Materials Analysis Technology Inc (MA-tek, 閎康), a semiconductor materials analysis service provider, yesterday said its revenue soared about 21 percent annually last year to a historic high, thanks to strong customer demand for its analysis services from Taiwan and Japan.
Revenue expanded to NT$4.81 billion (US$155.2 million) last year, compared with NT$3.97 billion in 2022, after registering a record-high monthly revenue of NT$443 million last month, the company said in a statement.
Material Analysis attributed the robust growth momentum to unresolved geopolitical tensions, which are reshaping the global supply chain of the semiconductor industry, giving Japan a chance to return to play an important role in the industry.
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Japan is striving to boost domestic semiconductor production, with an aim to treble its domestic chip production to ￥15 trillion (US$109.77 billion) by 2030, from ￥5 trillion in 2020, the Hsinchu-based company said.
That trend has helped fuel Material Analysis’ revenue growth from Japan, with its first lab in Nagoya to contribute about 8 percent to the company’s overall revenue last year after four years of establishment, it said.
The company expected the lab’s revenue contribution to increase further this year, it said.
The company also expects its second Japanese lab to contribute significant revenue this quarter as it has received orders from multiple semiconductor customers.
The lab was launched in September last year in Kumamoto, where its major customer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) is to launch its first Japanese fab next month.
Materials Analysis usually sets up labs close to its customers’ plants to ensure immediate service and support with cost efficiency.
In Taiwan, Materials Analysis also expects revenue growth this year, benefiting from customer’s migration to advanced 2-nanometer process technology.
As customers adopt new nanosheet transistor structures, Materials Analysis expects that the technology complexity and challenges would require more materials analysis to help boost yield rate.
Increasing demand from Taiwan and Japan has reinforced Material Analysis’s confidence that revenue this year would outpace last year’s 20 percent expansion. The company operates 25 labs in Taiwan, China and Japan.
Taiwan made up more than half of the company’s revenue, followed by China. Materials Analysis has planned to spend 85 percent of its capital spending on overseas capacity expansion last year.
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