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

Semiconductor component firm MK Electronics said on Thursday that it will acquire Dongbu nTech, a subsidiary of Dongbu Corporation.MK Electron has agreed to buy 100% share of Dongbu nTech for 45.45 billion won on September 30.Dongbu nTech specializes in waste disposal, facility maintenance and manag

Samsung Electronics has ended its semiconductor distribution rights contract with Mujin Electronics as of the end of June, TheElec has learned.The South Korean tech giant will be handing over the rights to electronic component distributor SAMT instead. This process will be done in September.SAMT wil

Exicon said on Wednesday that it has completed the development of a new CMOS image sensor (CIS) test equipment, together with Samsung.The equipment are being evaluated by customers, a Exicon spokesperson said.The equipment will likely be commercialized in the fourth quarter, they said.Japan’s Advant

More semiconductor companies are gearing up to start operations in their new silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power management IC fabs in the second half of the year.STMicroelectronics began SiC wafer production at its fab in Sweden last month. The company acquired the fab when it bou

Auros Technology has developed an 8-inch wafer overlay measurement equipment, a first for a South Korean company.The company has supplied the equipment, called Overlay System OL-100n, to Korea Advanced Nano Fab Center (KANC) back in June, people familiar with the matter said.It will be used in KANC’

SKC Solmics, the semiconductor component and material subsidiary of SKC, has begun the operation of its new chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) pad factory at Cheonan, South Korea, the company said on Tuesday.SKC Solmics spent 47 billion won for the new factory that started construction last year.Th

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is planning to wrap up its review of Chinese private equity firm Wise Road Capital’s acquisition of South Korean chipmaker Magnachip by September 13.CFIUS has previously rejected acquisition and merger plans of Chinese companies such a

Surplus Global, a South Korean pre-owned fab equipment seller, said on Tuesday that it has moved its headquarters and exhibition zone to its new building at Yongin, Gyeonggi Province.The new exhibition zone at Yongin is three times larger than its previous one at Osan.The new zone also has a clean r