ITM Semiconductor have supplied battery production circuits for IQOS e-cigarettes produced by Philip Morris.The Korean company had been producing the circuits for IQOS 3 in its factory in Vietnam since the second half of 2020, people familiar with the matter said.ITM Semiconductor is also doing batt

China’s locally produced integrated circuits (IC) will represent only 19.4% of its IC market in 2025, according to market research firm IC Insights.This falls short of the country’s Made in China 2025 goal of 70%, the firm said.Last year, China-produced ICs accounted for 15.9% of the country’s IC ma

System semiconductor design company Coasia and design service firm Hanatec on Wednesday signed a technology and personnel sharing agreement to win global orders together.Both companies are official design solution partners of Samsung Electronics’ Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE) alliance.Th

Camera module maker Partron has supplied around 100 units of 5G routers that support mmWave to LG Plus, TheElec has learned.The companies were discussing additional supplies. The 5G router business is led by 42-year-old Kim Won-keun, son of Partron’s largest shareholder, the 72-year-old Kim Jong-koo

The South Korea government is expecting semiconductor export to surpass US$100 billion in 2021.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Tuesday that export is estimated to increase 10.2% this year to US$109.3 billion from last year’s US$99.2 billion.This will be the second highest ever fig

Samsung Electronics said on Monday that vice chairman Lee Jae-yong visited the company’s Pyeongtaek semiconductor plant.According to Samsung, Lee told executives and employees that they must collaborate with partners, academia and research institutes to build a healthy ecosystem to make history in s

A shortage in production capacity compared to demand in semiconductors is expected to increase their prices in 2021. Some companies have already notified their customers of the price hike.TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip maker, recently scrapped its price cut policy (up to 3%) for major custo

Youil Energy Tech was developing roll to roll notching equipment for battery production to reduce its reliance on sales from SK Innovation.The company said 99.9% of its sales in the third quarter of 2020 came from SK Innovation.Youil was currently supplying roll to sheet notching equipment to SK Inn

ACM Research has launched alloy anneal capabilities for its Ultra Fn Furnace tool to extend its furnace product line to power device manufacturers. The new feature was added in to meet requirements from insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) devices as transistors get thinner, smaller and faster.T

South Korean company KEC has developed a low voltage MOSFET (LV MOSET) semiconductor for vehicle heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC).The company will supply the chips, called KFS70N06K, to Hanon Systems and Doowon Climate Control, it said on Wednesday.The chip will be applied to blow m

US sanctions against Chinese companies, especially Huawei and TCL, is set to benefit their South Korean rivals Samsung and LG.US’s Department of Homeland Security was reviewing sanctioning TCL, according to Reuters. Acting Secretary Chad Wolf told the Heritage Foundation that TCL was installing back

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet that he had contacted Apple CEO Tim Cook to discuss potentially selling Tesla but Cook refused the meeting. The tweet was made after it was reported that Apple is planning to launch an autonomous car of its own with electric vehicle batter. So far, Apple has refus

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.