Taiwan Optoelectronics issued a press release announcing that it will introduce strategic investment partner Daewoo Information to participate in private equity.
The news draft pointed out that on the 18th, the board of directors of Taiwan Lightmask decided to pass the private equity and general share plan, with the purchase price of NT$24.40 per share, and the planned issuance of NT$63,370,000 common shares, and the total amount of NT$1.546 billion. After the fundraising is completed, Guang Yangyao will hold 20% of the shares of Taiwan Lightmask, becoming the largest legal shareholder. Both parties will cooperate in the future to consolidate Taiwan’s key processes in the global semiconductor supply chain and strengthen global chip supply chain capabilities.
Taiwan hood is the first company in Taiwan to provide integrated circuit hood production services, and is also Taiwan's largest and fourth largest independent hood factory in the world. The mask technology plays an upstream role in the global semiconductor supply chain. It is a very small number of independent mask manufacturing capabilities. The technical difficulty and indispensableness have become the core key to chip accuracy and yield determination.
In recent years, the Daewoo Information Group has been actively deepening its participation in Taiwan's key industries, and has spanned diversified areas such as heavy electricity (Hezheng), capital (Anrui), semiconductor design (Yangzhi), manufacturing and access (full-level), and comprehensively expanding the group's strategic layout in mainstream industry links. In the future, we will create a "local independent supply chain" with our partners to enhance overall competitiveness and achieve multi-effects.
With the political tension in the ground and the global supply chain risks, the importance of mastering core technologies and key process capabilities is becoming increasingly prominent. Taiwan Lightmask said that in the future, as the semiconductor process develops more advanced and complex, we need to continue to invest in research and development and equipment upgrades to ensure the stable growth of production capacity and technology. This strategic cooperation is not only a ally in stock, it will carry out deeper resource integration and strategy connection, strengthen international layout and governance optimization, and manually create a global competitive process strength to ensure the independence and leading of Taiwan's key technologies.