The worldwide semiconductor industry is showing clear signs of a recovery.According to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), the US trade body, worldwide semiconductor revenues jumped 15.2% on-year to US$137.7 billion in the first quarter. Revenues dropped 5.7% from the fourth quarter.The on

Qualtias Semiconductor said on Tuesday that it will raise 59.5 billion won through a share offering.Out of the total, 57.5 billion won will be spent up to 2027 for the research and development of new chip IPs, the company said,49.5 billion won will be spent on next-generation products and the applic

Intel has secured the majority of high-NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) equipment that ASML is manufacturing up to the first half of next year, TheElec has learned,The Dutch fab equipment maker is manufacturing five units of the kit this year, which will all go to the US chipmaker, sources said.As ASML’

Samsung is taking a two-track approach to its development of high-bandwidth memory (HBM).The company’s newly formed HBM development team, which was turned into a permanent office from a task force in March, is focusing on the development of HBM4, sources said. HBM4 is the sixth-generation iteration

SK Hynix expects to hit an accumulated revenue of mid-US$10 billion in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) sales by the end of 2024.The memory maker has already sold out its HBM capacity for the year as well as those for 2025, SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung said during a press conference on Thursday at the comp

SK Hynix is testing the performance of Tokyo Electron’s cryogenic etching equipment, TheElec has learned.The South Korean memory chipmaker has sent test wafers to the fab equipment maker for the tests instead of installing them in its own fab, sources said.Tokyo Electron’s new kit etches at high spe

Samsung’s chip division has returned to profitability in the first quarter on the back of the recovery of the memory chip market.The South Korean electronics maker said on Tuesday that it recorded 71.92 trillion won in revenue and 6.61 trillion won in operating profit, an increase of 13% and 932%, r

South Korean chemical giant LG Chem was testing its own build-up film with a potential flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) customer, a company researcher said.Builder-up films are an insulating film used in chip packages such as FC-BGA and glass substrates.The industry mostly uses Ajinomoto Build-Up

A national project to promote the development of advanced technologies in chip packaging has been passed by the South Korean government, TheElec has learned.It passed the preliminary feasibility review of Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning, a government think tank to set policies for sci

Samsung was considering applying metal oxide resist (MOR) during the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography process for its next-generation DRAM, TheElec has learned.MOR is considered the next-generation photoresist (PR) to the chemically amplified resist (CAR) currently used in the lithography of ad

SK Hynix has beat market estimates on its latest earnings on the back of rising prices of memory chip prices and strong sales of high-bandwidth memory (HBM).The South Korean chip giant said on Thursday that it recorded 12.42 trillion won in revenue and 2.88 trillion won in operating income in the fi

South Korean chip assembly and test firm LB Semicon is aiming to reduce its reliance on display driver IC (DDI) for growth.LB Semicon vice president Kim Jeong-kyu told TheElec that last year was a time of reflection on what business areas it has invested in to plan where it wants to invest in the fu

Samsung said on Tuesday that it has begun mass production of 1Tb triple-level cell (TLC) Gen 9 V-NAND.The chip has a double stack structure, which is in contrast to rival SK Hynix’s Gen 9 V-NAND which is expected to have a triple stack structure.This means Samsung will have an advantage in cost whil

Battery and display production equipment maker Philoptics said on Tuesday that it has supplied a piece of laser equipment to a chipmaker’s trial line for use in the production of a glass substrate.The equipment, called Through Glass Via (TGV), based on laser, was supplied to the potential customer l

Samsung’s smartphone business is planning to use OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) from Sony for its extended reality (XR) device, TheElec has learned.Samsung MX Business’ decision to use the Japanese company’s technology over its affiliate Samsung Display, which has also been developing its own OLEDoS techn

SK Hynix is planning to use TSMC’s base die technology for its next-generation high bandwidth memory (HBM).The South Korean memory maker used its own process to make the base die for its latest HBM3E.For the follow-up HBM4, which will start mass production in 2026, SK Hynix will use TSMC’s advanced

Fab equipment maker PSK has succeeded in nullifying two out of three patents of Lam Research related to bevel etchers.South Korea’s highest court upheld an appellate court decision made last year that Lam Research's two patents were invalid.While the pair are fighting over another three patents at t

3M is aiming to quadruple its revenue from chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) pads by 300% in three years.Yang Yong-suk, technical supervisor of electronic material at 3M Korea, said during a local event hosted by the company said transistors in advanced nodes were going to nano-scale but results w

South Korea’s export of semiconductors climbed for the fifth consecutive month as of March.Total semiconductor exports hit US$11.69 billion in March, an increase of 33.9% from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Science and ICT.Memory chips accounted for US$7.45 billion, with system chips a

“That promise has been kept,” Li Mei, the chairperson of Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission, told the parliament in December of last year.They were responding to a question on whether US chip giant Qualcomm kept its promise to invest $700 million in the country.The company, known for its Snapdragon proc