South Korean chipmakers Samsung and SK Hynix are expected to showcase their latest technologies at ISSCC 2023 being held in San Francisco in February of next year.ISSCC, or the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, is called the semiconductor design Olympics by South Korean the chip industr

Fab equipment maker Nextin expects its revenue from China to double this year compared to 2021, its CEO told TheElec.China was accounting for around 70% of the company’s revenue this year, Nextin CEO Tae Hoon Park said in an interview. The company is seeing its revenue from China double this year, P

Qualcomm will continue using multiple foundries to manufacture its chips, one of its executives said on Tuesday.The US chip giant was continuing to collaborate with Samsung Foundry and will use multiple foundries, from the South Korean company, TSMC to GlobalFoundries, depending on their technologic

ASML’s highly anticipated high-NA EUV equipment will begin shipping in 2024 and cost between 300 to 350 million euros per unit, CEO Peter Wennink said in a conference in Seoul on Tuesday.High-numerical aperture (NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) is an upgraded version of the Dutch company’s prior EUV eq

The global chip market is expected to recover in the second quarter of next year, analysts firm IC Insights said in its forecast.The firm said the market will contract by 9% during the third quarter of this year and will further contract by 8% and then by 3% again in the first quarter of 2023.After

SK Hynix was developing a new CMOS image sensor (CIS) that uses neural network technology, TheElec has learned.The South Korean memory giant is planning to embed an AI accelerator into the CIS, sources said.The accelerator itself is based on SRAM combined with a microprocessor __ also called in-memo

Samsung will complete the construction of its new P3 foundry fab next year, TheElec has learned.The tech giant originally planned to finish construction within the year.Samsung only started construction of the cleanroom of the fab late last month, sources said.This reflects the delay that began when

Samsung System LSI, Samsung’s logic chip designing business unit, has been registered as a secondary vendor of automotive CMOS image sensor (CIS) for Hyundai Motor’s latest car model, TheElec has learned.The primary vendor for the car model, which launched during the first half of the year, is Omniv

Samsung said on Monday that it has begun production of 1Tb Gen 8 V-NAND.The chip has 236 layers, more than those of Micron’s with 232 layers that launched early this year.Samsung used its double stack method as it did for Gen 7 V-NAND, sources said.The tech giant said its 1Tb TLC(triple level cell)

Chip IP firm Qualitas Semiconductor was expecting its revenue to more than double this year, its CEO Duho Kim said.The company, founded in 2017, specializes in interconnect IPs and had developed its own SerDes IPs.SerDes technology serializes parallel data to transfer them through a single channel,

Samsung will use mostly Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 application processors (AP) on its upcoming Galaxy S23 series smartphones, TheElec has learned.Sources said the tech giant’s own Exynos platform will likely power mid-tier smartphones instead of flagships.Samsung had attempted to expand the marke

Samsung was developing a new chip packaging technology with its key partners for automotive chips, TheElec has learned.The tech giant was developing an aluminum oxide (Al2O3) coating bonding wire technology with beefed-up reliability and insulation compared to previous bonding wires, sources said.Bo

Executives of Samsung’s chip division have been more collaborative and communicative with their counterparts at partner and supplier companies since the tech giant named Kyung Kye-hyun as the division president, TheElec has learned.Multiple sources have said executives of Samsung Device Solution (DS

Semiconductor and display material company JI Tech will list on the Korean bourse next month.It going public is expected to be a big payday for venture capital UTC Investment.JI Tech, which will list on KOSDAQ on November 4, is valued at 131.1 billion won.The company specializes in precursors used t

Samsung said on Thursday that its board of directors appointed vice chairman Jay Y. Lee as its executive chairman.The tech giant said the decision was made to strengthen accountability and stabilize management amid the worsening global business environment.Lee was designated legally the leader of Sa

Samsung’s profitability dropped substantially during the third quarter from the downturn in the memory market.However, its foundry business, or contract chip production, posted its highest quarterly revenue ever from the improved yield rate of advanced nodes.The tech giant said it reported 76.78 tri

Taiwanese microcontroller unit (MCU) firm Nuvoton is planning to expand its presence in South Korea, the company’s chairman said on Wednesday.Chairman Yuan-Mao Su told a press conference in Seoul that the company is planning to aggressively expand in the market by meeting changing demand of South Ko

SK Hynix recorded a significant drop in its operating income for the third quarter stemming from the low memory demand caused by the global economic downturn.The memory chipmaker said it recorded 11 trillion won in sales and 1.65 trillion won in operating income during the third quarter, a drop of 7

SK Hynix said on Tuesday that it has developed a DDR5 DRAM with a speed of 6400Mbps.Samples of the DRAM in 32GB UDIMM and SODIMM form factors were given to customers, the South Korean chipmaker said.Both modules are used in PCs but SODIMM is an ultra-small one.SK Hynix said it used its recently deve

Fab equipment component maker BC&C is developing new products its main focus rings for new revenue.The company is developing ceramic test sockets and tantalum sputtering targets with the goal to launch prototypes sometime between 2023 and 2024, the company said.Test sockets are used to test packaged