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ASE, Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung, Taiwan22.65°N 120.30°E
computed criticality19/100
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World's leading OSAT; +≈50–60,000 CoWoS-type wafers/month at OSATs by end 2026
2026Fault line
TSMC's official overflow when in-house CoWoS saturates: ASE, Amkor and SPIL absorb the downstream steps and develop their own variants. Real industrial redundancy, but geographically nil, most of this capacity remains in Taiwan, within the same seismic and geopolitical risk perimeter.
Actors
ASE Technology (Kaohsiung)
SPIL (Taichung)
Amkor (Tempe/Peoria)
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TSMC, HsinchuSilicon · Critical anchor↗Feeds 2
Nvidia, Santa ClaraCompute↗Strait of MalaccaChokepoints↗Shocks endured
CoWoS packaging becomes THE bottleneck of AIJun 1, 2024↗Sources