no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . february 2009 united test and assembly centre type public traded as sgx u12 industry semiconductors founded 1997 headquarters singapore key people charles chen chih yuan chairman dr. john nelson ceo revenue s 569.9 million fy 2006 net income s 144.0 million fy 2006 website www.utacgroup.com united test and assembly center ltd abbreviation utac ; chinese ; pinyin li nh k zh is one of the largest providers of test and assembly services for a wide range of semiconductor devices including memory mixed signal rf and logic integrated circuits . founded in 1997 and commencing full operations in 1999 the company started out by acquiring the semiconductor test operations of fujitsu microelectronics asia pte. ltd. at the end of 2006 the company was ranked the fifth largest independent provider of semiconductor tests by gartner dataquest . 1 headquartered in singapore utac has manufacturing facilities in singapore shanghai china and taiwan with global sales offices located worldwide including the united states italy and japan . contents 1 significant milestones 2 main customers 3 notes 4 external links significant milestones edit in 2003 utac established its wholly owned shanghai operations in waigaoqiao a free trade zone in shanghai . it also formed an alliance with amkor technology inc. in china combining the strengths of both companies to create a powerful turnkey assembly and test supplier capable of supporting as well as integrated device manufacturers looking to service their end customers in the china market . this partnership was further enhanced in 2007 when both companies announced that they had entered into a multi year cross licensing agreement under which amkor would license its microleadframe patents to utac and utac would license its qfn patents to amkor . the agreement covers the license of intellectual property rights and transfer of associated packaging technologies . in 2005 utac completed the acquisition of ultratera corp. to become a leading test player in the world . in the same year the company announced several joint ventures with smic to build a test and assembly center in chengdu china 2 and with korea s nepes corp to build the first 12 inch wafer bumping facility in singapore . 3 in 2006 utac announced its plans to acquire thailand based ns electronics bangkok nseb for s 175 million after announcing plans to invest s 500 million into its singapore operations . 4 june 26 2007 proposed acquisition of utac by global a & t electronics a special purpose company formed by affinity equity partners and tpg capital . 5 main customers edit some of utac s customers include seagate a global hard disk drive manufacturer . qualcomm a wireless telecommunications technology provider . sandisk a manufacturer of flash memory . hynix a global memory semiconductor manufacturer . notes edit 1 . gartner jonathan hopfner . 2 eetimes.com 3 nepes corp. matthias chan . 4 channel news asia press release external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title utac group & oldid 584478563 categories companies listed on the singapore exchangeassembly and test semiconductor companieshidden categories orphaned articles from february 2009all orphaned articlesarticles containing chinese language text navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 december 2013 at 05 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view