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Inapac Secures $15 Million in Third Round of Financing
Additional Funding Supports Company Transition to High Volume Production
San Jose, CA, -- June 8, 2004 - Inapac Technology, Inc.,
the leading semiconductor company exclusively focused on DRAM for
system-in-package (SiP) applications, announced today that it has
secured more than $15M in its third round of financing. This latest
round of funding was led by AsiaVest Partners, with strong support
from strategic investors ProMos Technologies, UTC and Itochu. Existing
investors also showed substantial commitments, including AsiaTech
Management, CDIB and Novus Ventures. Inapac will use the funds to
ramp up to high volume manufacturing, add to its product offerings,
and strengthen its worldwide sales, operations and test engineering
support teams.
Leveraging the company's patented VIBE (Voltage Induced Burn-in
Emulation) technology, Inapac has established itself as the leading
provider of memory devices for system-in-package applications, and
has the only DRAM program specifically focused on SiP.
"Inapac has redefined DRAM for the SiP market with its unique
market focus and breakthrough burn-in emulation technique,"
said Franny Lee, Managing Director at AsiaVest Partners. "Top-tier
processor companies have told us that the company's proprietary
technology is able to fulfill their ever-changing memory power,
performance and form factor requirements for their SiP memory solutions.
As a result, we believe that Inapac is strongly positioned for continued
success in the growing SiP market."
"Inapac's unique die products were fully functional at first
silicon, and we are now ready to support them as they transition
to mass production," said Dr. Albert Lin, Senior Director at
ProMOS Technologies. "Inapac is bringing innovative and low-cost
memory integration into mainstream consumer electronic ICs, giving
the company an edge in the emerging SiP DRAM market. We are glad
to be both an investor and a foundry partner to Inapac."
"We are extremely pleased to have earned the continued confidence
of our previous investors, and we welcome new top-tier partners
AsiaVest, UTC, ITOCHU and ProMOS as they join our team," said
Jean-Pierre Braun, Inapac's President and CEO. "This new funding
will enable Inapac to move into volume production, expand our team
and capabilities, as well as add to our product portfolio. Our high
quality memory dice have now been qualified by multiple customers,
and we expect to gain a dominant share of the growing SiP DRAM market
in the next 12 months."
In the past nine months, fueled by growing DRAM for SiP demand
and the industry's accelerating move toward greater system-level
integration in smaller form factors, Inapac has doubled its workforce
and will continue to hire engineering, operations and business staff.
The company recently moved into its newly expanded headquarters
in San Jose, California, opened a branch office in Hsinchu, Taiwan,
and increased the size of its office in Boise, Idaho.
About Inapac
Inapac Technology, Inc. is the leading semiconductor company exclusively
focused on DRAM for system-in-package (SiP) applications. Founded
in 2000 by an expert team of DRAM specialists, Inapac has developed
a family of unique die products architected and optimized for its
target markets. Based on Inapac's patented VIBE
technology, these die components are used by some of the largest
semiconductor and systems companies in the world to enhance the
performance and quality of some of their leading products, in particular
in the cell phone, hard disk drive, and digital imaging markets.
Inapac is headquartered in San Jose, California with additional
offices in Boise, Idaho and Hsinchu, Taiwan. For more information,
visit the company's website at www.inapac.com.
Media Contact
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