433 news items tagged Korea
Korea memory chip output value to decrease 9.5% in 4Q20, says Digitimes Research
Thursday 26 November 2020
The combined memory output value of South Korean vendors Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are expected to register a sequential decrease of 9.5% in fourth-quarter 2020 after falling...
Wafer capacity by feature size shows strongest growth at sub-10nm
Wednesday 18 November 2020
IC capacity for leading-edge (sub-10nm) processes is expected to grow and become the largest portion of monthly installed capacity across the industry beginning in 2024, according...
SEMI expects 300mm fab spending to boom through 2023
Wednesday 4 November 2020
SEMI has forecast that 300mm fab investments will grow by 13% in 2020 to eclipse the previous record high set in 2018 and log another banner year for the semiconductor industry in...
NOR flash likely to be in short supply in 2021, says Macronix chairman
Tuesday 27 October 2020
The global supply of NOR flash memory will fall short of demand in 2021 if trade tensions between the US and China persist, according to Macronix International chairman Miin Wu.
IntelliEPI, IVWorks team up to develop GaN epi wafers
Wednesday 19 August 2020
Taiwan-based Intelligent Epitaxy Technology (IntelliEPI) has teamed up with IVWorks of South Korea to jointly develop and market GaN epi wafers based on molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)...
Korea memory chip output value up in 2Q20
Tuesday 18 August 2020
The output value of South Korea's memory chip industry surged 22.1% on year and 13.9% sequentially in the second quarter of 2020, when a coronavirus-induced slowdown in smartphone...
Chip manufacturing equipment spending to hit record high in 2021, says SEMI
Wednesday 22 July 2020
Global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers are projected to increase 6% to US$63.2 billion in 2020 compared to US$59.6 billion in 2019,...
East Tender sees major players begin testing filters for 6G
Thursday 2 July 2020
Thin-film optical filter maker East Tender Optoelectronics has seen clients in Japan, China and the US begin testing optical filter samples for 6G communication, as optical filers...
Taiwan edges South Korea as largest base for IC wafer capacity, says IC Insights
Monday 29 June 2020
As of December 2019, Taiwan led the world in wafer capacity with about 22% of worldwide capacity installed in the country, according to IC Insights. Taiwan surpassed South Korea in...
Raising IC self-sufficiency increasingly difficult for China
Wednesday 27 May 2020
US vendors remain dominant players in the global front-end semiconductor equipment market segment, which will be a critical factor blocking China's ambition of raising self-sufficiency...
Glass substrate landscape changing in line with reductions in Korea LCD fabs
Tuesday 26 May 2020
The global landscape for the supply of display glass substrates is changing along with the moves by Samsung Display and LG Display to gradually withdraw from the LCD panel market.
Samsung expands foundry capacity with new EUV production line in Korea
Thursday 21 May 2020
Samsung Electronics has announced plans to boost its foundry capacity at the company's new production line in Pyeongtaek, Korea to meet growing demand for cutting-edge extreme ultraviolet...
Korea memory chip output value up slightly in 1Q20, says Digitimes Research
Wednesday 20 May 2020
The output value of South Korea's memory chip industry grew about 1% sequentially in the first quarter of 2020, thanks mainly to a ramp-up in demand arising from the stay-at-home...
Global semiconductor equipment sales drop 7% in 2019, SEMI says
Wednesday 15 April 2020
Semiconductor equipment manufacturers worldwide logged sales of US$59.8 billion in 2019, a 7% drop from the all-time high of US$64.5 billion in 2018, according to SEMI.
Global semiconductor materials market slips 1% in 2019, says SEMI
Wednesday 1 April 2020
Global semiconductor materials market revenue edged down 1.1% in 2019, according to SEMI.
NAND flash ASPs may tumble in 2H20
Thursday 26 March 2020
The spread of the coronavirus pandemic has dragged down considerably shipments for most end products in the first quarter of 2020, according to DRAMeXchange, which cut its NAND flash...
Samsung announces EUV DRAM
Wednesday 25 March 2020
Samsung Electronics has shipped one million 10nm-class (D1x) DDR4 DRAM modules based on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology, according to the company. The new EUV-based DRAM modules...
Samsung begins mass production of 512GB eUFS memory for smartphones
Thursday 19 March 2020
Samsung Electronics has announced mass production of what the company claims is the fastest storage for flagship smartphones.
Samsung foundry forum postponed
Tuesday 17 March 2020
Due to growing concerns around the coronavirus, the Samsung Foundry Forum 2020 has been postponed, according to Samsung Electronics. The event was originally scheduled for May 20...
Korean memory industry output value to slip in 1Q20, says Digitimes Research
Monday 9 March 2020
The output value of South Korea's memory chip industry is expected to drop by a slight 2.7% sequentially in the first quarter of 2020, according to Digitimes Research.
Coronavirus outbreak in Japan, South Korea may impact supply of solar cell materials
Wednesday 4 March 2020
China- and Taiwan-based solar cell makers are concerned that the continued increase in coronavirus infection cases in Japan and South Korea is likely to affect supply of key materials...
Highlights of the day: Coronavirus may affect IT supply outside of China
Tuesday 3 March 2020
With the coronavirus starting to widely spread in many countries outside of China, the semiconductor industry has...
Uncertainty grows over global memory chip supply
Tuesday 25 February 2020
The rapid spread of coronavirus in Korea has raised increasing concerns about global supply of memory chips in 2020 as Korean makers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, account for...
International car makers production in China hit by coronavirus outbreak, says Digitimes Research
Monday 24 February 2020
Several international automobile manufacturers' production at joint ventures in China has been impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, with General Motors, Volkswagen and Honda Motor...
Samsung begins mass production at new EUV manufacturing line
Monday 24 February 2020
Samsung Electronics has announced that its new cutting-edge semiconductor fabrication line in Hwaseong, Korea has begun mass production.
