SINGAPORE, Nov. 13,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kulicke and Soffa
Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: KLIC) ("Kulicke & Soffa",
"K&S", "we" or the "Company"), has received an order from a
leading foundry customer for multiple APTURA™ Fluxless TCB
systems to support the broadening global adoption of advanced
packaging capacity for leading-edge semiconductor production.
Kulicke & Soffa continues to actively expand its customer
base with APTURA™ – the most advanced Fluxless
Thermo-Compression (FTC) system available, and the first to support
FTC in a production environment. Today, Kulicke & Soffa has
delivered over 30 FTC systems supporting development and production
activities across five separate end customers.
The Company's leading APTURA™ FTC system:
- Is production-proven – K&S is first to enable high-volume
FTC in production environment.
- Supports a wide range of material configurations – source
wafer, reel, or tray; to a target wafer, interposer, die or
substrate – capable of supporting all die-to-die, or die-to-wafer
based applications, in production.
- Extends pitch capabilities – APTURA™ FTC platform enables
ultra-fine pitch direct Cu-to-Cu bonding down to 8µm, as well as
capable of supporting CuFirst, which is expected to scale down
towards 3µm pitch.
Prior to Kulicke & Soffa's innovations in FTC, traditional
thermo-compression solutions – requiring both flux and solder – are
pitch limited down to approximately 30µm, which previously limited
adoption in leading-edge logic devices. Today, the growing adoption
of FTC across a broadening set of IDM, OSAT and now Foundry
customers is a testament to the future potential of this innovative
technology, and the Company's leadership through this exciting
transition.
Strong ongoing demand for FTC development is directly related to
the growing value of Advanced Packaging techniques throughout the
semiconductor assembly market. These solutions provide a new level
of industry value with the potential to lower design cost, reduce
yield challenges and enable new levels of transistor density at the
package level. During fiscal year 2025, K&S anticipates its TCB
business will grow by 40-50% sequentially, driven by broadening
adoption in leading-edge compute, optical, communications and
industrial markets.
About Kulicke & Soffa
Founded in 1951, Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. specializes
in developing cutting-edge semiconductor and electronics assembly
solutions enabling a smarter and more sustainable future. Our
ever-growing range of products and services supports growth and
facilitates technology transitions across large-scale markets, such
as advanced display, automotive, communications, compute, consumer,
data storage, energy storage and industrial.
Caution Concerning Results, Forward-Looking Statements and
Certain Risks Related to our Business
In addition to historical statements, this press release
contains statements relating to future events and our future
results. These statements are "forward-looking" statements within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. While these forward-looking statements represent our
judgments and future expectations concerning our business,
including the importance and competitiveness of our
thermo-compression bonding products and other advanced packaging
technology transitions, a number of risks, uncertainties and other
important factors could cause actual developments and results to
differ materially from our expectations. These factors include, but
are not limited to our ability to develop, manufacture and gain
market acceptance of new and enhanced products, disruptions,
breaches or failures in our information technology systems and
network infrastructures, the persistent macroeconomic headwinds on
our business, actual or potential inflationary pressures, interest
rate and risk premium adjustments, falling customer sentiment, or
economic recession caused directly or indirectly by geopolitical
tensions, our ability to operate our business in accordance with
our business plan and the other factors listed or discussed in our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2023, filed on November 16, 2023, and our other filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Kulicke and Soffa Industries,
Inc. is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any
obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements
whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.
Contacts
Kulicke & Soffa
Joseph Elgindy
Finance
+1-215-784-7500
investor@kns.com
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