In order to support future business growth, East High Tech, a South Korean wafer foundry, is increasing its research and development efforts in the fields of silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors. The recent investment aims to enhance its manufacturing capacity for 8-inch wafers.

Due to the slow market recovery, the operation of the 8-inch wafer factory in this generation of factories is expected to be affected, while the issue of switching to the operation of the 12-inch wafer factory still exists. In this situation, the future development of Eastern High Tech will focus on new power semiconductors such as GaN and SiC.

Compared with silicon (Si) semiconductors, silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) based power semiconductors have faster power conversion efficiency and excellent durability.

Eastern High Tech was established in 1997, also known as DB HiTek. Semiconductor products such as microcontroller units (MCU), display driver chips (DDI), and image sensors (CIS) designed for global fabless customers. Especially in the production of Si DDI, MCU, CIS.

Around May this year, the company successfully spun off its chip design department and became a pure wafer foundry. DB Global Chip plans to expand its factory free business from liquid crystal display (LCD) DDI to organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and Mini LED DDI, headquartered in Banqiao, Gyeonggi do. DB HITECH will become a pure semiconductor commissioned production (OEM) enterprise.

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