- Full Time Employees
- 102
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Industrial machinery
- Address
- Icheon-si South Korea
- IPO Date
- Aug 23, 2018
- Business
- VM Inc. is a South Korea-based semiconductor equipment manufacturing company specializing in the design, development, and production of plasma-based dry etching and wafer-processing systems for advanced integrated circuit fabrication. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, the company primarily serves global memory and logic device manufacturers. VM Inc. operates through its specialized semiconductor equipment business segment, offering a comprehensive product portfolio that includes conductor and polysilicon dry etchers under the proprietary LEO series, comprising the LEO NK I, LEO NK I-C, LEO WH, LEO WS, and LEO WSE systems engineered for ultra-fine patterning in DRAM and 3D NAND flash memory production; metal layer dry etching systems, including the NARDO-M, Selex 200, and Selex 300 platforms utilized for electrode and metal interconnect processing; dielectric and oxide etching solutions, including the TIGRIS and Selex 300 platforms developed for high-aspect-ratio contact and insulation layer fabrication; and auxiliary plasma-processing equipment, such as APIS 300 plasma doping systems, through-silicon via (TSV) etchers, light-emitting diode (LED) etchers, and plasma wafer sawing apparatus. In addition to primary manufacturing equipment, the company provides chamber modification, equipment retrofitting, spare parts distribution, process optimization, and comprehensive field engineering support services. The company conducts primary manufacturing and research operations in South Korea and supports semiconductor fabrication facilities across East Asia, notably in mainland China, alongside an international presence in the United States. In recent developments, the company officially rebranded and changed its corporate name from Adaptive Plasma Technology Corp. (APTC Co., Ltd.) to VM Inc. in March 2024 to reflect its broader technological scope and global market orientation. VM Inc. has recently secured multiple equipment supply contracts with primary strategic partner SK Hynix to support advanced 1b-nanometer DRAM transition and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) production capacity, expanded commercialization efforts for its full-lineup etching solutions including oxide etching platforms, initiated infrastructure development for new facilities in the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster, and augmented its North American branch operations to target international foundry and non-memory semiconductor customers.