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ASE purchases lift Taiwan's Gallant

The Taiwanese packaging-equipment maker's revenue for the first nine months of 2026 already exceeds its total for 2025.

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Bar chart of the machinery purchases ASE disclosed on Nov. 4, 2026, from three suppliers, Advantest's Taiwan unit, Hon Precision and Gallant Micro Machining.
Source: ASE Technology Holding filings

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 disclosed the purchase in a Nov. 4 filing 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 (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 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 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 (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, 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."

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