Outline of the business and products
Shinkawa is reshaping the semiconductor industry-with unique products, technology and customer support as the leader in semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
【Supporting the assembly process of semiconductor production】
The semiconductor production process consists of the wafer process to form a circuit on a silicon wafer and the assembly process to split the wafer into IC chips for assembly into a semiconductor product. The Shinkawa precision robot assembles the IC chips into semiconductor products, bonds the chips onto lead frames (die-bonding process), and then uses gold wire to connect the electrodes of the bonded chip and the lead frame (wire-bonding process).
In the past, electrodes were manually connected. In 1977, Shinkawa succeeded in commercializing the first fully automatic wire bonder in the world, which earned the trust of the world's semiconductor manufacturers. Now, the company is one of the world's leading players in the wire bonder market.