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Kingston to invest in chip packaging and testing company


Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Kingston Technology may invest in packaging and testing house Orient Semiconductor Electronics through a private placement in order to strengthen their strategic partnership.

Kingston, whose monthly shipments of memory cards and flash drives have reached 10 million units, has recently added OSE as one of its back-end service providers after memory module maker's chief packaging and testing partner Powertech Technology Inc (PTI) shifted part of its capacity to handle orders from IM Flash, the sources said.

While OSE is seeking an investment of NT$2.5 billion (US$75.46 million) through private placement, the possible investment from Kingston will involve a promise that the memory module maker will remain an OSE investor for three years, the sources claimed.

OSE's currently capacity for memory card packaging and testing amounts to 7-9 million units a month, just second to Siliconware Precision Industry (SPIL), who has a monthly capacity of over 10 million units for memory cards, the sources said.

Kingston is the first international client for OSE, who in the past chiefly served local memory module makers and its own subsidiary ATP, the sources said.

With Kingston's orders, OSE, which has been losing money since 2001, stands a chance of turning around this year, the sources commented.

By: DocMemory
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