At the beginning of May, the US-based company Mailing Technology announced the acquisition of the main control chip manufacturer Huirong Technology, which attracted widespread attention in the industry. Recently, there have been many mergers and acquisitions in the semiconductor industry. APACT acquires ATsemicon packaging business unit According to Korean media reports, APACT, a Korean semiconductor equipment manufacturer, recently stated that it will acquire the packaging business unit of ATsemicon. The division is responsible for semiconductor packaging and testing, and APACT will take over the packaging part. ATsemicon's customers include SK Hynix and other fabless chip companies. Recently, APACT also established a second packaging factory and is expanding in this area. Foreign media reported that the acquisition is currently at the stage of a memorandum of understanding, and APACT will determine the purchase price after reviewing ATsemicon’s facilities. Chip packaging has become increasingly important in the semiconductor field due to fierce competition among chip manufacturers in microfabrication. An APACT spokesman said the company aims to provide packaging and test as a turnkey solution for chipmakers and to become an integrated outsourced semiconductor assembly and test company. LX Semicon acquires Telechips 10.93% According to Korean media BusinessKorea, on May 17, LX Semicon, the semiconductor design division of LX Group, announced that it will acquire a 10.93% stake in Telechips, a company specializing in automotive semiconductor design, for 26.8 billion won. LX Semicon said that the company made an equity investment in Telechips to promote the research and development of automotive semiconductors. It is understood that Telechips provides semiconductor products for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and in-vehicle infotainment systems to global automakers including Hyundai Motors. According to reports, LX Semicon's main business is the production of display driver ICs (DDIs) for TVs and smartphones. Yachuang Electronics acquired 60% of the shares of Ou Chuangxin for 240 million On May 16, Shanghai Yachuang Electronics Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Yachuang Electronics") announced that it would purchase Shenzhen Ouchan, a company specializing in the design and development of analog and digital integrated circuits and custom design services for special-purpose chips (ASIC), in cash. Core Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ou Chuangxin") 60% equity. According to the disclosure, the transaction value of this acquisition is 240 million yuan. After the transaction is completed, Yachuang Electronics will become the largest shareholder of Outron, holding 60% of the shares. According to the data, OuChuangxin is an analog chip developer, focusing on analog integrated circuit design, research and development and services. Its products include integrated circuit chip-LED driver, integrated circuit chip-DCDC power management, integrated circuit chip-MCU, mainly used in Automotive lamp after-installation market, electric vehicle market, furniture lighting market and other fields. Yachuang Electronics is an electronic component distributor and power management IC designer in the field of automotive electronics. The related products have passed the AEC-Q100 vehicle-level certification and have achieved mass shipments. And cooperate with well-known domestic and foreign automakers such as Geely, Great Wall, Changan, BYD, Hyundai, FAW, Kia, Chrysler, Volkswagen, Xiaopeng, etc. Yachuang Electronics said that this acquisition will help to rapidly increase the company's influence in the automotive power management IC market, expand the company's product models, and increase the penetration rate of the company's IC products. Red Avenue New Materials acquired 33.01% equity of Beixu Electronics for 200 million On May 17, Red Avenue New Materials announced that Shanghai Red Avenue Electronic Materials Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Red Avenue Electronics"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, will acquire Beijing Beixu Electronic Materials Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Beijing Beixu Electronic Materials Co., Ltd.) held by Shanghai Zhengfang Chemical Co., Ltd. Abbreviated as "Beixu Electronics") about 33.01% of the shares, with a transaction volume of about 197 million yuan. According to the data, Red Avenue New Materials is a well-known semiconductor material company in China, focusing on the development of electronic materials business, while Beixu Electronics is the first local manufacturer of TFT-LCDArray photoresist in mainland China, and also the largest local liquid crystal positive photoresist in China. supplier. According to reports, the Beixu Qianjiang factory with an annual output of 6,000 tons of positive photoresist projects has been officially put into production in January 2022. At present, the production capacity transfer of all positive photoresist products of Beixu (Beijing) has been completed, and the market has been gradually expanded. The annual supply demand of 6,000 tons of positive photoresist materials can be achieved after all the production capacity is reached. In 2021, Beixu's electronic panel photoresist business achieved sales revenue of 256 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.7%; sales of photoresist products increased by 21% year-on-year, with a domestic market share of about 19%, ranking the second largest supplier in China . After the completion of this transaction, Red Avenue New Materials will hold 81.14% of Beixu Electronics. Red Avenue New Materials said that this acquisition can help the company establish an advanced quality system and quality defense system to ensure the batch stability of photoresist, so as to maintain a long-term and stable supply and sales relationship with customers.