DB HiTek

DB HiTek Co., Ltd. (Korean: 주식회사 디비하이텍), formerly Dongbu HiTek, is a semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company headquartered in Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.

DB HiTek is one of the major contract chip manufacturers, alongside TSMC, Samsung Electronics, GlobalFoundries, and UMC.

[1] It is also the second-largest foundry company in South Korea, behind Samsung Electronics.

[2] Dongbu Electronics was founded as a memory chipmaker in 1997, but later was transformed into a foundry company in 2001.

[3] Dongbu Electronics acquired Anam Semiconductor's foundry operation from Amkor Technology for 114 billion South Korean Won (US$ 93 million) in 2002.