Auros Technology has won orders to supply overlay equipment for 8-inch wafers from multiple South Korean and Japanese chipmakers, TheElec has learned.The company’s 8-inch OL-100n was being evaluated by up to five companies based in the East Asian countries, sources said.The customers were considerin

Chip design house Gaonchips said it plans to focus on developing IPs for automotive and AI chips.Company CEO Jung Kyu-dong said during the company’s press conference ahead of its IPO said demand for design house services from the semiconductor industry was rising as chipmakers are focusing on develo

Samsung has denied market concerns over the future of its memory and foundry chip businesses during the conference call for the first quarter of 2022 on Thursday.The South Korean tech giant was asked by an analyst about rumors that it could skip the development of 1b DRAM and go right to 1c.1b refer

BOE is expected to continue facing production problems with OLED panels for iPhones due to the ongoing chip shortage, TheElec has learned.The Chinese display panel maker’s production volume for the panels had dropped since February due to the shortage in display driver ICs, as reported by TheElec ea

Samsung is planning to install fab equipment on its new advanced fab P3 at its Pyeongtaek plant early in May, TheElec has learned.The company is aiming to complete the construction of the fab within the second half of this year. In preparation, Samsung will be placing and installing equipment at the

Semes, the chip fab equipment subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, said on Friday that it has recorded 3.12 trillion won in revenue and 353.3 billion won in operating profit for the entire year of 2021.It is the company’s best annual performance to date. Revenue and operating profit also increased 41%

DB HiTek CEO and vice chairman Choi Chang-sik said on Tuesday that the company intends to spend more in 2022 to replace aged 8-inch wafer equipment with new ones.The chip foundry company has been replacing aged 8-inch wafer equipment for the past five years but has so far only managed to replace 30%

DB HiTek had spent more than it initially planned on fab equipment in 2021 thanks to the high demand for its 8-inch foundry services.The company said on Wednesday it spent 49.3 billion won in equipment during the fourth quarter last year.It has already spent 65.9 billion won in equipment up to the t

China’s market share in the global foundry market is expected to remain flat for the next five years, according to analyst firm IC Insights.The country accounted for 8.5% of the global foundry market in 2021 but this will only grow to 8.8% by 2026, according to the firm.China peaked at taking 11.4%

A 14-nanometer (nm) AI SoC designed with SemiFive’s design platform will go into production during the second half of the year, the company said on Friday.The development of the AI chip, which was designed for data center and edge AI applications, had been completed last year in collaboration with t

Qualcomm has given the foundry order for its 3-nanometer (nm) application processor launching next year exclusively to TSMC, TheElec has learned.The US chip giant has also given some of the foundry work for its 4nm application processor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, to the Taiwanese chip giant, which it

Samsung is planning to wrap up quality evaluation for its 3-nanometer (nm) gate-all-around (GAA) process within the first half of 2022.However, despite these efforts by the Korean tech giant to move on to this next advanced semiconductor process node, the company was falling behind in building an in

Samsung has posted solid earnings for the fourth quarter last year thanks to expanded sales of finished products and advanced processing nodes in semiconductors.The company said on Thursday that it has recorded 76.57 trillion won in revenue and 13.87 trillion won in operating profit in the fourth qu

South Korean chip foundry firm DB HiTek said on Wednesday that it has developed process technologies for 130-nanometer (nm) and 110nm RF front-end chips.RF front-end are transceivers used in IT devices from smartphones to IoT modules.It is comprised of an antenna tuner, switch, low noise amplifier,

Semiconductor deposition and etching equipment firm TES’ gas-phase etching equipment (GPE) has passed Samsung Electronics’ quality test, TheElec has learned.It is highly like that the fab equipment maker will supply the GPE equipment to Samsung Foundry within the year.GPE equipment is a dry etching

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is a hot topic in the semiconductor industry right now.Interest in the technology has steadily risen since Samsung first adopted an EUV equipment for its 7-nanometer (nm) foundry service in 2017.The need for more advanced chips in 3nm and 2nm nodes, which is fue

AI chip firm DeepX is planning to launch four neural processing unit (NPU) chips during the third quarter of 2022, TheElec has learned.The chips, model named Genesis, are aimed at edge device, autonomous driving and data center applications, people familiar with the matter said.DeepX will use Samsun

Atomic force microscope firm Park Systems has developed an inspection equipment for masks used in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process in wafer fabrication, TheElec has learned.The equipment can inspect the mask for defects and improvements without damaging it, people familiar with the matter said.

Overlay equipment maker Auros Technology is aiming to expand its revenue from overseas next year to account for 30% of its total, TheElec has learned.Overseas revenue currently accounts for 10% of its total revenue.It is aiming to win new customers, mostly in Greater China, to meet its aim, people f

Semiconductor capital spending this year is expected to reach US$152 billion this year, a 34% increase from 2020, according to market research firm IC Insights.Spending in foundry __ the contract production of chips __ is expected to account for 35% of that total, or US$53 billion, the firm said.It