Amkor Technology [Amkor]

Amkor Technology(Nasdaq: AMKR) was founded in 1968 by James J. Kim, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. As a one of the world’s largest providers of advanced semiconductor assembly and test services, it has grown to more than 21,000 employees worldwide and also has production centers in strategic locations throughout Asia.Amkor is a strategic contract manufacturing resource for many of the world's leading semiconductor companies and has a management team that represents some of the most experienced semiconductor professionals and visionaries in the industry.

Amkor provids customers with the industry's broadest array of package design,assembly and test solutions.Amkor's operational base encompasses more than 5 million square feet of manufacturing facilities, product development centers, and sales & support offices located in key electronics manufacturing regions in Asia, Europe and the United States.Integrated circuits increase in speed and complexity, so the right semiconductor packaging becomes important for optimal system performance. Amkor can provide the broadest range of package formats and sizes, from traditional, "off-the-shelf" leadframe configurations to leading-edge chip scale, flip chip and system-in-package solutions incorporating highly customized designs which makes Amkor to be a single source for many customers' requirements of total IC packaging.
 
Meanwhile, Amkor also provides a complete array of test engineering services for RF, mixed signal, logic and memory devices, from test program development to full product characterization. It is now an important provider of RF test services aw well as the world leader in Strip Test, an innovative, highly parallel test solution that offers customers low cost, faster index time and improved test yields.To guarantee the quality to customer,Amkor takes many ways to make the tests.The AWW (Amkor World Wide) QOS (Quality Operating System),SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) and specifications are used to provide comprehensive operating guidelines. All these ways or systems which are also internationally accepted standards have been modeled to industry.And Amkor has received certification to QS-9000, ISO-9001, ISO-9002, ISO-14001, ISO-14000, IECQ, PQA, TS-16949, DSCC & DESC (Defense Electronics Supply Center) MIL-STD-38535 QML, Level Q (Plastics) and Level S (Hermetics), and SONY Green Partner Certifications.