SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Siltron Co., a semiconductor material producer under South Korea’s SK Group, said Wednesday it will build a new wafer production plant amid the global semiconductor shortage. The company plans to spend nearly 1.05 trillion won (US$847.8 million) over the next three years to build a plant that can [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Siltron Co., a semiconductor material producer under South Korea’s SK Group, said Monday it has completed the acquisition of DuPont de Nemours Inc.’s wafer business. In September last year, SK Siltron signed an agreement to purchase DuPont’s silicon carbide (SiC) wafer unit for US$450 million to beef up [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Siltron Co., a semiconductor material producer under SK Group, said Tuesday it will acquire DuPont’s wafer business as part of efforts to beef up its advanced material business. SK Siltron said its board members approved a plan to purchase DuPont’s silicon carbide (SiC) wafer business for US$450 million. [...]
HUDSON, N.H. and HSINCHU, Taiwan, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — GTAT Corporation, d/b/a GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) and GlobalWafers Co., Ltd. (GWC) have entered into a long-term agreement whereby the expertise of both companies will combine to forge a new source of supply of silicon carbide wafers. GWC, already one of the world’s top producers [...]
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — SANAN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CO., LTD. (Sanan IC), a pure-play wafer foundry with its advanced compound semiconductor technology platform, today announced that it has achieved full process qualification for commercial release of its 6-inch silicon carbide (SiC) technology to add to its foundry services portfolio. Committed to providing advanced [...]
FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Mattson Technology, a supplier of wafer fabrication equipment, has achieved a significant milestone in its growth. Shipments of Mattson’s Dry Strip, Plasma Etch and Rapid Thermal Processing equipment have now become part of volume production fabs for all top ten manufacturers of integrated circuits. The top ten chipmakers [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, one of the world’s most tech-advanced countries, trumped its rivals in wafer capacity last year, market data showed Tuesday, reflecting its solid footing in the semiconductor business. The monthly share of Asia’s fourth-largest economy in terms of wafer capacity stood at 21.1 percent at the end of [...]