Semiconductor Industry

Project Overview: Building a chip fabrication plant where companies actively cooperate and share information with each other in order to nurture leading micro magnetoresistance sensor manufacturers
Project Cost: KRW 31 billion (state funding)
Project Scale: The fourth floor/ the first basement floor (Gross floor area: 6,000 ㎡)
Major facility: Semiconductor clean room (manufacturing facilities), business incubator and business support center
Project Descriptions
- Construction of Daegu’s magnetic-sensor-chip foundry as the city's social infrastructure in order to develop home-grown advanced magnetic sensor chips and address uncertainties when promising ideas are commercialized
- An improvement in processing and analyzing equipment and infrastructure used for advanced semiconductors

Project Overview: Advancing DGIST’s micro magnetic sensor foundry in order to localize magnetic sensor technologies, attract micro magnetoresistance sensor manufacturers and set a foundation for related venture businesses
Project Cost: KRW 30 billion (KRW 20 billion in state funding , KRW 10 billion in local government funding)
Project Descriptions
- R&D, Education, other services (process lines, consultation, etc.)
- Construction of fabrication lines and advancement of manufacture platforms that will support development of pre-prototypes of magnetic sensor chips and evaluation for product performance
- Advancement of utilities, safety equipment and monitoring system in order to ensure a reliable infrastructure of nanochip fabrication plants

Professional training for the semiconductor talent: nurturing excellent human resources with practical skills through the training programs
Support for talent hiring: 10 universities in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region, 25 academic departments, 2,344 excellent professionals