The prolonged suspension of Samsung’s chip plant in Austin due to power shortage caused by freeze is increasing the possibility that smartphone production of the Korean company and Apple maybe negatively affected from the fallout.The chip plant in Texas manufacturers chips for the world’s two larges

Daeduck Electronics will invest 70 billion won to expand its production capacity of flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA), TheElec has learned.It follows the company’s 90 billion won investment into the business last year. With the additional investment, Daeduck will have spend 160 billion won in FC-BG

Display panel manufacturers TCL and Innolux have said they are expecting supply of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels to be tight throughout the year.TCL chairman Li Dongsheng said at a media briefing last week that the shortage in panels will continue in the first half of 2021. The situation for t

KNW said on Monday that it has completed the acquisition of Solvay Korea.The company acquired 4 million shares for 20 billion won.KNW has secured fluorine (F2) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) businesses through the acquisition. The chemicals are used for semiconductor production and as insulators in g

Merck said on Friday that it will be changing the name of its performance materials business to electronics.The name change was part of its strategic realignment for the past couple of years, the company said. It was part of its Bright Future program that started in 2018, Merck said.“The renaming of

Interests for virtual reality, augmented reality and extended reality __ which combines the two, know as XR __ remain strong.However, what direction XR will develop technologically remain uncertain. And despite some industrial applications, a mass market XR consumer devices seem far away from realit

South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Thursday that it has formed a council to promote collaboration between local semiconductor and automobile companies.The announcement comes amid a global shortage of semiconductors that have caused automobile companies to suspend production

A research team of a South Korean university has developed a 738GHz high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) for potential applications in 6G networks.The team led by professor Kim Dae-hyun of Kyungpook National University’s College of IT Engineering developed the HEMT. It is over 30GHz than the pre

AP Systems said on Wednesday that it has recorded 591.8 billion won in sales and 46.2 billion won in operating income for the entire year of 2020.It is a jump of 28% and 63%, respectively, from 2019. It is the company’s highest annual operating profit on record.Improvement in produce mix for semicon

Printed circuit board (PCB) market was still a blue ocean, with South Korean companies strong in areas such as semiconductors, the chairman of Korea Printed Circuit Association (KPCA) said.KPCA chairman Baek Tae-il said he was shocked to learn that there was a general perception in South Korea that

Neontech was the exclusive supplier of cutting equipment for multi layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) to Samsung Electro-Mechanics new factory in Tianjin, China, TheElec has learned.The factory began trial production in September last year. Samsung’s potential additional investment to expand the factory

Nordic Semiconductor will expand into the cellular Internet of Things (IoT) market of South Korea this year, a company executive said.Nordic has focused on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) so far. But starting this year, it will supply long-distance wireless technology, Sean Choi, the company’s regional s

Samsung Electronics has secured stakes in a South Korean company that manufacturers pellicles used in semiconductor production.FST said on Tuesday that it has issued 1.52 million shares for Samsung to purchase. The Korean tech giant will secure a 6.9% stake in the company, becoming the third largest

Global chip sales is expected to remain strong in 2021 but also challenging and will require bold actions from the government for US to capitalize on them, a senior executive of the semiconductor industry said on Thursday.In 2020, industry sales for the year ticked up 6.8% from the 2019 total, reach

Samsung Electronics’ application of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology on its latest DRAM has showed fabrication benefits in scaling, expediting production and improved performance yields, according to reverse engineering analysis firm Techinsights.Samsung applied EUV technology on 1zn

Iljin Electric said on Wednesday that it will supply 60.1 billion won worth of power line to Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO).The lines will be used by the national utility to supply power produced at Dangjin Thermal Power Plant on west coast to Godeok Samsung Industrial Park at Pyeongtaek,

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

Iljin Materials said on Tuesday that it has begun supplying 2 micrometers ultra thin copper foils to Samsung Electronics.They are used for semiconductor packaging.Japanese companies such as Mitsui previously dominated copper foils that are 2 micrometers-thin but Iljin began development of them in 20

Samsung Electronics’ president of its memory business has been named the chairman of the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association (KSIA).Lee Jung-bae will become the 12th chairman of the association, starting in March until February 2022, unless there are objections.Lee, a graduate of Seoul National

Applied Materials is expecting wafer fab equipment investments in 2021 to hit record numbers.Investments into semiconductors recovered in 2020 and this momentum is expected to continue throughout 2021, company CEO Gary Dickerson said at Applied Materials’ conference call for its fiscal first quarter