Thursday, August 14, 2014

IC Advanced Packaging Industry Report

In 2014, the biggest event that happened to the packaging industry was nothing but the attempt of Temasek to sell STATS ChipPAC, the world"s fifth largest packaging company. Owned by the Government of Singapore, STATS ChipPAC is less competitive, especially when facing the competition from the Taiwanese rivals. Although it has state-of-the-art technologies, yet the company depends heavily on its key accounts, including Infineon, Apple Inc., Qualcomm, and Broadcom, etc. However, Infineon has gradually withdrawn from mobile phone market while Apple Inc. and Qualcomm have diversified supply chain risks, cutting down on the orders of STATS ChipPAC, which led to a fall in revenue for four consecutive years. In addition, a second major event was the fact that SPIL had won massive orders from Qualcomm, MTK as well as Huawei’s Hisilicon, which would considerably increase SPIL’s revenue. In H1 2014, SPIL harvested a substantial growth of 27% in revenue, making it the world’s No.1 by operating margin. In 2014, the company is expected to surpass Amkor as the global second. In terms of technology, 3D (TSV) application is not yet so mature that the market is still confined to such non-mainstream fields as CIS, MEMS, and HB LED. The key Logic+Memory market have not made progress and will not get improvements in the coming 5 years, with PoP packaging still the mainstream. Details of the new report, table of contents and ordering information can be found on Electronics.ca Publications" web site. View the report: IC Advanced Packaging Industry Report.

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