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Original caption: Chongqing plant temporarily suspends production of SK Hynix 40% of flash memory packaging and testing capacity is affected
Source: Core Intelligence
According to information released by the Leading Group Office for the Prevention and Control of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic in the Chongqing High-Tech Zone, a foreign employee of SK Hynix Semiconductor (Chongqing) company in Chongqing Microelectronic Park Xiyong was detected abroad after leaving the country for Chengdu on November 26. The nucleic acid is positive, initially judged as an asymptomatic infection.
The employee is reported to be Han Moumou, a Korean national, male, and an engineer from ASKA Hynix Semiconductor (Chongqing) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “SK Hynix Chongqing Factory”). At 8:00 p.m. on November 26, he took the company’s private car through Chengdu to Incheon, South Korea. On November 28, it detected positive for the nucleic acid of the novel coronavirus at the Incheon airport in South Korea. Initially it was considered to be asymptomatic, so I informed the company.
After receiving the report, Chongqing City and related districts immediately began emergency response and organized measures such as epidemiological investigations, on-site control, nucleic acid testing and elimination of epidemics.
Currently, the SK Hynix Chongqing factory where Han is working temporarily suspends production and implements completely closed management, isolating all employees and conducting overnight nucleic acid tests; Chongqing R&F Holiday Hotel, where Han lives, is temporarily closed and closed for management. All hotel employees AND all guests staying since November 25 will be tracked and nucleic acid testing will be done.
According to the data, the SK Hynix Chongqing plant was established on July 15, 2013, located in Chongqing Xiyong Microelectronics Park, and was wholly owned by SK APTECH LIMITED, a subsidiary of South Korea’s SK Group. The registered capital at that time was 150 million US dollars and then increased to 400 million US dollars in 2017. It is mainly engaged in semiconductor post-processing services such as probe testing, packaging, packaging testing, module assembly and semiconductor product module testing. At present, it mainly produces Nand Flash, a flash memory product suitable for mobile terminals, which is mainly used in mobile terminal devices such as smart phones, tablets and USB. According to the financial report, in 2019, there were 2,466 employees at SK Hynix Chongqing factory.
The Chongqing SK Hynix project will be built in two phases. The first phase of the NAND Flash memory chip packaging and test production line will invest US $ 300 million and cover an area of 500 acres. It will be officially operational in the second half of 2014.
In 2017, the first phase of the SK Hynix Chongqing plant achieved chip production of approximately 790 million chips, representing more than 30% of the global production capacity of the world’s leading semiconductor memory manufacturer. At present, the annual production capacity of the first phase of the project has been further increased to around 960 million chips.
In 2017, the company signed a $ 1 billion Phase II investment agreement with the Chongqing Municipal Government. The second phase of the project is the Chongqing SK Hynix chip packaging project, located in the Xiyong Comprehensive Consolidated Zone, alongside the first phase of the project. After the completion of the second phase of the project, the first phase of the project will be specifically tested and the second phase of the project will be specifically packaged. In July 2018, the second phase of SK Hynix Semiconductor officially began, which was completed and put into production in September 2019.
In April 2020, according to the official website of Xiyong Microelectronics Park, the second phase of the SK Hynix Chongqing plant, which was put into operation last year, officially launched the package, completing 66 million chip packages, an increase from 62.3% year-on-year and a production value of 3.778 billion yuan, an increase of 72% year-on-year. .
At present, the second phase production capacity of SK Hynix Chongqing plant has reached 100%, with new varieties of products, product specifications expanded from only encapsulating flash memory to memory and packaging of flash memory, process and product technology have been optimized and improved, and it is planned to reach 16 billion yuan for the whole year. Increase by more than 30%.
According to previous Chongqing Daily news, after the completion of the second phase of the SK hynix Chongqing plant, the comprehensive annual production of the second phase of the Chongqing SK hynix project will account for more than 40% of all SK hynix flash memory products, becoming the largest foreign package in the world. Test base.
This also means that the temporary closure of SK hynix’s Chongqing plant will directly affect 40% of SK hynix’s flash memory packaging and testing capacity. If the shutdown time is prolonged, it will affect global flash memory shipments. TrendForce data shows that SK Hynix’s share of the global flash memory market in the third quarter of this year was 11.3%.
However, given the speed of China’s current response to the detection of the new corona epidemic, all employees at the SK hynix Chongqing plant are expected to be able to complete the nucleic acid test within a day or two. If there are no accidents, production at the SK hynix Chongqing plant is expected to resume next week.
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