Amkor Technology, Inc. is a
semiconductor
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product packaging and test services provider. The company has been headquartered in
Arizona
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, since 2005, when it was moved from
West Chester,
Pennsylvania
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, also in the
United States
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. The company's Arizona headquarters was originally in
Chandler, then later moved to
Tempe. The company was founded in 1968 and, , has approximately 31,000 employees worldwide and a reported $7.1 billion in sales.
With factories in
China
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,
Japan
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,
Korea
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,
Malaysia
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,
Philippines
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,
Portugal
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,
Taiwan
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and
Vietnam
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, Amkor is a major player in the semiconductor industry. It designs, packages and tests
integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a set of electronic circuits, consisting of various electronic components (such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors) and their interconnections. These components a ...
s (ICs) for chip manufacturers.
Etymology
Amkor self-publishes that the name "Amkor" is a
portmanteau
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America
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" and "
Korea
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".
History
Amkor's origins can be traced back to ANAM Industries, a business in
Seoul
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dealing with imported Japanese goods, including
bicycle
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s, and founded by Hyang-Soo Kim in 1935. In March 1968, ANAM Industries underwent a transformation into ANAM Industrial Co. Ltd., becoming
South Korea
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's first semiconductor business. One month later, his son
Joo-Jin (James) Kim founded Amkor Electronics, Inc. and inaugurated its sales office in
Philadelphia
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. Its semiconductor production and export began in 1970. In 1998, Amkor began publicly trading on
Nasdaq
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.
In 2000, Amkor acquired
Integra Technologies, an Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly And Test (OSAT) provider in United States. In 2005, Amkor spun off Integra Technologies.
In February 2016, Amkor fully acquired J-Devices Corp, the largest Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly And Test (OSAT) provider in Japan.
In June 2017, Amkor Technology was recognized as Supplier of the Year for 2016 by
Qualcomm Technologies for a second consecutive year.
Amkor Technology has competitiveness for chip assembly by thermal compression as well as wafer level packaging. In September 2018, Amkor Technology opened a manufacturing and test plant at Longtan Science Park in Taiwan.
In 2019, Amkor Technology was ranked 2nd in overall revenue in the OSAT (Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test) market.
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ASE Technology – $11.87 Billion
* Amkor Technology – $7.1 Billion
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JCET – $3.97 Billion
* SPIL – $2.79 Billion
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Powertech Technology
Powertech Technology Inc. (PTI; ; 6239. TW) is a Taiwanese semiconductor assembly, packaging and testing company.
In 2010 the company entered a strategic alliance with Japan's Elpida Memory and Taiwan's chip foundry United Microelectronics Corpor ...
– $2.17 Billion
A $2 billion factory for advanced packaging of chips from
TSMC
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC or Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is one of the world's most valuable semiconductor companies, the world' ...
in
Arizona
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was announced in November 2023.
Products
Amkors designs, packages and tests semiconductors for other companies. The company's offers include RF-antenna designs incorporated directly into or onto a chip,
CMOS
Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS, pronounced "sea-moss
", , ) is a type of MOSFET, metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) semiconductor device fabrication, fabrication process that uses complementary an ...
imaging sensors or
flip chip
Flip chip, also known as controlled collapse chip connection or its abbreviation, C4, is a method for interconnecting dies such as semiconductor devices, IC chips, integrated passive devices and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), to exter ...
packaging with
copper pillars bumps. Amkor also offers
wire bonding
Wire bonding is a method of making interconnections between an integrated circuit (IC) or other semiconductor device and its packaging during semiconductor device fabrication. Wire bonding can also be used to connect an IC to other electronics ...
of semiconductors to packages as well as a technology to prevent edge gaps and cracks on semiconductor packaging called "Edge Protection".
See also
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Semiconductor industry
The semiconductor industry is the aggregate of companies engaged in the design and fabrication of semiconductors and semiconductor devices, such as transistors and integrated circuits. Its roots can be traced to the invention of the transistor ...
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Integrated circuit packaging
Integrated circuit packaging is the final stage of fabrication (semiconductor), semiconductor device fabrication, in which the die (integrated circuit), die is encapsulated in a supporting case that prevents physical damage and corrosion. The ...
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Wafer-level packaging
Wafer-level packaging (WLP) is a process in integrated circuit manufacturing where packaging components are attached to an integrated circuit (IC) ''before'' the wafer – on which the IC is fabricated – is diced. In WLP, the top and bottom ...
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System in a package
A system in a package (SiP) or system-in-package is a number of integrated circuits (ICs) enclosed in one chip carrier package or encompassing an IC package substrate that may include passive components and perform the functions of an entire sys ...
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