Falling prey to downward spirals in the prices of memory chips, SK Hynix saw its 1st quarter operating profits more than halved quarter-on-quarter.The world’s second largest memory chip maker said today that it logged an operating profit of 1.37 trillion won, 69% down from a quarter ago, in the firs

2019 CAPEX Plan for Li-ion Battery Cell Production

As EV, or electric vehicle market is rapidly scaling up across the globe, so is EV secondary battery market. To keep up, Korean Li-ion secondary battery makers and their ecosystem partners are bracing themselves to up their capital investments to build up more of capacity. As a result, the Li-ion se

Let's take a peek into how LG's 65-inch rollable TV works

LG’s rollable TVs come into the spotlight. The consumer electronics titan unveiled a commercial version of 65-inch rollable OLED TV lines at CES 2019, wowing global IT industry with their sleek, paper-like thin, and rollable form factor as well as crystal –crispy picture quality. Due out sometime in

Samsung Electronics has staked out RDL interposer and fan-out system-in-package technologies (FoSiP) as a next generation of cash cows for its foundry business. Samsung’s focus on the new, novel cutting-edge packaging technologies is to appeal to its foundry customers, as the two packaging technolog

The semiconductor industry is undergoing rapid paradigm shift, seeing AI rapidly emerging as a new growth driver for semiconductor chips. Especially, demand for AI chips will rapidly grow to reach US$55 billion by 2022, according to SEMICO, as they will serve as brains of a wide range of devices fro

Week demand, price falls shrink SK Hynix's 4th quarter profits by 1/3

SK Hynix falls prey on sluggish demand for memory chips in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 ended on Dec. 31, 2018, suffering from double drops both in the operating profits and revenues. The world’s second largest memory chip maker today reported a 32% quarter-on-quarter drop in the 4th quarter op

Samsung's 20MP image sensor chip comes in a 1/3.4 inch footprint

Samsung Electronics has sampled a 1/3.4 inch footprint-size ultra-tiny 20MP CMOS image sensor chip that incorporates 20 million microscopically-patterned pixels of 0.8 micrometer. Trademarked as ISOCELL Slim 3T2, the 20MP CMOS image sensor chip come in an ultra-tiny silicon footprint of 1/3.4 inches

Rudolph Technologies, Inc. has received orders for over US$15 million of legacy and new process control systems from a memory manufacturer based in Asia. The systems will be used by the top-tier memory chip maker, as the chip maker is rapidly shifting from wire-bonding to advanced packaging architec

Taiwanese foundry chip maker TSMC reported a better-than-expected fourth quarter financial results, chalking up 4.4% gain year-on-year in the consolidated revenue in the fourth quarter ended on Dec. 31, 2018. The fourth quarter revenue was 11.3% up quarter-on-quarter. The breakdown of the revenues b

Detailed specs on Galaxy S10 smart phone series come to surface, highlighting the 5G communication capability as its main, compelling feature.According to recent reports that were leaked out of the three Korean mobile carriers’ documents, the Galaxy S10 series of smart phone models come in 4 differe

Propelled by booming demand from cryptocurrency market, China’s pure-play foundry service market jerked up by 41% from a year ago to hit US$10.6 billion in sales, according to U.S. market reserch firm IC Insights. That sales volume accounted for 19% of the global foundry market, suggesting that Chin

NXP Semiconductors and Kalray join hands to develop an intelligent, highly parallel automotive SoC platform for level 2 and 3 autonomous cars. The two chip makers said at CES 2019 trade show that they have signed a strategic alliance to jointly address strong market requirements for automotive-grade

Samsung Electronics has allied with its longtime rival Apple Inc. to give its smart TV users more choices of entertainment contents- a move to keep them more loyal to Samsung brand. The two rivalries in global smart phone markets said on Jan. 7 that they have teamed up to make each of their key prod

Samsung Electronics scores its first design win in the years-long attempt to supply automotive-grade SoC chips, laying the foundation for its foray into automotive chip market. The world’s second largest semiconductor chip maker said that it has signed a deal with Audi to supply Exynos Auto V9 SoC c

LCD panel maker Truly Semiconductors’ Gen 5 LCD fabrication facility in Meishan, Sichuan, China went on line on Dec. 29, 2018. Touted as the first hi-end module type fabrication line, the Gen 5 will have started to produce the first sample products on Dec 31. 3. About 12.5 yuan has been poured into

BOE of China made a decision to invest 46.5 billion yuan (approximately 7.56 trillion won)) in the build-up of a 6th generation of OLED fabrication facility to produce small-and medium-sized OLED panels. Named as ‘B15’, the 6th generation facility line is the fourth of its OLED production constellat

In a desperate need for new streams of revenues, a couple of Korea fabless chip makers are turning to silicon carbide, or SiC-based power chips for their future. So are raw material and equipment makers, joining in to expand the ecosystem for rugged application markets like cars and telecommunicatio

Korea's IC design houses are on the verge of debacles, as they lack in manpower and scale. Much of what they suffered is blamed on Samsung Electronics' insular policy of ‘’doing everything in-house”. The world's 4th largest foundry chip maker, Samsung Foundry has been a linchpin of the c

The leading provider of illumination products for 3D sensing, TriLumina, will unveil new solutions for autonomous vehicle and 3D sensing markets at the '2019 Consumer Electronics Show(CES) 2019' in Las Vegas, Nevada, held January 8-11.TriLumina is going to have a suite in the Westgate Hotel

The Munich-based chemical group Wacker is increasing its global production capacities for silicone rubber. With expansion measures at several sites, WACKER plans to gradually raise its capacities by a total of 40,000 metric tons per year by 2021.Approximately 100 million euro has been earmarked for