South Korea’s export of semiconductors climbed for the fifth consecutive month as of March.Total semiconductor exports hit US$11.69 billion in March, an increase of 33.9% from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Science and ICT.Memory chips accounted for US$7.45 billion, with system chips a

“That promise has been kept,” Li Mei, the chairperson of Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission, told the parliament in December of last year.They were responding to a question on whether US chip giant Qualcomm kept its promise to invest $700 million in the country.The company, known for its Snapdragon proc

Fab equipment maker Tokyo Electron’s cryo etching equipment is using hydrogen fluoride (HF).Etching is done to NAND to form the channel holes previously used carbon fluoride (CF).But with ultra-low temperature etching required for advanced NANDs (Gen 10 and up), the use of CF is expected to dramatic

Samsung has won Nvidia as a customer for 2.5D packaging, TheElec has learned.The company’s Advanced Package (AVP) team will be providing the interpose and I-Cube, its 2.5D package to the GPU maker, sources said.The high bandwidth memory (HBM) and the GPU wafer production will be handled by other com

SK Hynix said on Thursday that it will spend US$3.87 billion to build a chip packaging plant in Indiana state in the US.The plant will provide packaging services for memory chips aimed at AI applications.It will start shipping next-generation high bandwidth memory (HBM) in 2028.

AI chip firm Sapeon will collaborate with design house Alphawave Semi to develop its Gen 3 AI chip, X430, TheElec has learned.Sapeon signed a 59.6 billion won deal with the design house in February for the design service.X430, which will launch in 2026, will be made with TSMC’s 5-nanometer (nm) node

Display wet equipment maker FNS Tech is aiming to supply etching equipment for glass substrates aimed at chip packages, TheElec has learned.It is hoping to supply the kits to SKC Absolics, which is developing glass chip packages and building a dedicated factory in the state of Georgia in the US.FNS

Samsung said on Wednesday that it has manufactured a sample of a 16-stack high bandwidth memory (HBM).During a local conference hosted by The Korean Microelectronics and Packaging Society, Samsung vice president Kim Dae-woo said the tech giant manufactured the chip with hybrid bonding around a week

Samsung is forming a team of around 400 employees to work on high bandwidth memory (HBM) alone, TheElec has learned.Last month, TheElec reported that the South Korean company planning to convert its task force for HBM into a permanent office.The new HBM development team will be under the direct supe

Chip fabless firm Fadu made repeated apologies during its annual shareholder’s meeting amid lackluster earnings and the drop in share prices.The company’s share prices opened at 31,000 won per share when it went public last year but as of Thursday, its shares were trading at 16,280 won per share, a

South Korean memory chip company SK Hynix expects customer demand for customized high bandwidth memory (HBM) to become stronger going forward.Demand from customers for optimization of these memory chips, which are paired with AI processors, will lead them to become less of a commodity like other mem

Chip giants TSMC and Intel are expected to complete their 2-nanometer (nm) or under fabs within the year, industry association SEMI said.The Taiwanese chip giant is expected to secure a capacity of 67,500 8-inch wafers per month, while its US counterpart is expected to secure 202,500.Intel is expect

US chip giant Micron said on Wednesday that its high bandwidth memory (HBM) production capacity this year has already been sold out.Enough orders have also been placed for its capacity next year to be almost filled, the company said during its conference call for its December-February quarter, its f

Samsung is aiming to become the world’s largest semiconductor company within two to three years, the company co-CEO said on Wednesday.Samsung co-CEO Kyung Kye-hyun, who heads the company’s Device Solution (DS) division, its chip division, said during Samsung’s annual shareholders’ meeting the compan

South Korea’s export of computer chips increased four months in a row as of February.For February, semiconductor exports surged 62.9% from a year earlier to US$9.96 billion, data from the Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea’s tech ministry, showed.Memory chips accounted for US$6.08 billion, a j

TEMC and Matheson Gas Products Korea are in the middle of a legal dispute over alleged trade secret theft that could have huge consequences for their respective bottom lines.Late last year, South Korean prosecutors indicted executives of TEMC over allegedly leaking trade secrets held by Metheson.The

Fab equipment maker APTC is planning to name an ex-SK Hynix executive as an inside director.Jong-Pil Im, the former head of procurement at SK Hynix, will be named as an inside director while the company will also change its name to VM, the company said in a letter to shareholders.Im started his care

SK Hynix saw a surge in customer deposits during the fourth quarter last year, the memory chip giant’s regulatory filings showed.The company said it received 57.5 billion won in advanced payment and 1.5855 trillion won in customer liabilities, or customer deposits where an entity receives advanced p

Samsung has recovered the operation rate of its fab in Xian, China to the 70% range, TheElec has learned.The fab is the South Korean tech giant’s only plant aboard that manufactures memory chips and accounts for 40% of its total NAND output.The operation rate of the fab at one time fell to 20% to 30

Samsung was planning to turn its task force for high bandwidth memory (HBM) into a permanent office under the chip division, TheElec has learned.The president of Samsung’s Memory Business, Lee Jung-bae, recently ordered the formation of such an office, sources said.If the task force is converted to