- CEO
- Seok-Won Yoon
- Full Time Employees
- 115
- Sector
- Electronic technology
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Address
- Seongnam-si South Korea
- IPO Date
- Sep 17, 2010
- Business
- Alphachips, Inc. is a South Korea-based semiconductor design service provider that specializes in turnkey Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and System-on-Chip (SoC) design, verification, and manufacturing management solutions. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, the company operates as a Design Solution Partner (DSP) within the Samsung Foundry ecosystem, serving fabless semiconductor firms, original equipment manufacturers, and system developers across South Korea, the United States, Japan, and Greater China.
The company's core business offerings encompass comprehensive semiconductor engineering services, including front-end design, RTL implementation, architecture planning, logic synthesis, and design-for-test (DFT) integration; back-end physical design, comprising floorplanning, place-and-route, timing closure, design rule checking, and layout verification; semiconductor intellectual property (IP) evaluation, licensing, and integration; turnkey mass production operations, spanning wafer fabrication coordination, packaging, and test engineering; and post-production field application engineering and technical support. Its product design solutions target artificial intelligence (AI) edge processing, high-performance computing (HPC), automotive control and communication systems, 5G wireless telecommunications, infrared (IR) receiver components, and smart consumer electronics. The company also maintains supplemental business lines in thermal management materials and renewable energy technologies.
In recent developments, the company executed a corporate restructuring and officially changed its name from Alpha Holdings, Inc. back to Alphachips, Inc. in April 2025 to reaffirm its strategic commitment to its core semiconductor design business. In October 2025, the company secured approximately KRW 3.4 billion in growth capital through a private placement of common shares to strategic corporate investors, including Fostec Co., Ltd., Gencore Technology Co., Ltd., and Innotec Co., Ltd., following an equity ownership change in February 2025 in which Fostec Co., Ltd. and Ensnet Co., Ltd. acquired a combined 6.71% stake from Premier Bio Corporation. In addition, Alphachips secured ISO 26262 automotive functional safety certification, expanding its technical capabilities and commercial pipeline in advanced automotive application-specific semiconductors, autonomous driving systems, and next-generation AI processors.