Founded in 2009, HT Micron is a Brazilian company dedicated to providing local semiconductor solutions. As a result of the technological cooperation between Brazil and South Korea, its headquarters is located at the Tecnosinos complex, in the city of São Leopoldo, about 35km from Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul.
HT Micron started its operations on a previous infrastructure, called Basecamp, in July 2011. It was a clean room that enabled the start of local semiconductor production in Brazil. Its permanent headquarters, with approximately 10,000 m² of constructed area, was inaugurated on June 7th 2014, and with this new headquarters, HT Micron expanded its production capacity of semiconductor components using the most advanced technologies.
With one of its main objectives being to stimulate knowledge generation and add value to Brazilian electronic industry value chain and believing that university environment is highly stimulating and has great potential in the technology innovation process, HT Micron, along with universities, invests and encourages research, development and innovation, having as one of its projects the Institute of Semiconductor Technology development at Unisinos.