SK Hynix on Tuesday denied online rumors that alleged the company suffered billions of dollars in losses due to defective DRAMs.An online post claiming the Korean memory giant suffered 2 trillion won in losses due to 240,000 DRAM wafers turning up defective recently during production spread in vario

Chip testing firm Itek will collaborate with chip packaging company Unichips to enter the Chinese market.Itek said on Tuesday that the pair will share market information and analysis of the Chinese market to enter the semiconductor testing sector there.Itek’s focus in on testing system semiconductor

AI chip firm Graphcore said on Monday that it will be supplying its intelligence processing unit (IPU)-point of delivery (POD) system to NHN for the latter’s data center being built at Gwangju.The IPU can handle around 9,000 independent parallel processing threats through 1,472 parallel processing c

South Korean fab equipment firm Hanmi Semiconductor said on Monday that it has completed a new factory to manufacture dual-chuck saw used in chip packaging.The factory was built at an industrial park at Incheon and will manufacture Hanmi’s dual-chuck saws, called Micro Saw by the company.The new fac

Texas Instruments was the largest analog semiconductor company in terms of revenue last year, according to market research firm IC Insights.The US chip firm recorded US$10.9 billion in sales from its analog chip business. It was a 6% increase year-on-year and was 75% of its total sales of US$14.9 bi

Abov Semiconductor will be given 5.5 billion won in financial support for the next three years from the South Korean government to develop its wireless charging technology.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Friday that it has selected the company as one of the fabless chip firms it s

Fab equipment sales from South Korea reached US$7.31 billion in the first quarter of 2021, according to SEMI.This was an 118% increase from the US$3.36 billion of the year prior.It was also an increase of 82% from the previous quarter’s US$4.02 billion.The surge is likely due to the increased spendi

Samsung Electronics has launched a new SSD to with Zoned Namespace (ZNS) technology applied.PM1731a is built with Samsung’s Gen 6 V-NAND and comes in 4TB and 2TB storage options.It will come in 2.5-inch form, with mass production beginning in the second half of the year, the company said.It is Samsu

Hanmi Semiconductor on Wednesday said it has succeeded in the development of dual-chuck saw used in semiconductor packaging.The saw is called Micro Saw by the company and will be offered with 18-months free warranty, Hanmi said.Japanese companies dominate the semiconductor packaging saw sector with

Hyundai Mobis, the component arm of Hyundai Motor Group, was in talks with South Korean fabless chip and design house companies to develop its own automobile semiconductor, TheElec has learned.The project is called ES Project internally. ES stands for Eui-sun, the first name of Hyundai Motor Group c

South Korean memory packaging and testing companies saw their earnings drop in the first quarter of 2021 as SK Hynix continues to internalize more of its own packaging and testing.In contrast, packaging and testing companies that services logic chips saw their earnings improve in the same time perio

Prices of DRAM and NAND flash that spiked in April has flattened in May.Fixed price of DDR4 8Gb PC DRAM was US$3.8 in May, same as it was in April, according to DRAMeXchange.Conventionally, the price of memory in the second month of a quarter remains the same as the first month when new contracts ar

Nextchip said on Tuesday that it has received the ISO26262 Functional Safety Management (FSM) certificate from production certification firm Exida.Nextchip said it can now develop semiconductors that meet Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) requirements.The firm said it has been preparing for F

System semiconductor firm Telechips said on Tuesday that it is supplying its automobile system-on-a-chip (SoC) Dolphin Plus to Avtovaz, the Russian car brand under Renault Group.Dolphin Plus is used to power audio, video and navigation (AVN) system on cars.The SoC is applied to Avtovaz’ Lada Enjoy P

Silicon photonics market was worth US$87 million in 2020 but will grow to be worth US$1.1 billion by 2026, according to market research firm Yole Development.The market will grow on average 49% per year during that time, the firm said.Data center will account for the most in the global silicon photo

LB Lusem said on Monday that it has finalized its share price to 14,000 won for its upcoming IPO on KOSDAQ.The first last week commenced a demand forecast for 4.5 million shares for institutional investors.A total of 1,596 investors partook in the forecast, Korea Invest & Securities, which is underw

Intel on Monday unveiled its new Gen 11 Intel Core mobile U-series mobile processors as well its first 5G modem for PC at Computex.The new processors, i7-1195G7 and i5-1155G7, are for “thin-and-light” notebooks and offers 5GHz speed.Intel claimed they offer up to 25% higher application performance c

Chip component and material firm Mecaro said on Monday that it was merging with its subsidiary KVTS.The new shares will be issued. The merger will be completed in August 1. KVTS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mecaro.KVTS makes special valves, RTP lamp housing and Hot N2 for semiconductors.It had su

More consumers are showing interest in smartphone audio and OEMs are working to improve audio sound quality in their products, according to audio chip firm Cirrus Logic.This has increased the number of amplifiers in smartphones and tablets throughout the years, Cirrus Logic vice president of mixed-s

System semiconductor design company Coasia said on Friday that it will sell its majority stake acoustic component subsidiary BSE.The company will sell its 68.75% stake to an unknown party for 31.8 billion won.Earlier in December, it had sold 31.25% stake for 14 billion won.Coasia said it was selling