Semiconductor IP company CEVA will focus on offering automotive digital signal processor (DSP) IP to South Korea next year, the company said.CEVA was founded in 2002 and offers DSP IP and related software for companies. In 2014 it acquired RivieraWaves and in 2019 it bought Hillcrest Labs to expand

LG Electronics will split off part of its business to form a joint venture with Canadian automobile component maker Magna International, the companies said on Wednesday.LG will split of its green business, part of its vehicle component solution business, to form a new wholly owned company. Magna wil

Samsung Electro-Mechanics CEO Kye Hyun Kyung was instrumental in Chemtronics being chosen as the preferred bidder for the company’s wireless telecommunication module business, TheElec has learned.Kyung has considered the synergy between the business and those of the supplier’s after the purchase is

Ace Technologies’ order for electronics manufacturing service (EMS) from a European telecom equipment maker has been delayed to next year, TheElec has learned.The South Korean company was expected be named in September and starting producing the kits to its customers within the year.Ace Technologies

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Thursday said it will take expression of interests (EOI) from foreign chip makers to build semiconductor wafer fabs, local media Swarayja reports.The deadline is January 31 and the ministry is taking applications from integrated d

Artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors will have explosive growth as their application expands to the edge from data centers, a Samsung executive said.A new AI called GPT-3 was recently launched in the US, Changkyu Choi, executive vice president at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, said

LG Uplus on Thursday showed off a trial of its autonomous parking technology for cars.The telco showed off its technology in which a smartphone is used for a consumer to pick an empty parking lot. The car that is registered to the smartphone will then park itself to the lot without the need of a dri

ITM Semiconductor will manufacturer the batteries that will be used in LG Electronics’ new smartphone launching next year, TheElec has learned.ITM Semiconductor has previously mostly assembled battery packs for Samsung’s mobile division. It also supplied Samsung with its battery protection circuits.

Solid’s bid to supply repeaters for London Underground’s network has been postponed to next year.Solid had hoped that the result of the bid would come out by the third quarter of 2020.The South Korean repeater maker is competing with US’ CommScope to supply distributed antenna systems (DAS) repeater

Apple will launch a Lite version of its Airpods Pro wireless earphones without noise canceling feature in the first half of 2021, TheElec has learned.A South Korean material supplier is currently developing a system-in-package (SiP) with Airpods’ H1 chip. The SiP used for H1 chip in the regular Airp

SK Hynix’s foundry factory in Wuxi, China has started operations.According to local media Wuxi Daily, SK Hynix’ subsidiary, Sk Hynix System IC, held a factory production ceremony on December 12.SK Hynix System IC’s factory can handle 8-inch wafers. China has over a thousand fabless companies.Accordi

Samsung Electronics has begun producing the telecom equipment it will supply to US carrier Verizon this month, TheElec has learned.The equipment supply is part of 7.9 trillion won deal between the pair for the South Korean tech giant to supply the carrier with 4G and 5G equipment.The production volu

Hyundai Mobis will acquire the semiconductor business of affiliate Hyundai Autron.The deal was approved by Mobis’ board on Friday and is worth 133.2 billion won.Hyundai Mobis will aim to grow is competence in designing, developing and evaluating semiconductor for automobiles, it said.Its main goal w

South Korea repeater maker CS saw its export of 4G LTE repeaters to Japan increase in the second half of the year, TheElec has learned.The company’s accumulated earnings up to the third quarter was 90 million won in operating loss and 29.3 billion won in sales.But it saw export to Japan increase in

Samsung Electronics unveiled its 110-inch MicroLED TV at an online event in South Korea on Thursday.The South Korean first unveiled a 149-inch MicroLED display called The Wall in 2018. The Wall was aimed at the business-to-business market.The new 110-inch MicroLED TV is aimed at the home market. Mic

Xilinx will reach over 20 million accumulated unit shipment in automobile semiconductors next year, the company said on Wednesday.The company had shipped 19.6 million units so far since 2006, it said.More automobiles are using semiconductors from increased adoption of advanced driver assistance syst

ISC said on Tuesday that it will produce microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based fine-pitch semiconductor test solution.The company said the solution combines a test board with a test socket.A South Korean customer who tested the solution showed that it improved by 90% in performance compared to

LG Uplus said on Tuesday that it has started the trial for 28GHz 5G network.The network has been applied to Kumoh National Institute of Technology for the university’s administrative work and will replace the wired network.LG Uplus hopes the trial leads to development of a cloud system, low-latency

Audio system-on-a-chip (SoC) fabless firm Iron Device said on Tuesday that it has supplied its piezo speaker amplifier technology to Lenovo for their high-end monitors.The company supplies its SMA6101 amplifier for the piezo speaker for LG Electronics’ G8 smartphone last year. It supplied its SMA150

Companies involved in a national project run the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy are turning in their research results in the development of fine metal mask (FMM) used in OLED panel production.APS Holdings, Philoptics, Poongwon Precision and Olum Materials have turned in their one-year result