Professional semiconductor solution provider Spirox Corporation (TWSE: 3055) and the emerging digital optics brand Southport Corporation jointly announce their collaboration. Both parties will work together to seize the market for compound semiconductors, low-dimensional nanomaterials, perovskite solar cells, MicroLEDs, and other semiconductor material analysis markets in the Greater China. Spirox and Southport will jointly promote advanced optical analysis and detection modules and equipment, providing a comprehensive digital optics solution for academic research institutions and the semiconductor industry in both Taiwan and China.
As the industry rapidly develops, China has become the world's largest consumer and demander of semiconductor materials. The consumption of advanced materials has been increasing year by year. However, the utilization rate of locally produced materials has remained low, and some products face serious patent technology bottlenecks. Over the past decade, research projects and industry policies, represented by the 02 Special Project and the 863 Program, have jointly promoted the research and industrialization of advanced semiconductor materials, low-dimensional nanomaterials, perovskite solar cells, MicroLEDs, and other fields in China. This has attracted unprecedented enthusiasm and investment from the academic and industrial sectors. However, due to the lack of advanced optical analysis and detection equipment, the localization process of semiconductor materials in China remains slow. The development process relies heavily on trial and error and experimentation, with research outcomes having a certain degree of unpredictability. Therefore, a solution that can contribute to the innovation of basic materials and advanced device processes has long been anticipated by the industry.
Southport adopts a modular and digital solution that can meet the high-level optical analysis and detection technology needs of customers in advanced material analysis.
George Yang, General Manager of Spirox Technology (Shanghai), stated that Southport, based on two core technologies, "digital optics" and "5D microscopy," integrates innovative optical concepts and technology into advanced material analysis, 3D optical microscopy inspection, and digital optical applications. Faced with challenges such as time-consuming calibration, complex operation, unstable performance, and difficulty in verifying innovative concepts in traditional optical measurement systems, Southport adopts a modular and digital solution. This approach can meet the demands of customers in China for advanced optical analysis and detection technology in material analysis, enhancing the integrity of Spirox’s process quality solutions, and providing a perfect solution for customers' material research and product innovation.。
Dr. Jay Wang, COO of Southport, expressed that Spirox has shown remarkable performance in process and quality assurance solutions in recent years. Spirox has a high level of understanding of customer needs, coupled with the rich industry resources and customer relationships accumulated over the years. This makes Spirox Technology the strongest and most powerful partner for Southport to enter the advanced material analysis market in China's semiconductor industry. Dr. Wang believes that with Spirox's professional and experienced business and technical teams, they will be able to seize the opportunities in the rapidly growing advanced material analysis market in China.
Spirox and Southport jointly promote digital optics and 5D microscopy technology to support advanced material innovation research and industrialization
About Spirox
Spirox Corporation (TWSE: 3055) is a professional semiconductor testing solution provider in the Great China. Partnered with worldwide leading suppliers, including AFORE, ERS, Hamamatsu, NI, TASMIT, SEMICS, ShibaSoku, Southport, Toray Engineering, Turbodynamics, etc., Spirox provides various integrated solutions to fulfill customer needs in testing, packaging, and inspection in semiconductor industry. Founded in 1987, Spirox is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, with additional service branches in Kaohsiung, Shanghai, Suzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing and Chengdu. For more information, please visit www.spirox.com.
About Southport
Southport Co. was established in August 2014. The founding team gathered talents from cross fields such as optics, materials, physics, and information, introducing state of the art optical design concepts in optical engineering. Southport is founded on the two core technologies of 5D microscopy and digital optics, Southport has introduced brand-new optics concepts and technologies into four key application areas: advanced material analysis, biomedical imaging, microstructure material inspection, and digital optics. For more information, please visit the company's official website at www.southport.com.tw.
