Samsung Electronics has expanded its plan to apply pellicles during the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process used in wafer fabrication starting in 2023, TheElec has learned.The company intended to use pellicles for the wafer fabrication of certain high-value chips, but is now planning to apply it to al

Enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) contract prices are expected to increase 15% in the third quarter compared to the second quarter, according to market research firm TrendForce.Demand for SSDs are expected to increase from global data center companies expanding their servers.SSDs are more and more

TSMC secured approval from Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration to build a new fab in the country, according to a report by Nikkei on Wednesday.The fab will built at Hsinchu Science Park close to the headquarters of the world’s largest foundry company.TSMC has been working to build an R&

Samsung Electronics recorded 63.67 trillion won in revenue during the second quarter, its highest to date for the quarter.Memory semiconductors led the growth while TV and appliances are posted strong earnings.However, its mobile business recorded lackluster earnings.Samsung said on Thursday that it

Intel said on Monday that it has secured Qualcomm and Amazon Web Services as its customer for foundry services.The world’s largest chip maker by revenue also revealed that it was planning to develop a 1-nanometer (nm) process by 2025.Intel’s plan is aggressive and it is clear that the company intend

Coasia Nexell said on Monday that it has received 3.9 billion won in investment from South Korean institutional investors.These include Cape Investment & Securities and other funds.A Coasia Nexell spokesperson said the company plans to spend the fund to meet rising demand for SoC design and strength

Fab equipment maker ASML plans to manufacture 60 units of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) systems in 2023, the chief of the Netherlands-based firm said.During the conference call for the second quarter, ASML CEO Peter Wennink said the company plans to manufacture around 40 units this year.This will be exp

Nextchip said on Monday that it has started development of advanced driver assistance system SoC Apache 6.Prototype of the chip will be released in the second half of 2022, the company said.Apache 6 is the successor to Apache 5, which has neural processing unit (NPU) applied.The new chip will have s

Cirrus Logic’s deal to buy Lion Semiconductor for US$335 million is talk of the town in South Korea’s semiconductor industry.Last week, Cirrus Logic announced that it was acquiring the California-based startup that specializes in power management ICs for wired and wireless charging as well as DC-DC

Samsung Display and its parent company Samsung Electronics are reviewing potential use of an underused liquid crystal display (LCD) plant in South Korea, which could possibly result in the plant being converted to a semiconductor plant, TheElec has learned.The plant at Cheonan, owned by Samsung Disp

Apple’s sales from its own chips increased 54% year-on-year in the first quarter, according to Strategy Analytics.Cupertino recorded US$2 billion in sales from its A series of application processor on its iPhones and M series of AP from its Mac PCs, the analyst firm said.Apple introduced the M serie

Nexperia, a Dutch chip firm owned by China’s Wingtech, said on Monday that it will acquire UK chip foundry Newport Wafer Fab.CNBC said in its report that the deal is worth 63 million pounds.Nexperia will own a 100% stake in Newport’s fab in Wales.The UK foundry’s fab was founded in 1982 and has a pr

Samsung’s earnings for the second quarter beat market expectations thanks to stronger than expected performance from its memory business.A one-time profit in its display business is also thought to have contributed the strong earnings.The company said on Wednesday that it recorded 63 trillion won in

Packaging firm Polaris Works said on Tuesday that it will begin supplying its automotive image sensor package called NeoPAC Encap to image sensor company Pixelplus this month.The package is for 5.6 micrometer pixel size VGA (688x528) automobile rear cameras. It will first be supplied to a Chinese ca

Samsung has put in requests to its CMOS image sensors testers to expand their capacity, TheElec has learned.The South Korean tech giant is guaranteeing orders for its testing partners as it is expecting high demand for CMOS image sensors in the second half of the year, people familiar with the matte

SK Hynix is preparing to end its business relationship with its design house partner ADTechnology, TheElec has learned.The South Korean memory giant had used the design house to have TSMC make its NAND flash controllers.But as ADTechnology recently ended its value chain aggregator (VCA) contract wit

SiFive announced two new RISC-V cores called P550 and P270. P550 will be used for the first time in Intel’s 7-nanometer (nm) CPU codenamed Horse Creek, which will launch sometime between 2022 and 2023.In March, Intel had said its 7nm CPU Meteor Lake will enter tape-in stage in the second quarter of

Fabless company Eyenix said on Thursday that it will be supplying its internet protocol (IP) camera SoC EN675 series for CCTVs to Seyeon Tech, Cellinx Systems, and Webgate.EN675 SoC will be used in two IP security cameras that Seyeon Tech will launch at the end of June, a Eyenix spokesperson said.Th

OLED panels will be used in 39.8% of smartphones this year and 45% in 2022, according to market research firm TrendForce.This is thanks to wider adoption of the panels by major smartphone brands such as Apple and Samsung, the firm said.But OLED display driver IC supply is currently unable to meet de

A total of 19 new fabs will start construction by the end of 2021, according to SEMI.An additional 10 more fabs are expected to start construction next year, the organization said.These fabs, when completed, in total will add production capacity equal to 2.6 million 200mm wafers per month, SEMI said