Semiconductor wafer producer SK Siltron has received the Gold Zero Waste to Landfill Validation (ZWTL) certification from Underwriters Laboratories.Gold is given to companies with recycling rate between 95 to 99%.SK Siltron received the certification based on its 2020 data from its third factory at

SK Hynix’s acquisition of Intel’s NAND business unit has been approved by South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday.The approval follows that of those made in the US and Europe earlier. South Korea’s FTC said it approved the deal quickly as it considered there to be little anti-competiti

DB HiTek vice chairman and CEO Choi Chang-sik saw his salary last year triple from a year prior due to high bonus payments from strong performances of the company.Choi received a total of 3.418 billion won in remuneration last year, the company said. He received 782 billion won in salary and 2.636 b

Germany embedded and edge computing firm Congatec will form a South Korean subsidiary, the company said on Wednesday.South Korea country manager Yoonsun Kim said the company will provide strong design support for local customers.It will also optimize supply chain customers need for their product pro

Vacuum robot firm Raontec said on Wednesday that it expects to supply its products to overseas customers starting in the second half of this year or next year.Product demos to overseas customers were yielding results, Raontech CEO Kim Won-geyung said, at the company’s press conference for its listin

The world’s top 15 semiconductor companies saw their combined sales grow 21% in the first quarter of 2021, according to market research firm IC Insights.Fourteen out of the 15 firms all recorded at least US$3 billion in sales.Intel topped the list with US$18.67 billion, followed by Samsung’s US$17.0

Monthly capacity of 200mm, or 8-inch, fabs will increase 17% from 2020 to 2024 to reach 6.6 million, according to SEMI.This will be an increase of 950,000 wafers per month in capacity in just five years.A total of 22 new 200mm fabs that manufacture analog, power, MOSFET and microcontroller unit semi

Silicon Works was the sole fabless in South Korea to record high growth in the first quarter of 2021.TheElec looked at the first quarter earnings of the top 20 fabless companies (including design houses and chipless firms) in the country.Silicon Works recorded 405.6 billion won in sales, a jump of 9

Helios Private Equity will buy a majority stake in chip test socket firm ISC for 148.5 billion won.ISC said Monday that it will sell 31.75% stake (5.16 million shares) to the private equity.The stakes are owned by three people including single largest shareholder chairman Chung Young-bae.The shares

SK Hynix’s acquisition of Intel’s NAND unit has been approved by the European Commission.The Korean chip giant announced in October that it was buying the NAND unit of the US chip giant for US$9 billion.The deal has been under review by antitrust authorities of eight major countries since then.The U

Chip packaging firm LB Lusem will expand its power chip operation to reduce reliance on display driver IC, the company CEO said on Monday.Power chip accounted for 0.7% of its sales in 2019 but the company will expand this to 10% by 2023, LB Lusem CEO Hyunchang Shin said at a press conference ahead o

The top five fab equipment companies all recorded double digit growth in the first quarter of 2021.Applied Materials recorded sales of US$5.582 billion for its fiscal first quarter (February to April), an increase of 41% year-on-year.Net income for the quarter was US$1.33 billion, an increase of 76%

Nextchip will supplying its advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) system-on-a-chip (SoC) to a Japanese tier-1 supplier.The company was preparing to manufacture the Apache 4 for supply, Nextchip chief marketing officer (CMO) Yoo Young-jun told TheElec.It marks the first time that the company is su

Pixelplus is expected to supply more of its surround view monitor (SVM) total solution for automobiles going forward, a company executive said.The company has secured the technologies for the system-on-a-chip (SoC), image signal processor (ISP), image sensor and transmission IC that are required for

The global memory chip market is expected to be worth US$155.2 billion this year, according to market research firm IC Insights.This will grow by 16% to be worth US$180.4 billion in 2022, the firm said.If it is met, the 2022 figure will exceed the previous record of US$163.3 billion in 2018.IC Insig

Arm said on Thursday that South Korean design house SemiFive has joined the Arm Ecosytem.SemiFive will now have access to Arm’s Cortex-A, Cortex-R, Cortex-M CPUm Mali GPU, Ethos NPU and other architecture Ips.The Korean firm plans to use Arm’s IP to deisgn custom system-on-a-chip and application-spe

Qualcomm on Wednesday unveiled its latest mobile application processor, the Snapdragon 778.The AP is aimed at mid- to high-tier smartphones. It will power phones by Honor, Oppo, Realme, Xiaomi and Motorola launching in the second quarter.Snapdragon 778 was made with 6-nanometer FinFET process by TSM

Magnachip said on Thursday that it will be spending 500 billion won in research and development as well as building facilities in South Korea for the next five years.The chip maker claimed the spending will produce 2 trillion won worth of economic effect locally.Out of the total, Magnachip will spen

Dongwoon Anatech was developing 3D gesture controller technology with a supplier, a company executive told TheElec.The controller is aimed the automobile market, company CTO Lee Jae-shik said.The technology will be sued by the driver to use hand gestures to control the automobile’s navigation, infot

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday unveiled new power management ICs that can be integrated with its DDR5 dual in-line memory module.The chips are integrated into the module rather than being placed on the mother board.This will increase compatibility and signal integrity and thereby provide more reliab