Key Foundry said on Tuesday that it will offer its third-generation 0.18 micrometer Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) process to customers.BCD process combines bipolar process that controls analog signals, CMOS to control digital signals and DMOS for high power processing, into one chip.It is mainly used to p

SK Hynix has agreed with its labor union to give 10% of its operating income as bonuses to employees going forward.The company also agreed to allow employees to decide on their stock ownership scheme, the company said on Tuesday.Previously, SK Hynix have given bonuses based on what it calls economic

Auros Technology said on Monday that it was close to winning a new order from China within the month.A company spokesperson said results remained to be seen but the situation has been positive up to now.If Auros win the contract, it will be supplying its DRAM production equipment.Company CEO Lee Jun

SK Hynix has vowed to provide employees with stock ownership plan and improvement in its profit sharing plan on Thursday amid backlash by employees from low bonuses.The company has reached an agreement with labor union. SK Hynix offered three proposition and the union agreed. The three were: to use

SK Hynix said on Thursday that it plans to install more water scrubbers in the cooling systems at its chip factories.Water scrubbers are used to block gas and chemicals formed during chip production from being released to the atmosphere. Catalysts and water are used during this process. SK Hynix sai

SK Hynix said on Wednesday that the company’s ultimate aim for its semiconductor fabs are to make them fully autonomous.Company manager Jeong Yu-in said its 300mm wafer fab were currently Level 3 to 4 in autonomy. SK Hynix will need to collaborate with the equipment industry and academia to get clos

A SK Hynix executive said on Wednesday that low-power semiconductors could help ease environmental problems.Company executive vice president Cha Seon Yong said the company’s shift from DDR4 to DDR5 saved power worth a year of power consumption from those consumed for year by all the street lamps in

SK Hynix will apply peri under cell (PUC) technology to its next-generation phase-change RAM (PRAM), the company said on Wednesday.PRAM combines the advantages of DRAM and NAND flash. Intel retained its Optane business, which is based on PRAM technology, when it sold its NAND unit to SK Hynix. PRAM

SK Telecom said Wednesday that it has recorded 18.62 trillion won in sales and 1.35 trillion won in operating income for the full-year of 2020.The figures are an on-year increase of 5% and 21.8%, respectively. In the fourth quarter, SK Telecom posted 331.1 billion won in operating income, a rise of

Employees of SK Hynix dispatched to China had their quarantine period extended from two weeks to three, TheElec has learned.This is due to the cities of Wuhan and Chongqing, where the company has factories, extending the quarantine period to prevent the spread of COVID-19.A SK Hynix spokesperson sai

SK Hynix said Monday that it has completed the construction of its M16 fab, which will produce next-generation DRAM using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process.The fab will begin producing Gen 4 10-nm (1a) DRAM in the second half of 2021, the company said.Construction for the factory began in November 2

SK Hynix will invest in facilities conservatively this year, the company’s CFO said at its conference call for the fourth quarter.CFO Jongwon Noh said the company will invest carefully, considering the persistent uncertainties from the COVID-19 pandemic and unfavorable exchange rate.Capital expendit

SK Hynix posted higher than expected operating income for 2020 despite price drops in memory semiconductors.The company said Friday it has posted 31.9 trillion won in sales and 5.01 trillion won in operating income for the full year of 2020.The figures are a rise of 18% and 84%, respectively, from t

SK Hynix has requested South Korean semiconductor equipment makers TES and KCTech conduct research into developing semiconductor cleaning equipment, TheElec has learned. A person familiar with the matter said SK Hynix has been looking for a supplier to replace Mujin Electronics, which has previously

Yes Power Technix said on Thursday that it has received 26.8 billion won in funding from SK Holdings, the holding company of SK Group.SK Group will gain a 33.6% take in Yes Power Technix through the deal.Yes Power Technix, an affiliate of YEST, is the only company in South Korea that can design and

The South Korean government and local companies together will spend 300 billion won for ten years to foster talents in system semiconductors, South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Thursday.They will also create system semiconductor design majors in local universities.By 2022,

Semiconductor package and test company Winpac begin uMCP packaging for SK Hynix, TheElec has said on Tuesday.uMCP combines mobile DRAM (LPDDR) and NAND Flash (in this case Universal Flash Storage) into one product. It has faster than eMCP and consumes less power. The chip is used in smart devices su

SPIE Advanced Lithography Digital Forum will be held online next month from February 22 to 26.SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, will host the event that will showcase extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that is growing ever more important in semiconductor product

Auros Technology said on Friday that it was expecting new sales from Chinese semiconductor companies starting this year.It is also planning to form a research center at Silicon Valley in the US to recruit talents, the company said.Auros manufacturers semiconductor overlay measurement equipment. It l

South Korean firms Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix has ranked second and third place, respectively, in worldwide semiconductor sales in 2020, according market research firm Gartner.Samsung marked US$56.197 billion in semiconductor sales, a rise of 7.7% from 2019. The company had a market share of 1