SK Telecom will make an additional investment of $20 million in Nanox Imaging, an Israel-based medical imaging technology company, to become the second largest shareholder. SK Telecom initially invested $3 million in Nanox in 2019.As the first company to introduce commercial-grade digital X-ray technology based on a proprietary silicon MEMs semiconductor technology, Nanox developed the Nanox System, which is composed of the Nanox.Arc, a novel digital X-ray device and the Nanox.Cloud, a companion cloud-based software.
The Nanox System will enable medical imaging systems to be built at significantly lower costs to promote early detection of medical conditions that are discoverable by X-ray and X-ray based imaging modalities such as 3D Tomosynthesis, fluoroscopy and others.SK Telecom and Nanox signed a collaboration agreement aiming to deploy 2,500 units of the Nanox System in Vietnam and Korea.The two companies are also discussing plans to establish Nanox’s subsidiary in Korea to scale up the production of Nanox X-ray source semiconductor by leveraging SK Telecom’s expertise in semiconductors.
Source: This news is taken from www.electronicsweekly.com
