Austrian Intel Supplier Banks on Hot Niche Market to Ease Chip Pain
- Austria’s AT&S opens $580 million research center at home
- The company is building ABF substrate plant in Malaysia
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Intel Corp. supplier Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG is plotting to become a top provider of a specialty material essential to the high-performance computing chips used in PCs and data centers to fuel growth.
The Austrian company wants to become one of the world’s three biggest makers of so-called Ajinomoto build-up film, or ABF, substrates within the next four years, according to Chief Executive Officer Andreas Gerstenmayer. To get there, AT&S is boosting investments, including in a new 500 million euro ($580 million) R&D center at its headquarters that will join a previously announced $2 billion factory in Malaysia.