- CEO
- Young-Boo Kim
- Full Time Employees
- 218
- Sector
- Electronic technology
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Address
- Icheon-si South Korea
- IPO Date
- Nov 2, 2022
- Business
- QRT, Inc. is a South Korea-based provider of semiconductor reliability testing, failure analysis, and specialized testing equipment solutions for the global microelectronics, automotive, telecommunications, and aerospace industries. Tracing its origins to 1983 as the quality and reliability division of Hyundai Electronics (now SK Hynix) and established as an independent corporation in 2014, the company is headquartered in Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, and operates additional analytical facilities in Cheongju and Pangyo, alongside an international presence in Silicon Valley, United States. QRT, Inc. operates primarily through three core business segments: Semiconductor Reliability Testing, Comprehensive Failure Analysis, and Test Equipment Development. The company's service and product portfolio comprises: reliability qualification services, including High Temperature Operating Life (HTOL) testing, Highly Accelerated Stress Testing (HAST), Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), electrostatic discharge (ESD) and latch-up evaluations, thermal cycling, and environmental stress screening adhering to AEC-Q100, ISO 26262, JEDEC, and MIL-STD specifications; soft error effect (SEE) and Single Event Upset (SEU) radiation testing for high-reliability applications; advanced failure analysis services, encompassing non-destructive 3D X-ray and Scanning Acoustic Tomography (SAT), electrical fault isolation via emission microscopy (EMMI) and Optical Beam Induced Resistance Change (OBIRCH), physical cross-sectional analysis using Focused Ion Beam (FIB), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), as well as circuit modification and micro-deprocessing; and proprietary test equipment manufacturing, featuring in-house developed soft error detection systems, 5G/6G radio-frequency (RF) accelerated life test systems, and solid-state drive (SSD) Reliability Demonstration Test (RDT) platforms supporting PCIe Gen4 and Gen5 architectures. In recent strategic developments, QRT, Inc. has accelerated its operational expansion into next-generation artificial intelligence and computing sectors, deploying specialized reliability verification programs for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), Compute Express Link (CXL), and Processing-In-Memory (PIM) semiconductor devices. The company has also expanded its footprint across aerospace, satellite, and defense markets through international beam testing collaborations with facilities such as the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) and TRIUMF. Additionally, QRT, Inc. raised KRW 10.7 billion through the issuance of exchangeable bonds backed by treasury shares to fund research and development and scale manufacturing capacity for its proprietary semiconductor test equipment business.