Silicon Labs said on Thursday that it will sell its Infrastructure & Automotive business to Skyworks Solutions for US$2.75 billion in an all-cash deal.The transaction includes power, timing and broadcast products, intellectual property and 350 associated employees.Silicon Labs expects to receive aro

Membrane system firm SepraTek has chosen to head a South Korean national project to develop dissolved oxygen (DO) membrane degasifier (MDG), the company announced.A SepraTek spokesperson said the company has its own membrane contactor technology that is more efficient had removing dissolved gas comp

Swagelok Korea is expecting increased sales from its fluid systems used in semiconductor production this year.The US-based company manufactures gas and fluid systems components, such as fittings, valves and hoses. Its Korean subsidiary provides its services to Samsung, SK Hynix and local fab equipme

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix has refused to take part in a preliminary review for a South Korean government project to develop next-generation processing-in-memory (PIM).The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has chosen PIM AI semiconductor as a national p

ASML said on Wednesday that it has recorded 4.36 billion euros in net sales and 1.33 billion in net income in the first quarter of 2021.This is a rise of 83.3% and 225%, respectively, from a year ago.The Netherlands-based company sold seven units of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) system in the first quar

Yes Power Technix, a subsidiary of YEST, will receive silicon carbide (SiC) trend MOSFET technology from the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) for 2 billion won, the company announced.The technology was developed by KERI. South Korea is the third country after Japan and Germany to de

Applied Materials has touted its latest optical wafer inspection system that utilizes big data and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in South Korea.The company said at an online press event for South Korean media that it plans to expand its supply of its systems from foundry and logic to mem

Hanmi Semiconductor recorded 70.5 billion won in sales and 18.5 billion won in operating income in the first quarter of 2021.This is a rise of 80.1% and 161.5%, respectively, from the same time period a year ago.The company said it is seeing a surge in orders for semiconductor production equipment d

South Korean fab equipment manufacturer Jusung Engineering has won orders from SK Hynix for multiple units of atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment that will be used to manufacture next-generation DRAM, TheElec has learned.The South Korean memory maker is planning to use the equipment to deposit h

The power outage this week at TSMC’s P7 plant is expected to affect customers Renesas, NXP and Sony to varying degrees, according to market research firm TrendForce.The plant suffered a power outage due to accidental severing of a power cable during construction on Wednesday. Power was restored on t

DB HiTek is planning to expand its image sensor foundry business.The company said on Friday that it has developed global shutter and single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) processes based on its 110-nanometer (nm) platform.The South Korean foundry will begin multi-wafer project program for fabless cus

TSMC said on Wednesday that it suffered a power outage at its P14 plant which was recovered on the same day, according to Reuters.Some of the machines still worked during the outage thanks to backup systems, the Taiwanese chip giant said.The company will investigate the damages caused by the outage.

SK Hynix has formed a new group that will focus on development of fab equipment technologies, TheElec has learned.The South Korean memory maker had hired an outside expert and named them an executive vice president to lead the fab equipment development group.The group will be under direction supervi

Analog Devices said on Tuesday launched reference design for a 16-channel mixed-signal front-end (MxFE) digitizer.The digitizers are for aerospace and defense applications such as phased array radars and ground-based satellite communications.They include four AD9081 or four AD9082 software-defined d

Samsung Electronics is planning to sell around 400 units of fab equipment to UMC to be used in the latter’s factory in Taiwan, according Taiwan Economic Daily.The pair has recently signed a contract for UMC to manufacture Samsung’s image sensors.The equipment will be used in UMC’s P6 plant at Nanke.

The Korea Semiconductor Industry Association (KSIA) has asked the South Korean government to enact new laws that provide support for the industry.The association said in an open letter that the US was planning to offer up to 40% tax reduction for semiconductor equipment spending, while the European

Samsung Electronics said on Friday that it will encourage open source innovation with its own storage platform called Project Poseidon.Project Poseidon is the company’s disaggregated storage platform designed to meet the needs of hyperscale server manufacturers and the data center market.Earlier in

South Korean fabless firm Pixelplus will begin selling its facial recognition image sensor in China this year, TheElec has learned.The company is attempting to diversify its revenue steram and reduce its reliance on biometric recognition solution for CCTVs and automobiles.Facial recognition systems

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

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