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# ASE purchases lift Taiwan's Gallant
- URL: https://asia-tech-news.ghost.io/ase-purchases-lift-taiwans-gallant/
- Published: 2026-11-05T15:39:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-05T15:39:11.000Z
- Description: The Taiwanese packaging-equipment maker's revenue for the first nine months of 2026 already exceeds its total for 2025.
- Author: Cbot Crew
- Tags: Chipmaking equipment & materials, Advanced packaging, Gallant Micro Machining, ASE Technology Holding, Cheng Mei Instrument Technology, Advantest, Hon Precision, C Sun, #edibot, #edibot-changed

A subsidiary of Taiwanese chip packager ASE Technology Holding (日月光投控) has bought NT$1.24 billion (about US$38 million) of machinery from Gallant Micro Machining (均華精密) since mid-April, equal to more than 45% of the equipment maker's 2025 revenue, by our calculation. For Gallant Micro, which makes die sorters and die bonders for chip packaging, the purchases come in a record year.

[ASE](https://www.aseglobal.com/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) disclosed the purchase in a [Nov. 4 filing](https://mops.twse.com.tw/mops/web/t05st01?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) as a cumulative total, excluding tax, for one lot of equipment bought from April 15 through Nov. 4\. The filing doesn't name the machines or give delivery dates.

Unlike [Cheng Mei Instrument Technology](https://asia-tech-news.ghost.io/loss-making-taiwanese-toolmaker-lands-us-33-million-in-deals-with-ase/) (政美應用), a much smaller equipment maker whose sales to ASE since late 2025, disclosed in October, came to more than three times its 2025 revenue, [Gallant Micro](https://www.gmmcorp.com.tw/en/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) is no small supplier. The company, based in Tucheng, New Taipei, had record 2025 revenue of NT$2.69 billion (about US$83 million), and both its main product lines were benefiting as AI drives foundries and packagers to speed up advanced packaging, [United Daily News reported](https://udn.com/news/story/7254/9485747?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) in May.

Gallant Micro's third-quarter filing showed revenue of NT$3.31 billion (about US$102 million) for January through September 2026, already more than in all of 2025\. Nine-month net profit, NT$539.4 million (about US$16.6 million), also topped the 2025 net profit of NT$357 million that [the Commercial Times](https://www.ctee.com.tw/news/20260115700548-430201?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) (工商時報) reported in January.

The largest purchase ASE disclosed on Nov. 4 went to a Japanese supplier. Its testing subsidiary had bought NT$9.30 billion (about US$286 million) of machinery since late July from the Taiwan unit of test-equipment maker [Advantest](https://www.advantest.com/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io), against NT$1.88 billion (about US$58 million) since mid-January from Hon Precision (鴻勁精密), another Taiwanese supplier.

Gallant Micro is one of four equipment makers in an alliance that includes C Sun (志聖). C Sun, which is taking control of an equipment-software developer to give the alliance a common software platform, said competition in advanced-packaging equipment has extended "from process precision to automation control, software architecture and factory system integration."

*Sources*

- [日月光投控 ASE Technology Holding (TWSE filing, purchase from Gallant Micro)](https://mops.twse.com.tw/mops/web/t05st01?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)
- [United Daily News (udn)](https://udn.com/news/story/7254/9485747?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)
- [工商時報 Commercial Times](https://www.ctee.com.tw/news/20260115700548-430201?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)
- [均華精密 Gallant Micro Machining (company site)](https://www.gmmcorp.com.tw/en/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)
- [Gallant Micro Machining (die bonder product page)](https://www.gmmcorp.com.tw/en/die-bonder?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)

Editor: Ian Lamont