ISE Labs Opens Second Silicon Valley Location

<p><strong>FREMONT<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; ISE Labs&comma; Inc&period;&comma; a provider of semiconductor engineering services&comma; is opening a second U&period;S&period; facility&comma; located in San Jose&period; Together&comma; the Fremont and San Jose sites will double ISE’s available R&amp&semi;D lab and business space&comma; reinforcing the company’s commitment to Silicon Valley while expanding its North American footprint and helping to strengthen the U&period;S&period; semiconductor supply chain&period; The new facility is located at 2201 Qume Drive in San Jose&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>ISE Labs purchased the building in late 2023 and has built it out specifically to accommodate the engineering needs of its North American customers&comma; many of whom are working on solutions for emerging semiconductor applications&comma; such as artificial intelligence&sol;machine learning &lpar;AI&sol;ML&rpar;&comma; advanced driver assistance systems &lpar;ADAS&rpar;&comma; and high-performance computing &lpar;HPC&rpar;&comma; to name a few&period; In addition to shifting some team members between facilities&comma; ISE Labs is seeking a number of highly skilled engineers and technicians for the new site&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kenneth Hsiang&comma; Chief Executive Officer of ISE Labs&comma; said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As semiconductor manufacturing supply chain reshoring continues to escalate&comma; demand for our proven engineering expertise is growing in parallel&period; Expanding our operations by adding a second facility is vital to support our growing customers&comma; who are onsite daily due to the collaborative nature of our work&period; Ease of access in the South Bay was a key consideration in selecting our new site&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The San Jose facility will primarily house qualification and reliability process&comma; including environmental&comma; mechanical&comma; electrostatic discharge &lpar;ESD&rpar;&comma; failure analysis&comma; and burn-in&period; ISE Labs’ high-power burn-in solutions – vital to detecting early failures in a semiconductor device – are among the best and highest-performing in the industry&period; The Fremont site will expand its already robust set of test functions&comma; including automated test equipment &lpar;ATE&rpar; test program development&comma; test hardware design&comma; device characterization&comma; wafer probing&comma; and engineering&comma; pre-production and final test&comma; and system-level test&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are firmly committed to our investment in Silicon Valley&period; It both contributes to the region’s revitalizing its position in the semiconductor industry and supports U&period;S&period; manufacturers more broadly&period; Adding this new high-end facility to our existing local footprint is an important step&comma;” said Dr&period; Tien Wu&comma; Chief Executive Officer&comma; ASE&comma; Inc&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our ISE Labs division – the largest semiconductor testing service provider in North America – is essential to advancing ASE’s role in driving the development of the world’s most innovative electronics&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>ISE Labs is a subsidiary of Taiwan&&num;8217&semi;s Advanced Semiconductor Engineering &lpar;ASE&rpar;&period; The company is a leader in advanced semiconductor assembly and test services&comma; ASE offers a wide portfolio of technology and solutions for IC test program design&comma; front-end engineering test&comma; wafer probe&comma; wafer bump&comma; substrate design and supply&comma; wafer level packaging&comma; flip chip&comma; system-in-package&comma; and other manufacturing services&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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