Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong has visited the conglomerate’s key semiconductor site and stressed the risk ahead for the business, Samsung said on Friday.Lee visited the semiconductor research lab at its Hwaseong plant and met with senior executives there.The vice chairman and the ex

Samsung Electronics has launched a cloud-based design platform for use by its fabless customers, the company said on Thursday.Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE) Cloud Design Platform (CDP), developed in collaboration with Rescale, will provide a virtual environment to design chips in the clou

Samsung’s de facto leader has held relay meetings with key executives of its smartphone and semiconductor operations, Samsung Electronics said on Monday.Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong met with Kim Ki-nam, CEO and vice chairman of Samsung Device Solutions (DS), Jin Gyo-young, presiden

Global fab equipment spending will grow 24% to reach US$67.7 billion in 2021, research firm SEMI said.US$30 billion will be spent on memory fab equipment with US$29 billion invested in logic and foundry fab equipment, the firm said.Spending into 3D NAND flash equipment will increase 30% this year fr

The emerging memories market will grow to be worth US$36 billion by the year 2030, challenging the current dominance of DRAM and NAND flash memories, two prestigious research firm said Tuesday.Objective Analysis and Coughlin Associates published their joint report, dubbed Emerging Memories Find Thei

A key supplier of semiconductor equipment to Samsung Electronics has seen its first quarter earnings recover.It signals that the world’s largest memory chip maker is resuming investment into semiconductors after it decreased it due to the global downturn of the memory market. The move is expected to

Samsung Electronics has begun construction of a new foundry line at its plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, the company announced Thursday.The line will produce chips using extreme ultraviolet (EUV)-based 5-nanometer (nm) process, the company said, and will began operations in the second half of 2021.

MagnaChip plans to focus on display and power solutions now that it has signed off to sell its foundry business and Fab 4 manufacturing facility located in North Chungcheong Province in a deal valued at about $435 million.On Mar. 31, MagnaChip said it inked the contract with a consortium led by priv

Competition in the global handset display driver IC (DDI) for OLED panels, which had more or less been dominated by Samsung Electronics’ System LSI Division, is intensifying as more Chinese and Taiwanese companies are entering the race.In 2019, Samsung had more than a 60% share of the world’s OLED D

SemiFive is pursuing Series A investment after securing a KRW 9.1 billion seed-level investment in 2019, according to industry sources on Feb. 17.With aim to close the round by early May at the latest, the firm is approaching key institutional investors based on a valuation at around KRW 100 billion

South Korea-based semiconductor equipment firm Tes has passed the pilot test to supply GPE equipment to Samsung Electronics’ foundry lines, according to industry sources on Jan. 16.This indicates a shift from memory chips to the non-memory chip sector for the firm, they said.“Our goal is to supply t

South Korean display solution firm AnaPass is expected to provide more of its products for Samsung’s small and mid-sized OLED panels, according to industry sources on Jan 2.Samsung Display has already watched AnaPass pass the test with Sony’s Experia 1 and Meizu’s Meizu 15 Plus over the past two yea

Hanatec, one of Samsung Electronics’ design houses for its foundry business, will be merging with domestic rival Silicon Harmony, with the move taking effect as of Nov. 1 this year.Hanatec’s workforce is composed of 55 employees, while Silicon Harmony has 23. Both have annual sales of around 7 billi

Samsung Electronics’ foundry division appears to be preparing to produce RISC-V-based core chips in a joint effort with SemiFive, marking the first time for the department to apply a non-ARM core IP to its procedures.On Oct. 11, SemiFive head Cho Myung-hyun said that the firm is developing chip desi

“As more and more fabless companies are looking to design SoC by using RISC-V core, we believe our mission is to help these firms create a healthy chip designing eco-system,” said Cho Myung-hyun, founder and CEO of SemiFive.SemiFive is an affiliate of US-based semiconductor startup SiFive. The found

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong is visiting Samsung’s major manufacturing facilities to check on the situation in the aftermath of the Japanese government’s latest move to cut South Korea from its whitelist.The decision, coming amid an ongoing trade row between the two countries, is m

Relations between Kosdaq-listed ASIC design firm ADT and Taiwan’s top foundry company TSMC have reportedly soured, with the latter turning towards other South Korean suppliers, according to industry sources on July 30.One such firm is Asicland, a local ASIC design house, which was recently chosen as

Applied Materials, the world’s largest semiconductor equipment maker unveiled Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) equipment specialized for new memory production. The company said it is confident of selling $100 million worth this year, Applied Materials Korea said on July 17.“The combined sales target

Samsung Electronics’ network business has given the green light to mass produce the radio frequency (RF) chips fitted into 5G base stations shipped out to clients all over the world, according to industry sources on June 24.But the chips won’t be produced by Samsung’s foundry unit. Instead, Taiwanes

Samsung Electronics will apply Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology for the first time for DRAM mass production in the memory chip sector to raise efficiency and cut costs, sources close to the matter told The Elec.Samsung – the world’s largest memory chipmaker – is scheduled to begin ma