Smoltek Semi visiting Taiwan

Smol­tek Semi has been vis­it­ing Taiwan for a series of meet­ings with our col­lab­or­a­tion part­ner YAGEO as well as a num­ber of meet­ings with poten­tial cus­tom­ers of CNF-MIM capacitors.

We have met with a num­ber of poten­tial cus­tom­ers and presen­ted our CNF-MIM capa­cit­or tech­no­logy, and listened to their spe­cif­ic needs for future capa­cit­or products.

Håkan Persson, CEO of Smol­tek and Pres­id­ent of Smol­tek Semi

The cus­tom­ers we have met are incred­ibly curi­ous about our capa­cit­or tech­no­logy, and they want us to provide them with engin­eer­ing samples* as soon as possible. 

How­ever, first we need to see up an indus­tri­al 8‑inch format man­u­fac­tur­ing pro­cess for the engin­eer­ing samples. This indus­tri­al pro­cess is planned to be ready some­time dur­ing the third quarter this year. When this pro­cess is up and run­ning, we can hope­fully start pro­du­cing engin­eer­ing samples by the end of 2023. 

The meet­ings have provided us with oppor­tun­it­ies to dis­cuss the dif­fer­ent types of con­fig­ur­a­tions and require­ment spe­cific­a­tions each cus­tom­er has for the next gen­er­a­tion of capa­cit­ors to be used in their chip.

Louise Duker, Chief Product Officer at Smol­tek Semi

* Engin­eer­ing samples
We define indus­tri­ally pro­duced capa­cit­or pro­to­types that are made with our pro­pri­et­ary car­bon nan­ofiber tech­no­logy (CNF-MIM) as engin­eer­ing samples. This broad defin­i­tion is made just to make cus­tom­er dia­logues easier.

We some­times com­mu­nic­ate that we are producing/​have pro­duced capa­cit­or pro­to­types. These should not be mis­taken for what we call engin­eer­ing samples as they are solely made for pro­duc­tion pro­cess test­ing and oth­er in-house R&D activities.

Top image fea­tures Far­z­an Ghavanini, CTO at Smol­tek and Philip Less­ner, EVP of YAGEO Group.