441 news items tagged Korea
SK Hynix strikes 5-year deal with ASML for EUV equipment supply
Thursday 25 February 2021SK Hynix has signed a 5-year contract worth KRW4.75 trillion (US4.3 billion) with ASML to procure extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systems, local media reports in South Korea...
Korea memory sales to grow slightly in 1Q21, says Digitimes Research
Tuesday 9 February 2021Combined sales of memory products (mainly DRAM and NAND flash chips) by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are likely to inch up 0.5% sequentially in the first quarter of 2021, Digitimes...
VIS to disclose details about new acquisition in 1Q21
Tuesday 5 January 2021Eight-inch foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) is expected to announce details regarding a new acquisition later in the first quarter of 2021, according to market so...
Fierce competition for 5G subscribers undermine Korea telecom ARPU, says Digitimes Research
Thursday 31 December 2020South Korea's top-3 telecom carriers saw their wireless businesses' average revenues per user (ARPU) slip in the first three quarters of 2020 due to fierce competition for 5G subscribers,...
Development of 3nm process challenging TSMC, Samsung
Thursday 31 December 2020TSMC and Samsung Electronics have both encountered different but critical bottlenecks in the development of their respective 3nm process technologies, according to industry sources...
GlobalWafers to raise spot quotes for silicon wafers
Tuesday 29 December 2020GlobalWafers has run all its production lines for 12-, 8- and 6-inch silicon wafers at full capacity, according to company chairperson Doris Hsu. The silicon wafer supplier plans...
OLED panel suppliers to see major gains from iPhone next year, says report
Thursday 17 December 2020Amid optimism about iPhone shipments in 2021, Samsung Display and LG Display (LGD), the two major Korean manufacturers supplying OLED for Apple's smartphones, are expected to see...
Growth ahead for semiconductor equipment market
Tuesday 15 December 2020Global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers are projected to increase 16% compared to US$59.6 billion in 2019 and register a new industry...
Korea memory chip output value to decrease 9.5% in 4Q20, says Digitimes Research
Thursday 26 November 2020The 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 2020IC 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 2020SEMI 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 2020The 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 2020Taiwan-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 2020The 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 2020Global 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 2020Thin-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 2020As 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 2020US 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 2020The 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 2020Samsung 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 2020The 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 2020Semiconductor 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 2020Global semiconductor materials market revenue edged down 1.1% in 2019, according to SEMI.
NAND flash ASPs may tumble in 2H20
Thursday 26 March 2020The 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 2020Samsung 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...