch

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said Vehicular Solutions Innovated (VSI) has become the first company to receive investment from its system semiconductor co-growth fund.VSI received 1.5 billion won in funding.The ministry created the 100 billion won fund in April. Samsung Electronics put

Global Zeus has formed a new production firm in South Korea and will wrap up construction of a semiconductor wafer testing factory by the end of the year, the company said.The newly formed company, based at Hwaseong, will make batch-type semiconductor production equipment.Zeus will bring in technolo

Nextin has set its share offering price at 75,400 won, the company said on Wednesday. The South Korean equipment maker will be seeking to secure 24.1 billion won in funding from listing.The company commenced a demand forecast for institutional investors from September 18 to 21.Most of the investors

Seven South Korean system semiconductor firms touted their investments at a local conference hosted by the government on Wednesday.Semiconductor IR Conference 2020 was hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology and the Korea Semicond

Semiconductor export is expected to recover in the fourth quarter, according to report published by the Korea International Trade Association (KITA).But it won’t be all roses due to the economic state of export destination countries, US sanctions against Huawei and price drops of server memory chips

SK Hynix and Hanwha Precision Machinery has developed a die bonder used in the back-end of semiconductor production.Die bonders bonds the chip die to the printed circuit board. It is one of the most sophisticated equipment used in chip production lines.South Korean companies has relied on Japanese s

The global smartphone application processor (AP) sales dropped 26% year over year in the second quarter due to low sales of smartphones caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to market research firm CounterPoint.Leader Qualcomm saw its market share drop while Chinese vendors HiSilicon and MediaT

SiFive will unveil a PC based on its RISC-V core at the Linley Fall Processor Conference 2020 on October 27, the company said.SiFive was founded by UC Berkeley professors Krste Asanovic, Andrew Waterman and Yunsup Lee in 2015.The three unveiled RISC-V, an open source CPU instruction set architecture

Qualcomm has launched its high-performance AI inference accelerator Cloud AI 100, the company said.It will also be providing the edge development kit.Cloud AI 100 will provide advanced signal processing and power efficiency to support for AI solutions from data centers, cloud edge, edge appliance an

Xilinx is aiming to expand into 5G network virtualization band market of South Korea.The company unveiled its T1 Telco Accelerator Card via an online conference on Wednesday for the South Korean market.T1 is a micro accelerator card for O-RAN distributed unit (O-DU) and virtual baseband unit (vBBU).

Nextin will challenge KLA in the global semiconductor inspection equipment market, the CEO of the South Korean company said on Thursday.CEO Tae Hoon Park said the company will strengthen its technology to compete with KLA, the US company that dominates in dark-field inspection equipment. In South Ko

Apple has unveiled its 5 nanomter (nm) application processor the A14 Bionic.The chip will power iPad Air unveiled on Wednesday and will likely power the upcoming iPhone 12 series to be unveiled next month.A14 Bionic is Apple’s first AP made with the 5nm process. A13 Bionics launched last year was ba