LG Innotek said on July 27 it posted second-quarter revenue of 55.27 trillion won and operating profit of 245.8 billion won. Revenue rose 40.5 percent and operating profit climbed 2,057 percent from a year earlier. Revenue was a record for a second quarter, and first-half revenue topped 100 trillion won for the first time. The company cited steady demand for mobile camera modules and strong supply of high value-added semiconductor substrates.

Applied Materials unveiled six new semiconductor manufacturing tools spanning advanced packaging and DRAM processes, the company said on Sunday. It said AI computing faces a “memory wall” as bandwidth and capacity lag growing model sizes and data throughput, driving demand for high-bandwidth memory and 3D stacking. The lineup includes CMP, electrochemical deposition and PECVD systems, two e-beam metrology tools, and an upgraded epitaxy system for DRAM peripheral transistors.