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

Tongfu Microelecronics of China has been flexing its engineering muscle to the extent that it can live up to its ambition to join the who’s who lists of global top-tier packaging companies. The efforts culminated in its successful packaging implementation of microprocessor chip maker AMD’s 7nm circu

Imaginaton Technologies, a supplier of semiconductor intellectual property (IP), newly appoints Dr. Ron Black as new Chief Executive Officer.Dr. Black is a seasoned figure in the semiconductor and technology industry, having served as CEO of Rambus and CEO of UPEK and Wavecom over his 25-year job ca

LG Group, as the big conglomerate is called, sets out to make a big foray into a cryptocurrency-based mobile wallet payment system market. Its SI or system integrator subsidiary LG CNS joined hands with KB Kookmin Bank to begin a fraternity community-based pilot project for the cryptocurrency-denomi

The global semiconductor equipment market will get entrapped in a temporary hiccup in 2019, as chip makers will cut back, or freeze their capital spending to adjust their chip inventories or recalibrate their fabrication capacity, but in 2020 will skyrocket back to an all-time high, SEMI forecasts.

AI machine learning is now being widely used with machines to analyze repetitive jobs and workplace conditions to figure out patterns for the most optimal operation and then recalibrate their operations to that effect, continuously self-learning itself to upgrade its algorithm. A recent academic stu

Seoul (2018/12/04)- Have you ridden KTX high-speed train from Seoul to Gangreung City, a host city of PyeongChang Winter Olympics to watch a 500 meter women’s speed skating race held it Gangreung Ice Skating Stadium during the Olympic Games period? Once you have gotten on board, you might be excited

(iTers News)- AI or machine learning technology is all about how to train or educate machines to learn knowledge on their own rights, trying to simulate the way that human brain works.A little-known Korean company has recently fielded out a sort of NPU, or neuron processing unit or NPU chip in what