Semiconductor testing solution company TSE said on Wednesday that it is supplying die carrier socket for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) testing to a global memory manufacturer.HBM are mostly supplied in die form, instead of in a molding package. The last testing on the good was using a probe card on th

Analog Devices and Volvo Cars said on Monday that Volvo XC40 Recharge pure electric SUV will feature Analog’s ICs that support battery management system (BMS) and Automotive Audio Bus (A2B).The ICs will traveling distance per a single charge, the pair said.It can be applied to hybrid and pure electr

Samsung Display on Sunday said it has joined the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA).The membership will boost the company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) push, it said.RBA sets out and holds members accountable to RBA code of conduct based on a number of global standards to achieve a h

Battery inspection equipment maker Nsys said in its filings for its IPO on KOSDAQ that it was aiming for annual sales of 50 billion won in 2021.The company has so far showed exponential growth by offering machine vision inspection equipment for each battery production process, the company said in it

Hyundai Motor has delayed turning its recall plan for Kona EV to authorities in light of recent fires.Hyundai didn’t mention the reasoning behind its decision to delay turning in the plan to South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport People familiar with the matter said the delay i

SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won on Friday stressed the collaboration between the industry and academia for innovation in battery technology.The chairman also said the collaboration is critical for the growth of the battery ecosystem.Chey credited the recent success in the battery industry to the coll

Coasia said on Wednesday had the most number of engineers among its competitors within Samsung Foundry’s ecosystem.The company, combined with its subsidiary Coasia Semi, had 210 engineers, a Coasia spokesperson said.By contrast, Samsung Foundry’s other design house partners Hanatec, Alpha Holdings,

Meere Company said on Wednesday that it has launched a new 3D Time of Flight camera called S.Cube.S.Cube was made by applying Meere’s ASIC chip MR1000 to Samsung System LSI’s ToF image sensor. MR1000 has a distance calculating algorithm.Meere said the new S.Cube is smaller than previous ToF cameras

Chips&Media will launch its new high-resolution video IP product called Wave6 Series in March, TheElec has learned.The first product in the series, called Wave627 (encoder IP), will support AV1 and VVC(H.266) standards.The company will launch Wave637 (codec IP) in August and Wave617 (decoder IP) wit

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that it will launch Samsung Kiosk, its smart order solution, in South Korea within the first half of 2021.Sales in Asia and Australia will also begin within the first half of 2021, it said.The kiosk is used to order food and for payment in restaurants, cafes and

Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it will be holding its 52nd annual shareholders’ meeting at Suwon Convention Center on March 17.The dividend plan, which added 10.7 trillion won recently, and financial statements for 2021 will be proposed for approval.The motion to rename Kim Ki-nam, HS Kim

BOE is planning to commercially launch a MicroOLED display in the second half of 2021, TheElec has learned.The panel will be applied to products that support augmented reality and virtual reality viewing.BOE had been developing MicroOLED since 2018 through Kunming BOE Display Technology, its joint v

Qualcomm on Tuesday unveiled two 5G Modem-RF Systems, Snapdragon X65 and Snapdragon X62.The Gen 4 Snapdragon X65 5G modem is the world’s first modem-RF system based on 3GPP Release 16. It provides download speed of up to 10Gbps, which means 33GB UHD film can be downloaded within 30 seconds.RF output

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 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

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it plans to expand the application of magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM).MRAM stores data in magnetic domains, unlike most RAMs that store them in electric charge or current flows.The company improved the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) function of its MRAM to make

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

Display equipment maker Meere Company will supply its edge grinder for Tianma’s Gen 6 OLED production line.According to chinabidding.com, the Korean company won an order for edge griners and edge inspection equipment from the Chinese display giant last week.Edge grinder uses a grinding wheel to make

Samsung Electronics has requested four patents owned by Ericsson to be invalidated to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on January 29, TheElec has learned.Two of the four patents are standard essential patents (SEP). One, Patent 10,454,655, deals with wireless handset, wireless t