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Smoltek and Yageo CTO's at Yageo HQ.

Smoltek Semi visiting Taiwan

In mid-April, the management team of Smoltek Semi visited Taiwan for meetings and workshops with our collaboration partner YAGEO. Together, we also made a series of meetings with intended customers for Smotek's ultra-thin CNF-MIM capacitors.

April 26, 2023

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.

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