Jason Chang & Richard Chang found ASE; first factory in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Milestones & Awards
Milestones
1980s
ASE Inc. lists on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
1990s
Enters the test market by acquiring ASE Test Limited.
Packaging & test facilities established in Penang, Malaysia.
ASE Test trades on TWSE via TDR; in-house flip-chip assembly & test established.
Lists on NASDAQ (first Taiwan company with a US offering); acquires Motorola Chungli & Paju; controlling interest in USI.
2000s
ASE Inc. trades on NYSE via ADR; volume flip-chip production begins.
ChungLi Intelligent Industrial Park opens; 300mm wafer bumping facility opens.
Becomes global #1 in IC assembly, test & materials (OSAT).
Acquires NEC's packaging/test in Takahata, Japan; substrate & module facilities in Shanghai.
Starts volume Wafer Level CSP (WLCSP) production.
Acquires Aimhigh facility in Weihai, China (discrete IC packaging).
Starts volume copper wire bonding across sites.
2010s
Acquires EEMS Test Singapore; full acquisition of USI; ASE Kunshan begins operation.
ASE K12 opens — first facility with both EEWH Diamond & LEED Platinum.
Acquires Wuxi Tongzhi Microelectronics from Toshiba.
ASE + TDK form ASE Embedded Electronics (SESUB); water-recycling plant opens at Nantze.
ASE and SPIL agree to form a joint holding company.
ASE Technology Holding takes 100% of ASE & SPIL; lists as TWSE 3711 · NYSE ASX.
2020s
PRC Anti-Monopoly Bureau lifts restrictive conditions; ASE establishes its first 5G mmWave smart factory.
Awards & recognition
ASE is recognized as a top assembly and test service provider by the Fabless Semiconductor Association, and wins the Outstanding Award in the Ministry of Economic Affairs' Industrial Technology Development Awards in Taiwan.
Forbes names ASE to its Asia Fabulous 50, rating it among the best of Asia Pacific's largest publicly traded companies.
Jason Chang receives the SEMI Award for advancing copper wire bonding, recognizing ASE's impact in bringing cost-effective, high-performance manufacturing to the market.
ASE wins the Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Award for the ASE30 Environmental Conservation Fund and its commitment to environmental protection in Taiwan. At the same year's Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Awards (TCSA), it takes the Top 50 Corporate Sustainability Report, Climate Leadership, and Supply Chain Sustainability Leadership awards.
Chairman and founder Jason Chang receives the Dale Carnegie Leadership Award, recognizing ASE's focus on developing people, innovation and organizational creativity under his leadership.
Thomson Reuters names ASE a Top 100 Global Technology Leader in the program's inaugural year, recognizing the industry's most operationally sound and financially successful companies. ASE is also the only Taiwanese company on CDP's Climate A List in both 2016 and 2018.
ASE tops the Semiconductors and Semiconductor Equipment list on the 2022 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, the latest in a run of strong sustainability rankings going back to 2016.
ASE's bumping factory is inducted into the World Economic Forum's Global Lighthouse Network, which recognizes the world's most advanced manufacturing sites.