GCS Holdings, Inc. Signs Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Epistar
January 23, 2019 at 02:06 pm IST
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GCS Holdings, Inc. and Epistar have entered an agreement for strategic collaborations in which GCS will support Epistar and its subsidiaries the technologies needed to offer high-volume 6“ compound semiconductor foundry services to customers worldwide. Both companies will collaborate in several business areas and progress in stages going forward. GCS also plans to increase the investment in Unikorn in the future depending on the business needs. It is expected that this strategic partnership will combine the best of two companies and collectively offer competitive and needed capacity, technology and quality to the compound semiconductor industry to achieve the next level of scale and profitability.
GCS Holdings, Inc. is a Cayman Islands-based holding company of Global Communication Semiconductors, LLC (GCS LLC). The Company through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, markets, sells integrated circuits chips. It provides foundry services to integrated device manufacturers and fabless design houses, targeting wireless, power electronics, optoelectronics, and telecommunication markets. The GCS LLC provides pure-play foundry services for III-V compound semiconductor radio frequency integrated circuits, power electronics and optoelectronics (the foundry service business), as well as manufactures and markets compound semiconductor optical wafers and chips under its own brand (the component business). The GCS LLC's customers are primarily United State-based integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) and fabless design houses. The optoelectronic products from GCS LLC's component business are sold to distributors and electronic device manufacturers based in China and Taiwan.
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