South Korean fabless companies have posted mixed results for the third quarter of 2020.Twenty three fabless companies combined posted sales of 724.8 billion won in sales in the third quarter, a rise of 23.3% year-on-year. Silicon Works accounted for half of the sales and its growth impacted the figu

Outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) market grew in the third quarter, continuing its growth trajectory of the first half of 2020, data from market research firm TrendForce shows.The top OSAT companies in the world marked US$6.799 billion in sales in the third quarter, an increase of 12

Mediatek will acquire Intel’s power management semiconductor business for US$85 million, the company said on Tuesday.The Taiwanese company’s subsidiary Richtek Technology will buy Intel’s Enpirion.Enpirion supplies power management solution for FPGA, system-on-a-chip (SoC), CPU and ASIC.Mediatek has

South Korean semiconductor and display equipment maker saw their earnings recover in the third quarter.Semiconductor kit maker were helped by investments from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Display equipment companies benefited from Chinese panel makers such as BOE and HKC increasing investments

Worldwide automotive semiconductor sales will contract 9.6% this year to US$38 billion, according to market research firm IHS Markit.However, this is better than IHS Markit’s early estimation that sales will contract by 20% compared to 2019 due to low demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.High dema

Apple on Tuesday unveiled its self-developed PC processor M1.The chip will power its new 13-inch MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and Mac Mini.Cupertino has powered its iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch with its self-developed Arm-based system-on-a-chip (Soc) in the past but this is its first for its notebook se

Hyundai Motor will install Nvidia Drive-based connected car operating system (ccOS) in all its car models launching in 2022.The OS will be applied to all Hyundai, Kia and Genesys brand cars, from the entry level to the premium level.Hyundai and Nvidia has been collaborating on the technology since 2

U-blox is planning to expand its GNSS business to include wearables.Its GNSS platform aimed at wearables, called M10, was launched worldwide on November 6.U-blox’s Korea country manager KS Son said while the company focused on products from automobile in the past, the new M10 was made with both cons

Semiconductor package boding wire company MK Electron is expanding its supply of solder paste, tape and film, TheElec has confirmed.The company is seeing “meaningful” sales from solder paste and electro magnetic interference (EMI) shielding disposable films, a MK Electron official said.The materials

China’s SmartSens has secured US$225 million in investment in its latest funding round, the company said on Friday.The firm will focus on developing chip architecture for CMOS image sensors (CIS) with the latest funds.State-owned China Integrated Circuit Investment Fund, Xiaomi Changing Industrial F

SK Hynix will triple its sales from its NAND flash memory business in the next five years following its acquisition of Intel’s NAND unit, company CEO Lee Seok-hee said on Wednesday.Speaking at the company’s third quarters conference call, Lee said the company aims to become a top memory player, not

SK Hynix has posted operating profit of 1.29 trillion won and sales of 8.12 trillion won in the third quarter.It is a rise of 175% and 18.9%, respectively, year-on-year, the South Korean firm said.Net income also stood a 1.07 trillion won.Huawei’s inventory buildup prior to US sanctions taking effec

Semes, the semiconductor and display equipment making subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, is expected to post over 2 trillion won in full year sales for 2020, the company CEO told TheElec.Semes CEO Kang Chang-jin said the company has already surpassed the 2 trillion won mark as of end of October.This

Samsung Electronics has invested around 74 billion won into four local semiconductor material, component and equipment companies.The companies are KCTech, Mico Ceramics, LOTVacuum and New Power Plasma __ Samsung put in equity investments of 20.7 billion won, 21.6 billion won, 18.9 billion won and 12

Prices of DRAM and NAND flash memories nosedived in October, likely due to the US sanctions against Huawei taking into effect.According to DRAMeXchange, fixed prices of PC DDR4 8Gb fell 8.9% in October compared to September to US$2.85.This differs from August and September when the price remained st

Semiconductor testing equipment maker Exicon is expanding its supply of DDR5 DRAM testing kit to Samsung Electronics, TheElec has learned.Exicon has supplying its DDR5 DRAM testing kit, the i1520, since late last year.Its latest kit, to be supplied to Samsung, can test DDR3, DDR4 and DDR5 for PC as

SK Hynix CEO Lee Seok-hee said on Thursday that he doesn’t believe the acquisition price for Intel’s NAND unit was expensive.Lee was responding to questions from reporters following a local tradeshow.The CEO said the price of US$9 billion reflects Intel’s competence in solid-state drives (SSD) and i

AMD will buy rival semiconductor company Xilinx in an all-stock deal worth US$35 billion, the pair announced on Tuesday.AMD to will likely leverage Xilinx’s field programmable gate array (FPGA) to increase its competence in offerings for data centers and machine learning.Xilinx stockholders will rec

Semiconductor IP company Chips&Media saw its operating profits rise 25% year over year in the third quarter of 2020.The company said it posted 1.3 billion won in operating profits and 4.8 billion won in sales in the quarter.The company secured a new US client __ which is one of the top ten semicondu

US materials company Inpria has begun production of MOx-based inorganic photoresist (PR).Its high volume manufacturing facility has gone live recently and the company will be able to service the demand for inorganic PR, Inpria CEO Andrew Grenvile said at SMC 2020 hosted by SEMI.The facility has a pr