Bank of Korea (BOK) said Thursday it expects a positive outlook for memory semiconductors in the mid- to long-term.The market’s recovery from lowered demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic was slower than it predicted earlier, but memory chips will see growth starting in the third quarter, the central

SK Hynix has begin development of a 1a (15-nanometer)-class DRAM that will use extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process in its production, sources within the company told TheElec Thursday.The 4th-generation 10-nanometer-class DRAM is internally called “Canopus” __ the brightest star in the Carina Constella

Arm has unveiled a new suit of mobile IP that will offering greater efficiency and performance for 5G and AI, the company announced Tuesday.They include the Cortex-A78 CPU, the Mali-G78 GPU, the Mali-G68 and the Ethos-N78 NPU. Arm will also offer a new program that will allow customize the products

A key supplier of semiconductor equipment to Samsung Electronics has seen its first quarter earnings recover.It signals that the world’s largest memory chip maker is resuming investment into semiconductors after it decreased it due to the global downturn of the memory market. The move is expected to

South Korean image sensor company PixelPlus is facing the possibility of being delisted from the country's secondary bourse KOSDAQ from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.The company has posted four-straight years of losses as of last year and is already on the stock exchange’s management list due

South Korean fabless companies have performed strongly in the first quarter, backed by large volumes of order from Chinese clients, their filings to the local finance watchdog showed Friday.However, uncertainty remains high for the second quarter from the US-China trade war and lackluster performanc

Samsung Electronics has begun construction of a new foundry line at its plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, the company announced Thursday.The line will produce chips using extreme ultraviolet (EUV)-based 5-nanometer (nm) process, the company said, and will began operations in the second half of 2021.

Samsung has launched a new 50-megapixel (Mp) image sensor aimed at smartphones that comes with strengthened auto-focus, the company said. ISOCELL GN1 comes with 1.2 micrometer-sized pixels and and has phase detection auto-focus, or PDAF, Samsung said. The PDAF will allow the sensor to produce image

Chip makers are expected to cut investment into production facilities this year, as was the case in 2019 when there was a severe supply glut to cope with.According to a recent report from market research firm Omdia, the global volume of investment into DRAM production facilities was forecast to fall

US-based Broadcom, maker of chips for power smartphones, computers and networking equipment, has pledged not to offer incentives to TV and modem makers to encourage them to acquire more than 50% of their products worldwide or in Europe, according to the foreign press on April 28.“In these uncertain

Local semiconductor testing solution firm Exicon is developing a CMOS (CIS tester) image sensor testing solution to expand its horizons, according to industry sources on April 17.The solution is to be completed within this year, with aim to begin supplying major local clients beginning in 2021, they

Homegrown semiconductor startup Fadu is in the supplier qualification process in a bid to ink a deal with US tech giant Apple, according to industry sources on April 16.Fadu is looking to supply NAND flash memory controllers for Apple’s cloud data center infrastructure, the sources said. If Fadu is

MagnaChip plans to focus on display and power solutions now that it has signed off to sell its foundry business and Fab 4 manufacturing facility located in North Chungcheong Province in a deal valued at about $435 million.On Mar. 31, MagnaChip said it inked the contract with a consortium led by priv

South Korea’s SKC is out to commercialize indigenously-developed high-end mask blanks that are an essential part of producing semiconductors.Mask blanks are base substrate plates of photomasks in which optical films of several compositions are deposited on the polished surface of low thermal expansi

LG Group’s fabless chipmaking unit Silicon Works will be commercializing the ARM Cortex-M3 based microcontroller unit (MCU) it developed in 2019 in a move marking its venture into the digital semiconductor markets, according to industry sources on Mar. 19.The chips will be produced by Taiwan’s TSMC,

South Korean startup Optolane has recently submitted a digital, real time PCR kit to the Korea Centers for Disease Control& Prevention to help diagnose COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus.Optolane CEO Lee Do-young said the firm is also planning to go overseas with the solution as soon as possibl

Competition in the global handset display driver IC (DDI) for OLED panels, which had more or less been dominated by Samsung Electronics’ System LSI Division, is intensifying as more Chinese and Taiwanese companies are entering the race.In 2019, Samsung had more than a 60% share of the world’s OLED D

SemiFive is pursuing Series A investment after securing a KRW 9.1 billion seed-level investment in 2019, according to industry sources on Feb. 17.With aim to close the round by early May at the latest, the firm is approaching key institutional investors based on a valuation at around KRW 100 billion

Korean semiconductor testing equipment maker Uni-test has secured a Chinese memory chip company as a new client for burn-in testing equipment as it moves to diversify its portfolio, according to industry sources on Jan. 28.Uni-test is reportedly in last-stage talks, meaning that the firm may be supp

Fabless semiconductor firm Dongwoon Anatech has successfully supplied OIS Auto Focus (AF) Driver ICs for rear camera modules fitted into Huawei Technologies’ upcoming P40 smartphones, according to industry sources on Jan. 21.Until now, Huawei had partnered with US-based ON Semiconductor for the Driv