Globetronics Bayan Lepas Plant - Main Campus

Overview

Co-founded in 1991 by Michael Ng Kweng Chong and C.K. Tan with an initial paid-up capital of RM3 million, Globetronics began operations providing IC burn-in services from a rented facility in Penang and listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange on 3 November 1997. It has since grown into an established outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) player, providing IC assembly and test, technical ceramic substrates, optoelectronic and LED packaging, encoder and sensor device packaging, and chip-carrier/quartz-crystal products from its Bayan Lepas, Penang campus, with additional operations in the Philippines, Hong Kong and China and employing over 2,500 people. As an assembly-and-test house rather than a wafer fab, it has no process node or wafer-size of its own. Key facility details include: The facility is situated at Plot 2, Phase 4, Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia. It focuses on Assembly & Packaging, Sensors. Production at this facility commenced in 1991.