SK Hynix has named its global sales and marketing president Jongwon Noh to jointly hold the new position of chief synergy officer of Solidigm, TheElec has learned.Its task force, which was created during the process of the acquisition of Intel’s NAND business unit had also become a permanent team ca

SK Hynix is diversifying its supply chain for tetrahydrofuran (THF), a material used in the capacitor process in DRAM production, TheElec has learned.The South Korean chip giant had asked its key electronic material suppliers whether they want to become a supplier of the material, sources said.SK Tr

Samsung and SK Hynix are diversifying there supply chain for coolants used in semiconductor production following 3M’s shutdown of its related factory in Belgium.Coolants are used in the etching process during wafer fabrication. They are spread through chillers to control the temperature during the p

Fab equipment maker FST had formed a subsidiary in the US in Delaware dedicated to after-sales services, TheElec has learned. The company is also planning to form another at Taylor, Texas in preparation for Samsung’s new fab that will be built in the city.FST specializes in chillers used in wafer fa

APACT said on Friday that it will acquire ATsemicon’s packaging business unit.The unit does semiconductor packaging and testing and APACT will take over the packaging part.ATsemicon’s customers include SK Hynix and other fabless chip firms.APACT recently built a second factory for packaging and is e

Fab equipment maker SEMCNS is aiming to win approval from Samsung for its ceramic space transformer (STF) used in CMOS image sensor (CIS) probe cards during testing.The company is quality testing the equipment to secure the approval by the first half of the year, sources said.Probe cards are used to

SK Hynix said on Wednesday that it recorded 12.15 trillion won in revenue and 2.85 trillion won in operating profit during the first quarter.Revenue jumped by 43% from a year ago, while operating profit increased 116% over the same time period.It is SK Hynix’s best performance for the first quarter

Chip and component reliability testing firm QRT was developing new chip testing equipment with the aim to make the business a major source of revenue by 2025, TheElec has learned.The company was aiming to sell its semiconductor soft error tester and 5G mmWave spectrum RF accelerated life tester, peo

ACM Research was planning to build a fab equipment factory in South Korea, TheElec has learned.The company recently opened a regional subsidiary called Korea ACM, which it wholly owns.ACM Research is a fab equipment maker that was founded in Silicon Valley in 1998 and listed on Nasdaq in 2017.The co

SK Hynix said on Tuesday that it has launched a new enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) that uses 128-layer NAND flashes.P5530 also uses controllers provided by the South Korean chip giant’s subsidiary Solidigm, which was formed in San Hose following the completion of the first stages of the acquisit

Dry etching equipment maker APTC was developing a 300mm oxide etching equipment with the aim to offer it for a demo text in 2023, TheElec has learned.Etching is a front-end process in wafer fabrication where parts of the wafer not needed after the circuit patterns are drawn are etched out.Oxide film

South Korean outsourced semiconductor assembly and testing (OSAT) companies saw their revenues increase by double-digits in 2021, their filings showed.OSAT companies handle packaging and testing of processed wafers. They are seeing demand for their services increase from the ongoing global chip shor

Fab scrubber and chiller firm GST is aiming to supply one of its chillers to a major Taiwanese chipmaker within the year.The South Korean kit maker has been demo testing the equipment with the potential customer since November of last year, sources said.GST could win the order sometime in the second

Samsung lost its patent lawsuit against memory module firm Netlist in the US.Netlist said on Thursday that the United States District Court for the Central District of California entered a judgment in favor of the firm against Samsung for material breaches of obligations under their joint developmen

Electronic material supplier LTC will acquire Mujin Electronics’ fab equipment business unit, TheElec has learned.A person familiar with the matter said the deal won’t be worth over 100 billion won.LTC will form a co-fund with an outside investor to pay the acquisition fee, they said.The company bea

Samsung was researching and developing a new material to use to make focus rings, TheElec has learned.Focus rings are commodities used in the etching process of wafer fabrication. It fixes the wafer in place to maintain the plasma density and prevents the sides of the wafer from contamination.In the

SK Hynix has significantly downsized its team that develops memory products for automobiles, TheElec has learned.According to sources, Daeyong Shim, vice president head of SK Hynix’s Automotive Business, was transferred to the Semiconductor Academy, a team dedicated to educating the company’s suppli

SK Hynix has recorded its highest annual revenue to date in 2021.The South Korean memory chip maker said it recorded 43 trillion won in revenue and 12.4 trillion won in operating income during the entire year.The revenue figure is its highest to date, beating its previous 2018 record of 40.4 trillio

Share prices of LG Energy Solution soared in its debut on the South Korean bourse on Thursday, making the company the second most valued company on KOSPI instantly.The South Korean battery maker was valued at 110 trillion won in its debut, putting it just behind Samsung Electronics’ valuation of 439

Samsung is planning to procure 50MP image sensors from SK Hynix for the cameras on Galaxy A23 5G, which will launch during the second half of the year, TheElec has learned.The Galaxy smartphone maker is planning to launch 4G LTE and 5G versions of Galaxy A23.Samsung is aiming to ship 17.1 million un