ASE Technology Holding Co (日月光投控) subsidiary Siliconware Precision Industries Co (SPIL, 矽品精密) has acquired factory buildings and attached equipment from solar energy developer United Renewable Energy Co (聯合再生) for about NT$2.8 billion (US$88.52 million).
ASE Technology, the world’s largest integrated circuit (IC) packaging and testing services provider, in a statement on Tuesday said that the factory, which has five levels above ground and three basement levels, has a total floor area of 41,030.55m2.
The property is in Hsinchu Science Park’s (新竹科學園區) Miaoli section, the statement said.
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Industrial sources said that SPIL would use the space to expand its capacity to meet robust demand amid an artificial intelligence (AI) boom.
The disposal of the property allowed United Renewable Energy to pocket NT$2.1 billion in profit, the solar energy developer said in a separate statement.
ASE Technology is expecting an order backlog for AI-related advanced 3D chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging services, industry sources said.
SPIL said at the weekend that it is planning to construct five factory buildings to expand capacity at its compound in Changhua County, with the new facilities scheduled to start operations next year.
SPIL in April last year secured the surface rights for a parcel of land in the Central Taiwan Science Park’s (中部科學園區) Houli section in Taichung for 20 years to build new facilities, and expand advanced IC packaging and testing production.
The firm in January last year inaugurated a new plant in Taichung’s Tanzi Technology Industrial Park (潭子科技產業園區) to secure more CoWoS capacity.
ASE Technology posted consolidated sales of NT$645.39 billion for last year, up 8.4 percent from a year earlier, company data showed.
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