- CEO
- Hyung-Kook Yang
- Full Time Employees
- 95
- Sector
- Electronic technology
- Industry
- Telecommunications equipment
- Address
- Pyeongtaek-si South Korea
- IPO Date
- Nov 7, 2023
- Business
- SAWNICS INC. is a South Korea-based semiconductor company that specializes in the development, manufacturing, and foundry production of radio frequency (RF) filters and advanced acoustic wave components for wireless telecommunications and electronics. Founded in October 2000 and headquartered in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, the company operates specialized 6-inch wafer fabrication facilities to provide pure-play foundry services and proprietary components to global fabless semiconductor designers, module integrators, and original equipment manufacturers across South Korea, China, Taiwan, the United States, and Europe. SAWNICS INC. organizes its business around precision micro-acoustic filtering and custom wafer manufacturing services, offering 6-inch Thin Film Surface Acoustic Wave (TF-SAW) filter foundry processing optimized for 5G and sub-6GHz high-frequency bands; Silicon-based Surface Acoustic Wave (Si-SAW) and Temperature Compensated Surface Acoustic Wave (TC-SAW) foundry manufacturing; standard Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filters and resonators; RF duplexers, triplexers, and multiplexers for mobile handset front-end modules; automotive-grade RF filters certified under IATF 16949 standards for telematics, vehicle-to-everything (V2X), and connected car navigation systems; and comprehensive wafer-level packaging (WLP), testing, and characterization services for RF front-end architectures utilized in smartphones, wearables, internet of things (IoT) hardware, and cellular base stations. In recent strategic developments, SAWNICS INC. completed its initial public offering on the KOSDAQ market under ticker 088280, executing a business model transition to focus primarily on high-value pure-play specialty foundry contracts for global clients. Broadening its technology portfolio beyond acoustic filters into next-generation optoelectronics, the company entered into a strategic collaboration and technology transfer agreement with Swiss photonics developer Luxtelligence to establish a specialized foundry line for Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs), addressing data transfer bottlenecks in AI data centers, optical transceivers, and quantum computing systems. In addition, SAWNICS INC. continues to expand its 6-inch fabrication cleanroom capacity and upgrade automated process equipment at its Pyeongtaek facility to accelerate production scale for high-power filter solutions supporting 5G-Advanced and emerging 6G wireless communication standards.