DB HiTek Co., Ltd.

Native name	주식회사 디비하이텍
Formerly	Dongbu HiTek
Company type	Public
Traded as	KRX: 000990
Industry	Semiconductors
Founded	February 1, 1997; 26 years ago (1997-02-01)
Headquarters	Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do , South Korea
Parent	DB Group
Website	www.dbhitek.com

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]

History

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.^[4]

Dongbu HiTek was established in 2007 as a result of the merger between Dongbu Electronics and Dongbu Hannong Chemical, both of which are subsidiaries of Dongbu Group.^[5] Dongbu HiTek changed its company name to DB HiTek when Dongbu Group was renamed DB Group in 2017.^[6]