It’s reported that Alpha Plus Epi Inc., the epi-wafer subsidiary of Tyntek Corp. will spend US$30 million to add 10 to 15 MOCVD chambers in 2011.
At present, Alpha Plus is testing seven MOCVD chambers which were recently tooled at its factory in Taichung Industrial Park.
Additional equipment will come on line in the second and third quarters of 2011, and more chambers may be installed by the end of 2011 if called for by market demand. It is designed to have maximum load capacity of 30 chambers.
Aside from bring in MOVCD chambers, Tyntek is also speeding up investments in mainland China. It has recently invested around RMB353 million (US$53 million at US$1:RMB6.6) to team up with Fuzhou city government to build an LED venture in an industrial park in the city. The venture is planned to have 30 MOCVD machines to turn out the wafers sometime in the third quarter of 2011 for making chips available for public lighting projects.