[Asia Economy Reporter Minji Lee] Luken Technologies, a semiconductor inspection component specialist company, announced that it is expected to record its highest-ever performance this year. This expectation is based on the anticipated increase in sales and profitability improvement due to the expansion of inspection component (M-POGO) sales and cost reduction effects.
Test sockets are key components in semiconductor post-process inspection with high added value, requiring small-lot, multi-product production because each must be individually designed according to the product's design, configuration, arrangement, and equipment form. The semiconductor post-process socket market size has shown an annual growth rate of over 4%, increasing from $1.14 billion in 2019 to $1.28 billion in 2021. Recently, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy included semiconductor process equipment and highly integrated semiconductor inspection micro sockets in the new support targets for the semiconductor sector.
A company official stated, “With the development of the M-POGO product, we are conducting technology development and mass production verification with leading semiconductor companies both overseas and domestically. Currently, we have customers in the United States, and we have completed additional company registration and specification consultations with the largest memory semiconductor company, with socket orders expected in February this year.”
Additionally, the evaluation of the M-POGO Probe Card (which inspects the electrical characteristics of chips in wafer state), being jointly developed with a domestic semiconductor company, is planned to be completed in the first half of the year, with mass production scheduled for the fourth quarter.
Meanwhile, Luken Technologies is pursuing an IPO in the first half of this year, aiming for a listing within the year.
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