DB HiTek is planning to expand its image sensor foundry business.The company said on Friday that it has developed global shutter and single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) processes based on its 110-nanometer (nm) platform.The South Korean foundry will begin multi-wafer project program for fabless cus

GlobalFoundries Korea has named former Teradyne Korea president Kim Jong-ha as its new country manager.Kim will oversee GlobalFoundries’ operations, sales and marketing in South Korea.He previously worked at Qualcomm and Intel’s South Korean subsidiaries as well as Samsung’s chip business.Kim has in

SK Hynix said on Thursday that it has began to manufacture its new solid-state drive (SSD) called PE8110 E1.S.The SSD is aimed at servers and the company will begin supplying them to customers in May.PE8110 E1.S is based on 128-layer NAND. SK Hynix said the new SSD has improved writing and reading s

TSMC said on Wednesday that it suffered a power outage at its P14 plant which was recovered on the same day, according to Reuters.Some of the machines still worked during the outage thanks to backup systems, the Taiwanese chip giant said.The company will investigate the damages caused by the outage.

SK Hynix has formed a new group that will focus on development of fab equipment technologies, TheElec has learned.The South Korean memory maker had hired an outside expert and named them an executive vice president to lead the fab equipment development group.The group will be under direction supervi

The San Diego Supercomputer Center will use chips from Intel subsidiary Habana in its Voyager artificial intelligence (AI) system.Voyager will be powered by 336 Habana Gaudi processors built for AI workloads. Gaudi natively has ten 100Gb Ethernet ports of RoCE v2 to minimize throughput bottlenecks.T

Samsung Electronics is planning to sell around 400 units of fab equipment to UMC to be used in the latter’s factory in Taiwan, according Taiwan Economic Daily.The pair has recently signed a contract for UMC to manufacture Samsung’s image sensors.The equipment will be used in UMC’s P6 plant at Nanke.

The Korea Semiconductor Industry Association (KSIA) has asked the South Korean government to enact new laws that provide support for the industry.The association said in an open letter that the US was planning to offer up to 40% tax reduction for semiconductor equipment spending, while the European

Samsung Electronics said on Friday that it will encourage open source innovation with its own storage platform called Project Poseidon.Project Poseidon is the company’s disaggregated storage platform designed to meet the needs of hyperscale server manufacturers and the data center market.Earlier in

Robotic automation firm Raontec is planning to list on KOSDAQ in May. The company filed a security report for the listing to financial authorities on Friday.The company previously listed on KONEX in 2015. It is planning to list on the higher tier bourse through the special exemption rule for technol

South Korean fabless firm Pixelplus will begin selling its facial recognition image sensor in China this year, TheElec has learned.The company is attempting to diversify its revenue steram and reduce its reliance on biometric recognition solution for CCTVs and automobiles.Facial recognition systems

SK Hynix has settled its patent lawsuit with Netlist.The South Korean memory maker will pay royalties to the latter under their patent cross-licensing agreement, the company said.SK Hynix will be paying around US$40 million for use of Netlist’ patents.In 2016, Netlist filed a patent infringement law

ACM Research on Wednesday announced in South Korea that its 300mm Ultra Fn furnace dry processing equipment will support additional semiconductor manufacturing processes.The additions are: un-doped poly deposition, doped poly deposition, gate oxide deposition, high-temperature oxidation and high-tem

South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on Wednesday said it has chosen ten categories of semiconductors used in cars to develop.These are car storage, power management chips, driver video record system chips, and others.Though microcontroller unit, which is experiencing the worst short

Intel on Wednesday launched its third-generation Xeon Scalable processor ‘Ice Lake’ in South Korea.The new chip supports edge, hybrid cloud and high performance computing.Intel said Ice Lake has 46% increased performance for data center workload.Each processor can support up to 40 cores, which allow

A gas leak at SK Hynix’s chip plant in South Korea has injured three people.The South Korean memory giant said on Tuesday that hydrogen fluoride leaked during equipment inspection at its M16 plant in Icheon.One suffered burns on their arms and legs, while two inhaled the gas. They were rushed to the

Partron said on Monday that it will expand its 5G telecommunication module that uses Qualcomm’s solutions.The South Korean component maker currently uses Snapdragon X55, X62, X65 and 5G modem-RF systems for its 5G products.It is preparing to manufacture LGA/M.2 module, 5G customer premise equipment,

Tesna recorded an operating margin rate of 23.09% in 2020, the highest among semiconductor packaging and testing companies in South Korea.The top ten companies for packaging and testing (back-end process) combined recorded average operating margin rates of 5.66%.Tesna’s operating margin rate beat ot

SK Hynix is in talks to supply its memory chips for cars with German auto-component giant Bosch, TheElec has learned.SK Hynix has completed the development of the memory chip that meets specifications requested by Bosch, people familar with the matter said.DRAMs used in cars have increased reliabili

TSMC said on Thursday that it will invest US$100 billion in the next three years to expand its production capacity, according to Reuters.The Taiwanese chip giant also said it will work with its customers to overcome the current global chip shortage.Last year, Intel announced that it is planning to s