Compound Semiconductor Technologies Global wins six figure deal with Chinese developer

06 June 2011

Optoelectronics device foundry Compound Semiconductor Technologies Global Ltd (CSTG) of Hamilton Technology Park, High Blantyre says that it has secured a six-figure supply agreement with one of China’s emerging telecom and datacom developers.

CSTG was formed in 1999 by the universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow (together with Scottish Enterprise) as a ‘pure play’ foundry supplier in West of Scotland Science Park, specialising in the design, development and manufacture of discrete and integrated III-V optoelectronic wafers and chips with clients in the communications, defense, medical, energy and instrumentation markets.

The latest news comes as the firm has reached a production milestone, having manufactured 2 million laser chips since acquiring the manufacturing facility in Hamilton in January 2010 from Intense Photonics Ltd, a manufacturer of makes single- and multi-mode monolithic laser array products and high-power laser diodes. CSTG is now set to double its annual revenue to £5 million within the next three years.

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