The global top five fab equipment makers all recorded strong growths in their latest quarters.Applied Materials, ASML, Lam Research, Tokyo Electron and KLA all recorded double digit growths in their revenue and operating income compared to a year ago.The companies benefited from high demand for thei

Pixelplus said on Friday that it has won an order to supply image sensor for surround view monitors (SVM) to a Japanese automobile maker.The company will supply an initial stock worth 4.5 billion won of the sensors.Pixelplus said the company is in talk with the customer to expand supply going forwar

Most South Korean fabless chip companies recorded poor earnings during the second quarter due to the prolonged global chip shortage.However, some of the companies saw profits thanks to increase in unit prices.LX Semicon, meanwhile, saw operating income increase by nine times from a year ago during t

Mecaro president Lee Jong-soo will be joining Jusung Engineering around the end of the month, TheElec has learned.Lee will become president of Jusung’s semiconductor business, replacing Roh Jae-sung.He was previously an executive at South Korean chip giant SK Hynix.Jusung chairman Hwang Chul-joo is

Ram Tech said on Thursday that it is actively working to go through its plan to build a new factory at the city of Dangjin.The company will communicate with the local government, which recently rejected its factory plan, to take the project back on track.Ram Tech has succeeded in producing hydrogen

Semiconductor IP firm Chips&Media said on Wednesday that it has signed an IP contract with a US-based mobile semiconductor company.In 2019, the firm had signed a similar contract with one of the so-called FAANG companies __ Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google.Chips&Media said it is expecting

SK Hynix on Wednesday launched a 2TB option for its Gold P31 solid-state drive (SSD) brand for consumers.The company first launched 1TB and 500GB models of the brand in January.Gold P31 comes in PCIe NVMe interface and M.2 form factor.SK Hynix said the PCE3 NVMe interface boasts six times the speed

South Korean equipment makers posted mixed results in the second quarter.Fab equipment makers recorded strong earnings during the quarter, while display equipment makers posted poor performances.Multiple fab equipment makers recorded triple digit growths and marked record earnings in the second quar

Auros Technology said on Tuesday that it has posted 30.28 billion won in sales from the January to June time period.This already exceeds the sales of the overlay equipment maker’s sales of 17.5 billion won for the entire year of 2020.Auros recorded 22.6 billion won in sales during the first quarter

Samsung Electronics has narrowed its market share in CMOS image sensors (CIS) with Sony by a few points last year, according to date from research firm Yole Development.The Japanese tech giant held a 40% market share in the sector in 2020, which is 2 points lower than the previous year. During the s

Intel’s latest Gen 3 Xeon Scalable Processor, codenamed Ice Lake, will take up up to 30% of the global server CPU market by the year’s end, according to market research firm TrendForce.The US chip giant announced the x86 architecture-based processor in April.Intel has claimed the processor has 1.46

South Korean chip foundry company DB HiTek saw its operating profit margin rate reach 30% during the second quarter of 2021 from high demand for its contract chip production services.The company said on Friday that it recorded 274.7 billion won in sales and 81.4 billion won in operating income durin

Optical inspection equipment makers are facing difficulty securing machine vision cameras due to a shortage caused by high demand, TheElec has learned.Lead time for the cameras has been usually around eight weeks but this has been extended up to 52 weeks, multiple people working at equipment compani

The regional manager and key executives at KLA’s business unit in South Korea are expected to quit soon, TheElec has learned.KLA-Tencor Korea president Bruce Chung and up to five others have quit or is planning to quit the company soon, people familiar with the matter said.KLA’s US headquarters is e

Tesna said on Wednesday that it plans to spend 81.9 billion won to buy additional; equipment to put in its testing facility for CMOS image sensors (CIS) and RF chips.The company is doing so to prepare for more orders to come from customer Samsung.It will buy CIS and RF chip testing equipment that wi

Lam Research has sent a letter to South Korean fab equipment maker PSK through a local law firm, claiming they infringed its patents.The US fab equipment giant set the latter via Kim & Chang, claiming that its South Korean counterpart infringed on its patents related to bevel etcher.The move can lea

Key Foundry has developed a new semiconductor design toolkit that it says will shorten development time for chip firms.The firm had previously supplied process design kits (PDK) that support chip design tools provided by Synopsys, Candence and Siemens.The latest PDK Version E adds PDK setup environm

RAM Tech’s plan to build a new hydrogen fluoride plant at Dangjin, South Korea has been denied by the local government.Dangjin’s city hall said on Monday that it has rejected the plan.Local residents have voiced their opposition to the plan.A RAM Tech spokesperson said the company plans to launch a

Samsung Electronics has expanded its plan to apply pellicles during the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process used in wafer fabrication starting in 2023, TheElec has learned.The company intended to use pellicles for the wafer fabrication of certain high-value chips, but is now planning to apply it to al

Lithography equipment used in the back-end process of wafer fabrication will grow thanks to increased demand for CMOS image sensors (CIS) and power management ICs, according to Yole Development.As it becomes increasing difficult for chip makers to shorten the gate length in the front-end process, th