Philoptics said on Friday that it has won additional orders for its back side align (BSA) direct image (DI) exposure machine used in semiconductor production.The machines uses special lighting and camera to detect BSA mark on wafers. It can increase the accuracy of the alignment between the front an

Robotic automation firm Raontec is planning to list on KOSDAQ in May. The company filed a security report for the listing to financial authorities on Friday.The company previously listed on KONEX in 2015. It is planning to list on the higher tier bourse through the special exemption rule for technol

SK Hynix has settled its patent lawsuit with Netlist.The South Korean memory maker will pay royalties to the latter under their patent cross-licensing agreement, the company said.SK Hynix will be paying around US$40 million for use of Netlist’ patents.In 2016, Netlist filed a patent infringement law

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

South Korean semiconductor deposition equipment maker Eugune Technology has won a large order for atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment from Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor division, TheElec has learned.Eugune beat Japan’s Kokusai Electric to win the large order. Samsung had relied on Kokusai f

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

The top 40 semiconductor and display equipment companies in South Korea saw their operating income and sales increase substantially in 2020.The companies combined recorded 12.72 trillion won in sales and 1.22 trillion won in operating income, an increase of 25.8% and 66.5%, respectively, from 2019,

The South Korean government is aiming to foster the production of silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductor.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Thursday that the country will aim to develop over five commercial power chips by 2025.Power chips that are made wi

Global semiconductor IP giant Arm has unveiled its new Armv9 architecture on Wednesday. It is first new architecture in 10 years since the launch of Armv8.New chips designed with Armv9 will be launched later this year.Arm said it strengthened digial signal processing (DSP) and machine learning (ML)

A former president of Samsung Electronics told an industry seminar on Tuesday that South Korea needs a national strategy so that the local semiconductor industry can leap forward again.Skylake Investment CEO Daeje Chin, who formerly headed Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor business and was a Minist

Display equipment maker JASTech said on Tuesday that it will start a new business for diagnosis kits.The new business is aimed at a post-pandemic era, the company said, as it expected demand for diagnosis kit to grow due to the increased interest in health.JASTech currently relies heavily on display

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

Production at Samsung Electronics’ chip plant in Austin, Texas has normalized as of last week after cold weathers there halted production for six weeks.A Samsung spokesperson said operation was returning to levels prior to the halt.The company was forced to shutdown operation of its factory last mon

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

Display equipment maker Philoptics will aim to supply fab equipment for new growth, the company CEO said on Monday at its shareholders’ meeting.Philoptics CEO Han Ki-soo said the company was preparing to manufacture and supplying wafer bonding equipment and was aiming to win an order for them within

EO Technics CEO Sung Kyu-dong said on Friday that the uptick in the global semiconductor and printed circuit board (PCB) markets will help the company’s growth in 2021.The increase demand for chips will continue to help the company’s growth, the CEO said at its shareholders’ meeting.EO Technics was

Samsung has developed a 512GB DDR5 memory module and is collaborating with Intel in the transition to DDR5.The company said Thursday that its latest memory supports data transfer rate of up to 7,200Mbps, double that of DDR4. This means two 30GB UHD movie can be processed within a second, Samsung sai