RISING VOLUME: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc aims to set up a ‘clean room’ in Singapore and add capacity to its Malaysian fab to cope with the uptrend in demand

Taipei Times
Date: Nov 21, 2017
By: Lisa Wang  /  Staff reporter, in SINGAPORE

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc (ASE, 日月光半導體) expects revenue from its fabs in Malaysia and Singapore to grow at an annual pace of 10 percent next year to surpass US$300 million, driven primarily by rapidly growing automotive electronics demand.

The rate would be an acceleration from this year’s 8 percent increase, the world’s largest chip tester and packager said.

“Automotive electronics is the fastest-growing segment and the main driving force,” ASE Southeast Asia president Lee Kwai Mun told a media briefing on Friday.

ASE in 2013 set up a clean room in Malaysia to provide testing and packaging services for image sensors used in 360-degree cameras for cars, in response to demand from European customers, Lee said.    [FULL  STORY]