Bosch on Monday opened its new 300mm wafer factory in Dresden, after spending 3 years in its construction.The factory will begin manufacturing chips in September.It is the German automotive chip giant’s first 30mm wafer fab. It was built in 72,000 meter-square of space and manufacture chips using th

Chip testing firm Itek will collaborate with chip packaging company Unichips to enter the Chinese market.Itek said on Tuesday that the pair will share market information and analysis of the Chinese market to enter the semiconductor testing sector there.Itek’s focus in on testing system semiconductor

AI chip firm Graphcore said on Monday that it will be supplying its intelligence processing unit (IPU)-point of delivery (POD) system to NHN for the latter’s data center being built at Gwangju.The IPU can handle around 9,000 independent parallel processing threats through 1,472 parallel processing c

Semiconductor packaging firm Hana Micron was in talks to buy semiconductor testing company APACT.Hana was seeking to acquire APACT to win a large, long-term order to handle semiconductor backend process work from South Korean memory giant SK Hynix, people familiar with the matter told TheElec.Those

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

Mando said on Friday that it will collaborate with Smart Radar System to develop an ultra high resolution 4D imaging radar for autonomous vehicles.A 4D imaging radar measures the distance, height, depth and speed of its surrounding.This is more accurate than previous radars that just read spatial da

Samsung System LSI, the logic chip unit of Samsung Electronics, has begun development of three timing controller (T-Con) for quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels being developed by Samsung Display, TheElec has learned.Samsung Display is planning to send its prototypes of QD-OLED TVs and a monitor to potenti

The Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA) has called for the South Korean government to expand tax incentives for hybrid cars.On Thursday, KAMA claimed hybrid cars had the same carbon emission rate as existing electric cars, but was more efficient when it comes to cost.This means hybrid

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

Flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) maker BH said on Wednesday that it will be spending 50 billion won to build new facilities to meet demand from lithium-ion batteries used in electric cars.The South Korean firm will expand its third factory, which manufactures FPCB for automobiles, in Vietnam un

EcoPro EM, the battery cathode making joint venture between Samsung SDI and EcoPro BM, may build its next cathode factory in Europe, TheElec has learned.The company was originally planning to build its third factory, CAM7-N, at Pohang, South Korea, but is now strongly considering Europe, people fami

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

South Korean memory packaging and testing companies saw their earnings drop in the first quarter of 2021 as SK Hynix continues to internalize more of its own packaging and testing.In contrast, packaging and testing companies that services logic chips saw their earnings improve in the same time perio

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

Silicon photonics market was worth US$87 million in 2020 but will grow to be worth US$1.1 billion by 2026, according to market research firm Yole Development.The market will grow on average 49% per year during that time, the firm said.Data center will account for the most in the global silicon photo

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

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

LG Energy Solution said on Tuesday that it will recall some of its energy storage system (ESS) batteries.The South Korean battery maker will voluntarily recall batteries made at its ESS dedicated production line between April 2017 to September 2018. The recall will cost the company around 400 billio

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