Challenges for semiconductor sector (6): The value of back-end business

Advanced packaging technology has become a powerful tool for TSMC to grab orders for advanced chips. Now Samsung Electronics has also announced that it will strengthen its back-end packaging and testing technology. As for the top 10 makers in the packaging and testing industry, their revenue in 2021 reached US$33.7 billion. And the top-10 accounted for about 90% of the global packaging and testing industry, so the size of this market was about US$37 billion. Including back-end production of TSMC, Samsung, Intel and even Rohm, the output value of the whole industry wuld be about US$39.7 billion.

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