Gigaphoton EUV Semiconductor Lithography Business Takes Off In Korea
Gigaphoton Inc., a large lithography light source
manufacturer, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Gigaphoton Korea
Inc. started business operation on May 1st 2012.
Through Gigaphoton Korea Inc., the company intends to aggressively promote new business opportunities with Korean device manufacturers as its potential customers and further reinforce its local technical support system for existing customers of Gigaphoton DUV laser for semiconductor lithography systems in Korea.
Gigaphoton has operated its excimer laser business
through USHIO KOREA INC., a wholly owned subsidiary of USHIO INC., as its sales
representative. However, Gigaphoton became a wholly owned subsidiary
of Komatsu after Komatsu purchased the 50% of Gigaphoton shares owned by USHIO
INC. in May 2011. Gigaphoton then started taking over its business in Korea
from USHIO INC.
Continuing this process, Gigaphoton founded its wholly owned Korean subsidiary last August and proceeded with business transfer. With completion of the business transfer, Gigaphoton Korea Inc. is able to start business operation on May 1st, 2012.
Korea is one of the most important regions in the
silicon semiconductor industry.
The new subsidiary aims to develop best-in-class customer support activities fully backed up by the headquarters of its parent company, Gigaphoton Inc. What's more, the company believes that Gigaphoton Korea will play a very important role in establishing firm relationships with Korean semiconductor device manufacturers so as to accelerate its development of the EUV as the next-generation lithography light source.
Following the start of its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary in April 2008, Gigaphoton considers the launch of the Korean holding to be a "great advancement" to reinforce its global customer support system.
Since its founding in 2000, Gigaphoton has developed and delivered user-friendly, high-performance DUV laser light sources used by many semiconductor chipmakers in the Pan-Asian, the U.S. and Europe.
