Amkor Technology

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Amkor Technology, Inc.

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legal form Corporation
ISIN US0316521006
founding 1968
Seat Tempe , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Stephen Kelley, CEO
Number of employees 27,900
sales 4.316 billion US dollars (2018)
Branch Semiconductor technology
Website www.amkor.com
As of December 31, 2018

Amkor Technology, Inc. is a global electronics manufacturer specializing in the manufacture of chip housings and automatic test equipment for semiconductor technology. The company, which is listed on NASDAQ, ranks in the field of packaging , i. H. the packaging of so-called dies in chip housings, as the market leader.

In 2005 the company's headquarters were moved from West Chester , Pennsylvania, to Chandler , Arizona . He has been in Tempe since April 2015 . The main production facilities are in the People's Republic of China , Japan , South Korea , the Philippines , Singapore and Taiwan . In 2009, the company employed over 18,000 people worldwide and had annual sales of approximately 1.2 billion US dollars; in 2004 sales were 1.9 billion US dollars with just over 20,000 employees.

One of the company's innovations was the development of the Quad Flat No Leads Package (QFN) chip package under the trade name Micro Lead Frame (MLF) and the establishment of the JEDEC MO-220 standard . Because of its compact design, this chip housing is used, among other things, in mobile electronic devices such as cell phones .

Individual evidence

  1. Amkor Technologie 2016 Form 10-K Report , accessed March 19, 2017
  2. Amkor Technology, Inc. Investor Presentation at www.amkor.com , accessed December 5, 2019
  3. Amkor Technology , NASDAQ, accessed June 14, 2010
  4. Amkor Moves Corporate Headquarters to Chandler, Arizona , at www.amkor.com ( March 20, 2017 memento on the Internet Archive ), accessed March 19, 2017
  5. AMKOR TECHNOLOGY CELEBRATES THE OPENING OF ITS NEW CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS IN TEMPE, ARIZ. , at www.cem-az.com , accessed on March 19, 2017