Material analysis firm Msscorps Co (汎銓科技) yesterday said that silicon photonics chip analysis and testing is expected to account for more than 15 percent of the company’s revenue next year, compared with 10 percent this year.
The company helps customers analyze silicon photonics materials and conducts material and failure analyses at its facilities at Tai Yuen Hi-Tech Industrial Park (台元科技園區) in Hsinchu County’s Jhubei City (竹北).
Its major customers include Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (台積電) and Nvidia Corp.
Photo: Lisa Wang, Taipei Times
“Silicon photonics might be a new term for most companies, but it is no stranger to Msscorps,” company chairman Gino Leou (柳紀綸) told a news conference in Taipei, adding that Msscorps started to work with major customers four years ago to develop silicon photonics-related technologies.
The company expects the revenue contribution from the silicon photonics business to increase gradually before customers ramp up volume production significantly in 2026, he said.
Msscorps also collaborated with customers in developing analysis methods used in atomic chip manufacturing technology three years ago, the company said.
ASML Holdings NV adopted the company’s material analysis of photo resistance in its new high-numerical aperture (NA) extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) tools early this year, Leou said.
The first high-NA EUV machine is expected to arrive in Taiwan next month, he said.
To cope with customer demand for material and failure analyses for advanced technologies, Msscorps purchased NT$1.5 billion (US$46.74 million) of advanced equipment and hired 120 workers, adding to its existing 500 employees, Leou said.
Heavy capital expenditure weighs on the company’s profitability this year, given higher depreciation and operating costs, he said.
“The company expects to report a lackluster bottom line this year, before a pickup next year, followed by even stronger performance after that,” Leou said. “But annual revenue growth would be about 10 percent.”
The company reported NT$40.74 million in profit for last quarter after posting losses of NT$9.56 million in the first quarter.
Revenue in the first eight months of the year rose 4 percent year-on-year to NT$1.3 billion.
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