In early trading on the 3rd, shares of optical communication specialist Korea Advanced Materials are strong. Buying is seen as pouring in on news that it signed a technology transfer agreement with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI).
As of 9:18 a.m., Korea Advanced Materials is trading at 3,575 won, up 825 won (30.00%) from the previous trading day. Immediately after the market opened, the stock went straight to the upper price limit (the top of the daily price band).
Korea Advanced Materials said it signed a transfer agreement with ETRI before the regular session opened for the "impedance-matched silicon interposer technology for 200 Gbs ultra-high-speed signal transmission."
This technology precisely designs the interconnection structure between semiconductor components to reliably deliver electrical signals operating in ultra-high-speed environments. In high-speed processing environments such as data centers, the quality of chip-to-chip connections has a direct impact on signal loss and speed degradation, making high-reliability connection technology important.
The technology is also a research outcome ETRI secured during the development of optical device component technology for a 1.6 Tbps-class optical transceiver for Intra-DC communications.
A Korea Advanced Materials official said, "This technology transfer is meaningful in that it secured foundational technology to respond to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers and ultra-high-speed optical communication environments," adding, "We plan to gradually push forward with related product development by combining it with existing optical component technology."