Thermal imaging sensor will play a larger role in advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) in future autonomous cars, according to an executive at camera module maker Mcnex.Jung Young-hyun, director of auto-component product development at Mcnex, said while thermal imaging sensor and thermal infrare

DB HiTek said on Monday that it plans to expand its production capacity within the year to meet rising demand from customers due to the current global ship shortage.The chip maker will add 9,000 wafers per month in production capacity within 2021.A company spokesperson said its two fabs in Bucheon a

Raontec is planning to list on KOSDAQ in June.The firm filed a renewed security report to authorities, it said on Friday.Raontec had earlier turned in a security report but authorities last month told it to turn in against with revisions.The company updated to the report to include its first quarter

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in on Thursday promised to provide support and foster the local semiconductor industry.Moon spoke at an event in Samsung’s Pyeontaek chip plant to promote the local chip industry.On the same day, the government announced that it would offer 40% to 50% tax credits for

TSMC said on Thursday that the recent power outage in Taiwan has not affected its chip production.According to the local Central News Agency, equipment malfunction at an electrical substation in Kaohsiung City has caused electricity produced at a nearby thermal power plant to be cutoff, at around 2p

System semiconductor company Coasia has recorded 112.8 billion won in sales and 2.7 billion won in operating income in the first quarter.Sales increased 11% from a year prior. The company turned a profit compared to the same time period in 2020.Coasia said high sales from its IT component business,

ASML will start supplying pellicles used in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) systems with transmittance of over 90% this year.ASML Korea marketing manager MyoungKuy Lee said at an SMC Korea seminar that the company will begin production of pellicles with over 90.6% transmittance rate.The pellicles have sec

Samsung Electronics is facing production problems for its Galaxy A series of smartphones due to the current global chip shortage, TheElec has learned.A person familiar with the matter said there has been no official sales date set for most regions in the world for Galaxy A52, A52 5G and A72, which w

Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it has developed a new DRAM based on the Compute Express Link (CXL) interface.The DDR5 module has been verified on Intel’s platform. Samsung said it will collaborate on the launch of the chip with other data center and cloud companies.CXL interface allows CPU

LB Lusem will add 10 million units per month in its display driver IC (DDI) backend processing capacity, the company CEO Hyunchang Shin said on Monday.The company currently has a capacity of 80 million units per month, which was running at full capacity due to high demand, Shin said.The firm plans t

Power module firm Vicor Korea will focus its sales on the local automobile industry this year, country manager Kichun Jung said, with a special focus on electric cars.The Korean unit of Vicor recently formed an automotive division. It also hired YS Jun, a veteran in the automotive chip industry with

Power gallium nitride (GaN) chip market is expected to grow at a high rate in the next five years from consumer charging devices, according to market research firm Yole Development.The power GaN market was worth US$46 million in 2020, but this will grow 70% on average per year until 2026, when the m

Samsung said on Thursday that it has developed a new chip packaging technology.Called Interposer-Cube4, or I-Cube4, it places four high bandwidth memory dies and one logic dies in one packageIt is the latest version in Samsung’s I-Cube technology, which horizontally places logic dies such as CPU and

South Korean fabless firm Telechips have recently finished development of its vehicle microcontroller unit (MCU), TheElec has learned.The firm is currently promoting an engineering sample version to customers, people familiar with the matter said.It is Telechips’ first MCU. The company previously fo

Chip and display equipment maker STI said on Thursday that it will be supplying its central chemical supply system (CCSS) to chip giant Micron.The deal is worth S$47.9 million, or around 40 billion won. The CCSS will be used in Micron’s PH2 of Singapore Fab 1.A STI spokesperson said the worldwide ch

Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$123.1 billion in the first quarter of 2021, according to Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) of the US.This was an increase of 17.8% from the first quarter of 2020 and an increase of 3.6% over the previous quarter, SIA said.The figure also beats SIA’

LB Semicon is expected to test image sensors and application processor of customer Samsung Electronics in scale starting in May, TheElec has learned.The chip back-end processing firm begin testing the initial stock of chips in March.New testing facility made to handle Samsung’s order will operate at

South Korea fabless chip firm Zinitix said on Monday that it has supplied its wearable touch IC to FitBit.The chips are being used in the latest tracker model launched by FitBit, the Korean firm said.Touch controller IC accounts for around 90% of Zinitix’s sales. Samsung is its customer, which uses

Fixed price of DRAM surged in April from a month ago, according to DRAMeXchange.The price of PC DRAM (DDR4 8Gb) at the end of the April was US$3.8, an increase of 26.67% from the previous month.It is the highest rate of increase since the January of 2017, when the price of DRAM increased by 35.8% fr

Wireless chip supplier RFHIC has chosen as a vendor for a national project to develop gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor, the company said on Monday.The project is overseen by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and Ministry of National Defense.It aims to develop an X-band GaN semiconductor