06/11/2026
Semiconductors are becoming more fundamental to everything we do, and that is changing where value is created in the supply chain. Kevin Engel, Amkor Technology, Inc.’s president and CEO, said the AI data center build-out is “going to be going on for years,” a reminder that advanced packaging is now central to performance, efficiency and supply resilience.
In his interview with Tiernan Ray in The Technology Letter, Kevin Engel pointed to Amkor’s $7 billion investment in a new Arizona facility as part of a broader shift toward regional diversity and closer-to-customer capacity. For the industry, the takeaway is clear: the next wave of growth will depend not just on chip design, but on the packaging and manufacturing infrastructure that brings increasingly complex devices to life.
Read the full interview: https://www.thetechnologyletter.com/the-posts/amkor-ceo-semiconductors-are-going-to-continue-to-thrive
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