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

South Korean cover glass company JNTC will be supplying cover glass for the display on a new electric vehicle by Mercedes-Benz that will launch in the second half of the year, TheElec has learned.The firm will be the exclusive supplier of the cover glasses used for the user experience hyperscreen (M

Analog Devices said on Tuesday launched reference design for a 16-channel mixed-signal front-end (MxFE) digitizer.The digitizers are for aerospace and defense applications such as phased array radars and ground-based satellite communications.They include four AD9081 or four AD9082 software-defined d

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’s upcoming foldable smartphone Galaxy Z Fold 3 will have a battery capacity of 4,380mAh, TheElec has learned.This is 3% smaller than Galaxy Z Fold2’s 4,500mAh, which launched last year, but same as the first Galaxy Fold of 2019.Galaxy Z Fold 3 will have the same dual battery system as its pr

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

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

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

Posco has received a direct cathode supply request from General Motors, The Elec learned on Thursday.The South Korean chemical company must build a cathode factory in US under the condition of the deal.Posco immediately went into internal review over the request. Company chairman Choi Jeong-woo and

South Korean chip giant SK Hynix on Wednesday has named a new co-CEO.SK Telecom vice chairman Park Jung-ho was newly named co-CEO by the board.Park will be in charge of building the corporate culture and drawing up long-term strategy to increase SK Hynix’ global competence, the company said.Current

Mobase Electronics said on Tuesday that it has won an order worth 90.5 billion won to supply battery components to Samsung SDI.The company will supply its printed board assembly (PBA) to the Korean battery maker up to December 2027.PBA is a battery module. Mobase’s supply will be used for batteries

Coasia said on Monday at it shareholders’ meeting that it strengthen its camera module business this year.It will also focus on expanding its system semiconductor business, which it started in 2020, the company said.Coasia will take part in the management of Coasia Optics, formerly called Diostech,

System semiconductor startup Qualitas said on Monday that it will develop an 112Gb/s Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) IP aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) and data center applications.Companies such as Cadence, Synopsys, Rambus, Marvell, Credo and Alphawave are competing fiercely in SerDes IP. Q

The top ten fabless chip design companies last year saw their sales grow 26.4% year-on-year, according to market research firm TrendForce.The pandemic, which “seemed at first poised to devastate” the chip design industry, led to spike in notebook computers and networking products, the firm said.Eigh