The US and China's trade row is continuing. Five years have passed since the inauguration of the Trump Administration that started the row but the two superpowers' economic competition isn't relenting even in the Biden era.The US-China trade row will undoubtedly affect South Korea's semiconductor bu

South Korean chip design company Coasia, a partner to Samsung Foundry, has supplied a sample of SoC to a cigarette company that plans to apply it to its e-cigarette, the company said on Tuesday.Once the sample is approved by the customer, the SoC will go into mass production, a senior executive of t

Worldwide semiconductor revenue hit its quarterly record during the third quarter of 2021, according to US’ Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).Revenue during the quarter was US$144.8 billion, the organization said, an increase of 27.6% year-on-year and 7.4% quarter-to-quarter.SIA analyzed the

Image sensor designer Pixelplus said on Tuesday that it plans to develop a sensor for water quality measurement with Thewavetalk.Thewavetalk develops water quality measurement devices under its Watertalk brand.The company plans to apply Pixelplus’ image sensor technology to its products. Water quali

SK Hynix said on Friday that it will be acquiring foundry company Key Foundry for 575.8 billion won.The purchase will double its 8-inch foundry production capacity, the South Korean memory maker said.It will acquire 100% of the shares of Key Foundry from their parent company Magnus Semiconductor thr

The combined revenue of the world’s top ten foundry companies is expected to exceed US$100 billion this year, according to analyst firm TrendForce.In 2022, their combined revenue will grow by 13.3% to reach US$117.69 billion, the firm said.The foundry industry is seeing high growth thanks to the inc

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it has recorded 73.98 trillion won in revenue and 15.82 trillion won in operating profit during the third quarter this year.Its operating margin rate was 21.4% during the quarter.Revenue was its best for a quarter ever while operating profit was its second-h

A Samsung president who heads the company’s memory business says collaboration between the material, component and fab equipment sectors is required for innovation in microchip fabrication.Samsung president Lee Jung-bae, who is also the chairman of Korea Semiconductor Industry Association, was speak

SK Hynix said on Tuesday that it recorded 11.8 trillion won in sales and 4.17 trillion won in operating profit during the third quarter this year.It is an increase of 45% and 220%, respectively, from the third quarter of 2020.The sales figure is SK Hynix’s best quarterly performance to date.The last

AI machine vision firm Twim is aiming to secure 200 billion won in sales in five years, its CEO told TheElec.Twim CEO Jeong Han-seop said the company started by offering rule-based inspection kits but has now expanded to deep learning-based AI inspection equipment, which allowed it to secure revenue

Overlay measurement kit maker Auros Technology said on Monday that it has developed a new package wafer warpage inspection kit that it has supplied a South Korean chip company.The new kit is called PWWIS-300 and can inspect 12-inch wafers for warpages.Wafers can warp during fabrication which can cau

Fabless chip company Solidvue will launch lidars using for use in mobile and autonomous vehicles in 2023 its CMOS lidar sensor IC technologies, the company CEO said.The firm was the only one in South Korea that can develop a CMOS lidar sensor IC, Solidvue CEO Jaehyuk Choi said.It will use its own te

The prices of epitaxial wafers that are used in logic chip production are expected to continue their current increase due to high demand.There are polished wafers and epitaxial wafers. Polished wafers are made out of polycrystalline silicon and are used mostly in memory chip production.Epitaxial waf

China’s Wise Road Capital will have to pay Magnachip a penalty fee if it fails to follow its plan to buy the chip company, TheElec has learned.The Chinese firm had agreed to pay around 80 billion won in penalty to the South Korean chipmaker in their acquisition contract if its plan to buy them doesn

Mi Equipment Korea said on Friday that it will be supplying its latest z-force laser assisted bonder (ZLAB) __ the Ai Series __ to a global chip assembly and testing company.A die cut out from the wafer is placed on a board with the copper pillar bump facing it. Then, infrared reflow equipment is us

SK Hynix said on Wednesday that it has developed HBM3 DRAM.HBM, or high bandwidth memory, connects multiple DRAM chips vertically to offer higher data processing compared to conventional DRAM chips.It is used in data centers and supercomputers.HBM3 is the fourth generation of the technology, after H

The mobile inertial measurement unit (IMU) market is expected to be worth US$838 million in 2026, according to Yole Development.IMU uses the accelerometer, gyroscope or magnetometer within the device to report the angular rate and direction of a moving object,It is used in smartphones and tablets to

Solidvue will lead a government-backed project worth 3.3 billion won to develop a CMOS lidar sensor and AI SoC for application to a fixed lidar.The company was founded in 2020 is comprised of professors from Sungkyungkwan University and UNIST that focuses on lidar sensors.Solidvue will collaborate w

Motion control firm Movensys has acquired Photomechanics which has technology related to anti-vibration control technology.Movensys offers a pure software motion control solution to control equipment in factories. It changed its name from Soft Motions & Robotics early this year.Its main product is W

Semiconductor startup Qualitas Semiconductor is eyeing the advanced semiconductor market such as those used for data center with its high-speed interconnect IPs, CEO Duho Kim told TheElec in an interview.Kim said the interconnect IP business requires knowledge of circuit design for both analog and d