TAIPEI, Taiwan — Revenue falls at Taiwan two leading chip packagers and testers. Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE), the world’s largest chip packager and tester, said its revenue contracted 5.4 percent to NT$26.27 billion last month, compared with NT$27.75 billion in October. While its local rival Siliconware Precision Industries Co. (SPIL) said its revenue fell 4.2 percent to NT$6.77 billion last month from NT$7.07 billion in October.
The figure of ASE was up 4 percent from the previous year hat brought ASE’s total revenue in the first 11 months of the year to NT$261.77 billion, up about 13 percent year-on-year from NT$231.72 billion.
Meanwhile, ASE’s local rival Siliconware Precision Industries Co. said its revenue fell 4.2 percent to NT$6.77 billion last month from NT$7.07 billion in October. That was a 6.1 percent decline from NT$7.21 billion the previous year. In the first 11 months, SPIL’s revenue fell 0.42 percent to NT$75.91 billion from NT$76.23 billion the previous year.
Moreover, ASE announced in last month that 6 of its production facilities in Nantze, Kaohsiung; K4, K7, K8, K10, K11 and K12, have received the ISO 15408-EAL6 certification, becoming the first outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) services company to achieve this significant recognition.
