A reporter from "Daily Economic News" noticed that Chairman Zhao Weiguo has been called a "merger maniac" due to his continuous "actions" in the chip industry and capital market in recent years.

Riyueguang Investment Holdings (3711, TW) announced on August 10 that it sold 30% of its subsidiary Suzhou Riyuexin Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Suzhou Riyuexin) to Ziguang Group Co., Ltd. for US$95.3348 million. Equity. After the sale, ASE Investment Holdings still holds 70% of the shares in Suzhou ASE. Riyuexin Investment Holdings stated that this transaction is "expanding the market through strategic alliances."

A reporter from "Daily Economic News" noticed that Chairman Zhao Weiguo has been called a "merger maniac" due to his continuous "takes" in the chip industry and capital market in recent years. It is worth mentioning that this transaction is another "hand in hand" between Unisplendour Group and ASE Investment Holdings.

"Ten years ago, it was very difficult for China to invest 10 billion US dollars to start a business, but today we have begun to have such a condition." On the evening of August 11, Wang Huixuan, director and co-president of Unisplendour Group, Wang Huixuan, said publicly at a forum , Integrated circuit is a capital-intensive industry and requires capital from different fields to promote the rapid development of the industry.

The transaction amount is equivalent to RMB 653 million

According to the announcement of ASE Investment Holdings, its subsidiary JR Holding Limited disclosed the equity transaction for Suzhou Riyue New. The transaction amount was approximately US$95.3348 million, equivalent to approximately NT$2.918 billion, equivalent to approximately RMB 653 million yuan.

Public information shows that Suzhou Riyuexin is a semiconductor packaging and testing factory jointly invested by NXP Semiconductors and ASE in 2007. In March 2018, ASE Investment Holdings purchased the 40% stake in Suzhou Riyuexin held by NXP for US$127 million through its subsidiary JR Holding Limited. Prior to the transaction, ASE Investment Holdings wholly owned Suzhou Riyuexin.

Suzhou Riyuexin seems to be planning to expand its scale. According to the online transfer announcement of the state-owned construction land use rights in Suzhou Industrial Park, on June 20 this year, Suzhou Riyuexin won an 8,336.26-square-meter plot of land for 3.63 million yuan. The plot is located to the west of its existing factory site. The land use For Industry (R&D).

ASE Investment Holdings' subsidiaries include ASE Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Silicon Precision Industry Co., Ltd., both of which are semiconductor packaging and testing manufacturing service companies. Huidian Co., Ltd. is a professional electronic OEM manufacturing service provider and also provides Member of ASE Investment Holdings. According to the official website of ASE Investment Control, the company is the world's leading semiconductor packaging and testing manufacturing services company, providing integrated services to semiconductor customers from front-end wafer testing and wafer probing to back-end packaging, materials and finished product testing.

packaging and testing is the last link in the integrated circuit industry chain. Previously, Tsinghua Unigroup had tried to acquire the equity interests of a number of packaging and testing manufacturers in Taiwan through raising funds, and eventually changed its position to invest in the Shanghai packaging and testing factory invested by Nanmao Technology and the Suzhou packaging and testing factory invested by Silicon Products to improve their packaging and testing links.

Yueguang Investment Holdings disclosed that its most recent financial statement operating funds were negative NT$168.441 billion. Regarding the profitability of Suzhou ASE and the impact of this transaction on the future market expansion of ASE Investment Holdings, a reporter from "Daily Economic News" sent an email to its investor relations department. As of the time of publication, no clear response has been received.

Ziguang Group is facing a change of actual controller

Recently, there have been some rumors about Ziguang Group’s mergers and acquisitions. On August 6, the official website of Tsinghua Unigroup issued a statement stating that the news reported by some media that it intends to acquire Siltronic AG, a German wafer factory, is purely a rumor and has no factual basis. Tsinghua Unigroup has not participated in the acquisition of Siltronic AG. In the past month, news about Ziguang Group’s US$2.5 billion acquisition of French smart chip component manufacturer Linxens has circulated on the Internet, but Ziguang Group has not given a clear response.

Due to frequent capital operations in recent years, Zhao Weiguo, chairman of Ziguang Group, has been dubbed a "merger maniac" by the outside world. Zhao Weiguo also said in an exclusive interview with the media that through three mergers and acquisitions and three alliances, he quickly completed the ecological layout in the field of integrated circuits within two years.

"Ten years ago, it was very difficult for China to invest 10 billion US dollars to start a business, but today we have begun to have such conditions."On the evening of August 11, Wang Huixuan, director and co-president of Ziguang Group, publicly stated at a forum that integrated circuits are a capital-intensive industry and require capital from different fields to promote the rapid development of the industry.

Ziguang Group is backed by Tsinghua University. It has formed a high-tech industrial ecological chain dominated by integrated circuits from "core" to "cloud". According to its official website, currently, Unisoc Group is China's largest comprehensive integrated circuit company and the world's third largest mobile phone chip. Enterprise.

It is worth noting that Ziguang Group is facing a change in its actual controller recently. On the evening of August 10, the "Unigroup" listed companies Ziguang Guowei , Ziguang Co., Ltd. and Ziguang Optical announced that they had received the announcement on the 10th. Ziguang Group informed that Ziguang Group’s controlling shareholder Tsinghua Holdings is planning to transfer part of its equity. This matter may involve changes in the actual controller of the listed company. Previously, Tsinghua Holdings announced a change in board members, and Zhao Weiguo, chairman of Ziguang Group, no longer exists. Served as a director of the fifth board of directors of Tsinghua Holdings

(Editor in charge: Chang Shuaishuai)