South Korean fab equipment firm Hanmi Semiconductor said on Monday that it has completed a new factory to manufacture dual-chuck saw used in chip packaging.The factory was built at an industrial park at Incheon and will manufacture Hanmi’s dual-chuck saws, called Micro Saw by the company.The new fac

Texas Instruments was the largest analog semiconductor company in terms of revenue last year, according to market research firm IC Insights.The US chip firm recorded US$10.9 billion in sales from its analog chip business. It was a 6% increase year-on-year and was 75% of its total sales of US$14.9 bi

Abov Semiconductor will be given 5.5 billion won in financial support for the next three years from the South Korean government to develop its wireless charging technology.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Friday that it has selected the company as one of the fabless chip firms it s

Smartphone camera module maker Biolog Device will acquire and invest in the display and semiconductor industries to become a large tech conglomerate, Company CEO Hwang Hoon said on Thursday.It will use its business network and all its resources to integrate new technologies and companies, the CEO sa

Hanmi Semiconductor on Wednesday said it has succeeded in the development of dual-chuck saw used in semiconductor packaging.The saw is called Micro Saw by the company and will be offered with 18-months free warranty, Hanmi said.Japanese companies dominate the semiconductor packaging saw sector with

South Korean chemical firm Miwon Commercial is likely to supply more krypton fluoride (KrF) photoresist polymer to Samsung as the latter upgrades its 3D NAND from Gen 6 to Gen 7, TheElec has learned.Samsung is preparing to start manufacturing its Gen 7 3D NAND, which has more layers than the previou

Hyundai Mobis, the component arm of Hyundai Motor Group, was in talks with South Korean fabless chip and design house companies to develop its own automobile semiconductor, TheElec has learned.The project is called ES Project internally. ES stands for Eui-sun, the first name of Hyundai Motor Group c

Nextchip said on Tuesday that it has received the ISO26262 Functional Safety Management (FSM) certificate from production certification firm Exida.Nextchip said it can now develop semiconductors that meet Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) requirements.The firm said it has been preparing for F

System semiconductor firm Telechips said on Tuesday that it is supplying its automobile system-on-a-chip (SoC) Dolphin Plus to Avtovaz, the Russian car brand under Renault Group.Dolphin Plus is used to power audio, video and navigation (AVN) system on cars.The SoC is applied to Avtovaz’ Lada Enjoy P

LG InnoTek has sold its 1,968 patents related to LED technology registered in the US to a Chinese company called Suzhou LEKIN Semiconductor on May 20, according to filings made to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).Suzhou, China-based LEKIN Semiconductor was founded in on March 2

Chip component and material firm Mecaro said on Monday that it was merging with its subsidiary KVTS.The new shares will be issued. The merger will be completed in August 1. KVTS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mecaro.KVTS makes special valves, RTP lamp housing and Hot N2 for semiconductors.It had su

System semiconductor design company Coasia said on Friday that it will sell its majority stake acoustic component subsidiary BSE.The company will sell its 68.75% stake to an unknown party for 31.8 billion won.Earlier in December, it had sold 31.25% stake for 14 billion won.Coasia said it was selling

Semiconductor wafer producer SK Siltron has received the Gold Zero Waste to Landfill Validation (ZWTL) certification from Underwriters Laboratories.Gold is given to companies with recycling rate between 95 to 99%.SK Siltron received the certification based on its 2020 data from its third factory at

Germany embedded and edge computing firm Congatec will form a South Korean subsidiary, the company said on Wednesday.South Korea country manager Yoonsun Kim said the company will provide strong design support for local customers.It will also optimize supply chain customers need for their product pro

Vacuum robot firm Raontec said on Wednesday that it expects to supply its products to overseas customers starting in the second half of this year or next year.Product demos to overseas customers were yielding results, Raontech CEO Kim Won-geyung said, at the company’s press conference for its listin

The world’s top 15 semiconductor companies saw their combined sales grow 21% in the first quarter of 2021, according to market research firm IC Insights.Fourteen out of the 15 firms all recorded at least US$3 billion in sales.Intel topped the list with US$18.67 billion, followed by Samsung’s US$17.0

Monthly capacity of 200mm, or 8-inch, fabs will increase 17% from 2020 to 2024 to reach 6.6 million, according to SEMI.This will be an increase of 950,000 wafers per month in capacity in just five years.A total of 22 new 200mm fabs that manufacture analog, power, MOSFET and microcontroller unit semi

Chip packaging firm LB Lusem will expand its power chip operation to reduce reliance on display driver IC, the company CEO said on Monday.Power chip accounted for 0.7% of its sales in 2019 but the company will expand this to 10% by 2023, LB Lusem CEO Hyunchang Shin said at a press conference ahead o

Overlay equipment maker Auros Technology on Thursday said it has recorded 22.64 billion won in sales and 8.45 billion won in operating income in the first quarter.Sales jumped 427% from a year prior and operating income skyrocketed 907% over the same time period.Net income in the quarter was 6.47 bi

South Korean equipment makers recorded mixed results in the first quarter of 2021.Fab equipment vendors posted high growth, while display equipment firms underperformed.Fab equipment makers benefited from aggressive spending by semiconductor companies.Semes, Samsung Electronics’ fab equipment subsid