Latest news, according to foreign media reports, semiconductor manufacturer Ansemy is located at the Fuchuan wafer factory in South Korea, and a power outage has occurred, causing the entire factory to shut down!
It is reported that the power outage lasted for about 20 minutes, during which most equipment stopped operating. At present, the factory is conducting testing after restarting the equipment. In addition, Ansemy is considering closing its Fuchuan factory for about two weeks starting around mid December.
Not long ago, Ansemy announced that the expansion project of its silicon carbide (SiC) manufacturing plant in Fuchuan, South Korea has been successfully completed. This expansion makes the factory one of the world's largest and most advanced SiC manufacturing factories. At full load production, this factory can produce over one million 200mm SiC wafers annually, meeting the rapidly growing demand for silicon carbide devices in the market.
Silicon carbide devices play a crucial role in electric vehicles (EVs), energy infrastructure, and high-power EV charging stations for power conversion. With the rise of electric vehicles and renewable energy, the market demand for these products has sharply increased, leading to an explosive growth in demand for SiC chips.
According to data, the Fuchuan factory was once a non memory production base for Samsung Electronics. In 1999, Samsung sold its power semiconductor division to Sendo Semiconductor in the United States, and the Fuchuan factory was also transferred as part of the transaction. Later, in 2016, Ansemy acquired Xiantong Semiconductor. Ansemy currently produces 6-inch SiC semiconductors on the S1 to S4 production lines at the Fuchuan factory, supplying major automakers such as Tesla, Hyundai, Kia, and BMW.
Ansemy has stated that the Fuchuan factory is the core asset of its SiC semiconductor business. It not only serves customers in the Asia Pacific region, but also in North America and Europe. From crystal growth to semiconductor production and research and development, Ansemy will invest resources in all these fields.
