Intel announced its new 11th generation Intel Core Processor, which was code named Tiger Lake, on Thursday.Computing performance is 10% higher compared to the 10th generation (Ice Lake) and graphic performance has doubled, the chip giant said.HP, Dell, Lenovo and other major PC makers will launch so

DB HiTek said Thursday that it has successfully developed a high-performance microphone based on micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS). The microphone had a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of 65dB, the company said at the online MEMS & Sensor Forum hosted by SEMI.Jung Min-Hyun, a developer at DB HiTek

Broadcom was the number one fabless company in terms of sales in the second quarter, beating Qualcomm, according to market research firm TrendForce.The company had temporarily ceded its top position to Qualcomm in the first quarter.Broadcom saw sales slow due to the trade dispute between US and Chin

KEC has clinched a supply deal with Tesla to provide them with LV MOSFET TVS used in digital cockpits, the company said on Tuesday.Supply for the chips will begin in 2021.They will be used for over-voltage protection and over-current protection on touch screen liquid crystal display (LCD) panels on

Nextin, the semiconductor wafer inspection equipment making subsidiary of APS Holdings, aims to diversify its current revenue stream that is lopsided towards SK Hynix, the company said.The company, which is planning to go public on KOSDAQ in October, said it expected sales from Samsung Electronics a

Samsung Electronics’ second factory at its Pyeongtaek semiconductor plant has begun mass production, the company said.It will produce 3rd generation 10-nanometer (nm) LPDDR5 mobile DRAM using the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process, Samsung said.The factory, called Pyeongtaek Line 2, is being designed

Semiconductor wafer transfer equipment maker Cymechs will receive funding from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy to develop new wafer transfer robots used in chip production lines, the company said on Wednesday.The company will be eligible to get up to 8 billion won in funding for the next

The world’s ton ten semiconductor companies have seen their sales rise 17% in the first half of 2020 compared to a year ago, according to IC Insights.Their combined sales in the first half of the year was US$147.093 billion, the research firm said. All saw growth in the time period except Broadcom a

CMOS image sensor (CIS) market is expected to contract for the first time in 10 years in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.Before the virus outbreak, it was expected that 5G smartphones would lead to rise in demand for CIS. Market leader Sony spent 1 trillion won in October last year t

South Korean semiconductor materials start-up UBmaterials has developed a slurry used for the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process in chip production, TheElec has learned.The slurry was co-developed by South Korean memory giant SK Hynix. Development is, however, at this time partially complet

Memory semiconductor sales will grow substantially this year, especially the non-volatile NAND Flash memory, according to IC Insights.NAND Flash sales will grow 27% this year compared to a year prior to be worth US$56 billion, the research firm said. IC Insights earlier in January estimated that NAN

Intel has showed off four successes cases in various industries where its edge artificial intelligence (AI) solution was applied in a virtual forum in South Korea on Wednesday.The solutions was applied in companies in the military, software, manufacturing and sensor industries.Hanwha Techwin launche

Power transistor market will hit bottom this year and begin recovering in 2021, according to market research firm IC Insights.The market will grow 7% next year to be worth US$16.9 billion.This year’s power transistor market contracted 7% from a year prior due to COVID-19 pandemic.In 2022, the market

Apple has said it will design its own CPU for future PCs at WWDC 2020 last month. It also hinted that it will use Arm architecture rather than Intel x86.This isn’t an unfamiliar sight. Apple chose x86 over IBM PowerPC back in 2005. And before PowerPC it was Motorola’s CPU.Cupertino isn’t the only on

DB Group is in fierce debate internally on how to proceed with the factory expansion plan for its semiconductor contract making affiliate DB HiTek, sources within the group told TheElec on Thursday.DB HiTek CEO Choi Chang-sik, who has led the company since 2012, is arguing for a new 300mm wafer fact

Smartphone application processor (AP) sales grew 6% year over year to US$4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2020, Strategy Analytics said.This is despite the research firm saying earlier in April that smartphone shipment fell 16.9% year over year in the quarter.Average sales prices of APs rose due

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in on Thursday said the government will expand its support for localizing the production of high-tech materials, components and equipment in his visit to SK Hynix’s chip plant at Icheon, Gyeonggi Province.Moon said Japan’s “unjust trade restrictions” have continued o

Power semiconductor market will be worth US$1 billion next year, research firm Omdia said.Silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductor market projections will continue on the increase by more than 10% annually for the next decade and will pass US$5 billion by 2029, the firm sa

The son and heir of South Korean semiconductor materials maker Soulbrain has died in an automobile accident last month, TheElec has learned.Seok-Ho Chung, born in 1986, was the son of chairman and founder Jiwan Chung. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University before joining Soulbrain. He worke

Contract prices of DDR4 8Gb for PCs has stabilized in June after five months of continuous rise, according to data from DRAMeXchange on Tuesday.The DRAM was contact priced at $3.31 as of end of June, same as its price at the end of May.DRAM aimed at PCs and notebooks saw a short-term increase earlie