Senior Chinese officials have met with Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong and asked for increased collaboration, in words that can be interpreted as pressuring Samsung for most investments.Hu Heping, Communist Party Secretary of Shaanxi Province, told Lee in a meeting Monday for strength

Huawei Technologies will be installing a Cloud and AI Business Group in Korea this year in a bid to penetrate the Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) server market currently dominated by NVidia.The business group may later on be spun off for further growth, according to industry sources on April 3.Huawei

It looks like China’s TCL is once again following close on South Korea’s heel, this time in the vertical TV business.On Aug. 16, TCL held an event marking the launch of its first vertical TV, the XESS in China’s Guangdong Province. Citing data from Penguin Think Tank, the TCL chief executive said th

SK hynix, the world’s No.2 memory chipmaker, is looking to acquire Intel’s memory chip production facility in China’s Dalian, according to Chinese media reports.On July 11, Chinese semiconductor media Ji Wei Wang (集微网) said that SK Hynix is in talks with Intel for acquiring the Intel Fab 68, a 3D Na

China is working relentlessly to fly solo in the memory chip market in the face of intensifying sanctions from the US, according to industry sources and media reports.The world’s No.2 economy has been spearheading the so-called DRAM project to become independent in chip-making. Currently, China is b

Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group – also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry – has issued a statement vehemently denying any intention to pull its production facilities out of China.“None of the reports speculating our withdrawal from China are true,” said the statement released on June 17. “T

DB HITEK has successfully commercialized the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) foundry process.DB HIitek announced on July 7 that it would acquire a MEMS-based microphone clients and start mass production this year. Although it did not disclose names of specific clients, it is said that it has e

A local news source Xin Zhi Xun (芯智讯) recently reported that Unisoc, a core affiliate of the Ziguang Group, has launched the communication chip Chuntong (IVY) 2651, which supports the 'BeiDou No. 3 system', a global service of 'China' GPS BeiDou. Chuntong 2651 is a 4-in-1 combo communication chip th

Naura (北方华创, Beifanghuaqiang), a listed company in China 's Shenzhen Stock Exchange, announced on April 4 that it will build a semiconductor equipment production plant with an annual production capacity of more than 150 units, boosting the capital investment about 350 billion won (2.1 billion yuan).

Naura (北方华创, Beifanghuaqiang), a listed company in China 's Shenzhen Stock Exchange, announced on April 4 that it will build a semiconductor equipment production plant with an annual production capacity of more than 150 units, boosting the capital investment about 350 billion won (2.1 billion yuan).

China's FPGA maker Gowin, founded in 2014, announced that the cumulative shipments of programmable logic devices (FPGAs) has exceeded 10,000 units. Last year's shipments were 8 million, 8 times the total of one million shipped in 2017.The major management including CEO Joo Jinghui (朱璟辉) and CTO Song

China's power and analog semiconductor foundry maker CSMC has announced on the 2nd that its mass production of 600V Half Bridge High Voltage Gate Driver IC (HVIC) has reached more than 1,000 units a month and 10,000 units in total.China's first half-bridge HIVC process mass production company, CSMC,

The government of Xian city of Shanxi province announced that it signed 10 project agreements with 10 semiconductor companies including Loongson Zhongkou (Loongson), AMEC, and Silan (士兰 微) at the 2018 Xian Integrated Circuit Industry Forum held on February 22. The project details have not been discl

On the 11th, Chinese display maker Tianma announced through the investor exchange platform of Shenzhen Stock Exchange that it has been producing a "hole display" and that "Consumer products will be released soon." It replied to the question of investors asking for facts and supply with "In talks of

On November 26, a Chinese Business Management Paper has reported that a bicycle-sharing company, Hello Bike, filed a complaint with LG Chemical's Nanjing subsidiary to the Shanghai Municipal Intermediate People's Court. Hello Bike is one of the three largest bike sharing companies in China, along wi

The Kunming Metal Research Institute in Yunnan, China, has developed a precious metal sputtering target and delivered it to prominent semiconductor companies in the United States, the Yunnan Provincial Government said recently. "The production of precious metal sputtering targets has been a technolo

The groundbreaking ceremony for China’s first ‘200mm wafer semiconductor equipment verification line’ was held in Changsha High-tech Zone, Changsha, Hunan Province, on November 28th. The project was undertaken by the research institute affiliated with the China Electronics Technology Association (CE

During the launch event of new products on November 27th, Guizhou Huaxintong announced the mass production launch of StarDragon 4800, the processor chipset for data center servers. Taking place in the China National Convention Center in Beijing, the event was attended by top officials of China and p

Chinese memory controller manufacturer Jiangsu Huacun developed China’s first eMMC controller in just one year since its establishment in Sep last year. Announcement was made during Independent Memory R&D Technology Exchange Summit 2018 held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province on 21 Nov.Reported by IM2Make

ISAC, a South Korean small and medium semi-conductor equipment manufacturer, has joined a project aiming at localizing Atom Layer Deposition (ALD) equipment from a Chinese partner. A conference on the subject matter held in Hilton Hotel Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China on February 16 was made pub