FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 7, 2024--
ISE Labs, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor engineering services, today announced the acquisition of a significant parcel of land within Axis 2 Industrial Park, located in Tonalá, a city and municipality within the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area. This strategic land purchase demonstrates the company’s long-term commitment to the state of Jalisco and establishes a footprint for future expansion.
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ISE Labs focuses on semiconductor engineering, design and manufacturing scale-up of leading-edge semiconductor devices within North America and is a wholly owned subsidiary of ASE Technology Holding Company, the largest semiconductor assembly and test provider in the world. ASE plans for this project in Jalisco to include services for the packaging and testing of semiconductor chips, and believes it provides a unique opportunity for ASE to enlarge its global footprint and increase ASE’s presence in North America.
The future establishment of a semiconductor packaging and test facility in Jalisco paves the way for the recruitment of skilled engineers and technicians, and close collaboration with educational institutions on workforce development initiatives. The new facility is expected to create more than five hundred new jobs in its first year of operation.
To ensure the recruitment of the highly specialized talent required to operate in Jalisco, the Jalisco State Ministry of Economic Development (SEDECO), the Jalisco State Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology (SICyT) and the Jalisco State Ministry of Education will facilitate a strong link between ISE Labs and the region's educational institutions and chambers of commerce.
Jalisco currently accounts for 70% of the semiconductor market in Mexico. The industry generates significant value in the economy due to the high paying jobs required to successfully run operations as well as the continued innovation across the state’s technology community.
“We are excited to strengthen ISE’s partnership with the state of Jalisco by securing future business expansion through our purchase of land in Tonalá. This proactive investment demonstrates ISE’s commitment to innovation, growth, and its valued relationship with the state of Jalisco,” said Kenneth Hsiang, Chief Executive Officer, ISE Labs. “It also provides business flexibility to expand as demand for semiconductor packaging and test continues to grow throughout North America.”
“This administration has successfully transformed our semiconductor and advanced electronics manufacturing services industry into a new model focused on technology and innovation,” said Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, Governor of the State of Jalisco. “ASE is a leading global company that represents the future and it has selected Guadalajara, Jalisco for this strategic investment that will bring important projects to our state. It also establishes Jalisco as the first state in Mexico, and indeed Latin America, that will offer OSAT services to major semiconductor companies from across North America.”
Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.
GLOSSARY
OSAT: Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly & Test
About ISE Labs, Inc.
Established in 1983, ISE Labs has a wealth of experience and expertise to serve the semiconductor community. The company’s broad offering of engineering services and products includes test engineering support, production test services, test program development, test interface and reliability test hardware, ESD, burn-in, environmental testing, mechanical testing, and failure analysis.
ISE Labs is a subsidiary of ASE, Inc. The world leader in advanced semiconductor packaging and test services, ASE offers a wide portfolio of technology and solutions for IC test program design, front-end engineering test, wafer probe, wafer bump, substrate design and supply, wafer level packaging, flip chip, system-in-package, and other manufacturing services.
About ASE, Inc.
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (ASE), a member of ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. (NYSE: ASX, TAIEX: 3711) is the leading global provider of semiconductor manufacturing services in packaging and test. Alongside a broad portfolio of established packaging and test technologies, ASE is also delivering innovative VIPack™, advanced packaging, and system-in-package solutions to meet growth momentum across a broad range of end markets, including AI, automotive, 5G, high-performance computing, and more. To learn about our advances in SiP, fanout, MEMS and sensor, flip chip, and 2.5D, 3D and TSV technologies, all ultimately geared towards applications to improve lifestyle and efficiency, please visit: aseglobal.com, or follow us on LinkedIn & X: @aseglobal
Left to Right: Ou Li (ASE), Dina Grijalva (Jalisco Tech Hub Act), Ingu Yin Chang (ASE), Governor elect Pablo Lemus (State of Jalisco), Governor Enrique Alfaro (State of Jalisco), Jeff Thompson (ISE Labs), Andrew Lee (USI), Patricia MacLeod (ASE) (Photo: Business Wire)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 26 people across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, hitting Hamas security officers and an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone, as the daily bombardment continues and the latest efforts toward a ceasefire appear to have stalled.
“Everyone was taking shelter in their tents from the cold, and suddenly we found the world turning upside down. Why, and for what?” said Ziyad Abu Jabal, displaced from Gaza City, after the strike in the seaside humanitarian zone known as Muwasi.
Hundreds of thousands of displaced people are huddling in Muwasi in damp winter weather.
The early morning strike there killed at least 10 people, including three children and two senior Hamas police officers.
Israel’s military said it targeted a senior officer in the Hamas-run police force. It said he was involved in gathering intelligence used by Hamas’ armed wing in attacks on Israeli forces.
Another Israeli strike killed at least eight Palestinians in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. The men were members of local committees that help secure aid convoys, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies. An Associated Press reporter there confirmed the toll.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the strike.
In southern Gaza, Israel’s military killed five policemen in eastern Khan Younis. Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said the strike targeted the head of the Hamas internal security force in southern Gaza.
“Where did we find him? Where else, but of course hiding in the humanitarian zone in Khan Younis, where Gazans are sheltering from this war,” Mencer said.
Israel has repeatedly targeted the police in Gaza during 15 months of war, contributing to a breakdown of law and order in the territory that has made it difficult for humanitarian groups to deliver aid. Israel accuses the militant Hamas group of hijacking aid for its own purposes.
The Hamas-run government had a police force numbering in the tens of thousands that maintained a high degree of public security before the war, while also violently suppressing dissent. Now officers have largely vanished from the streets in many areas.
Meanwhile, three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike that hit a group of people walking in the street in Maghazi in central Gaza. Their bodies were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
The war was sparked by Hamas-led militants’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack into Israel. The militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250. Around 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, at least a third believed to be dead.
Israel’s offensive in retaliation has killed over 45,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the territory's Health Ministry, which says women and children make up more than half the dead. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in their tally.
Israel's military says it only targets militants and blames Hamas for civilian deaths because its fighters operate in dense residential areas. The army says it has killed 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.
The war has caused widespread destruction and displaced some 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, many of them multiple times.
Hunger is widespread. Children, some barefoot or in sandals, waited in line with metal pails or other containers at a food distribution center in Deir al-Balah on Thursday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released from the hospital Thursday after having prostate surgery Sunday.
Doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital said Netanyahu was recuperating well, although he has a period of recovery ahead. Despite doctor’s orders to remain hospitalized, the 75-year-old leader briefly left the facility to participate in a vote in Israel’s parliament on Tuesday.
Netanyahu has vowed to press ahead in Gaza until Hamas is destroyed. But the militant group, while greatly weakened, has repeatedly regrouped in parts of the territory — notably the largely isolated north — after Israeli forces withdraw.
Khaled reported from Cairo.
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Palestinians collect donated food at a food distribution center in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Two Palestinian boys wait to collect donated food at a food distribution center in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
An Israeli soldier weeps in front of a memorial at the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were killed or kidnapped by Hamas, near Kibbutz Re'im in southern Israel, close to the Gaza Strip, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A man mourns over the body of a Palestinian man killed during an Israeli army strike in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. The strike killed at least eight men members of local committees that help secure aid convoys, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians pray over the body before the funeral of a man killed during an Israeli army strike in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A body is carried to the area outside the hospital after an Israeli army strike early Thursday morning in the Muwasi area, in Khan Younis in the central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. According to Palestinian medical officials, the airstrike killed at least 10 people, including three children and two senior police officers, in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians inspect the site of an earlier Israeli army strike in the Muwasi area, in Khan Younis, central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. According to Palestinian medical officials, the airstrike killed at least 10 people, including three children and two senior police officers, in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
An Israeli soldier covers his ears as an artillery gunner fires into the Gaza Strip from a position in southern Israel, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025.(AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Israeli soldiers stand in a bullet-ridden house during a tour for army personnel to observe the damage caused by the Oct. 7 Hamas onslaught at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in Israel, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Palestinian girls collect donated food at a food distribution center in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A destroyed part of Gaza City as seen from southern Israel, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov))
