By Wen-Yee Lee
TAIPEI, May 4 (Reuters) – Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek said it has appointed former TSMC executive Douglas Yu as a part-time adviser as it steps up advanced packaging work and expands into the AI chip market.
Here are a few details:
• Yu joined TSMC in 1994 and retired in 2025, holding a range of roles in backend research and development. He played a key part in developing TSMC’s advanced packaging technologies, including its CoWoS (Chip on Wafer on Substrate).
• CoWoS is a key chip packaging technology widely used in artificial intelligence chips, including Nvidia chips.
• “We look forward to leveraging his extensive industry experience and technical expertise to support the company’s exploration and roadmap planning for future advanced packaging technologies, as well as to guide our R&D and investment strategy in advanced packaging-related products and technologies associated with TSMC,” MediaTek said in a statement on Saturday.
• TSMC’s CoWoS capacity has been in high demand, with customers such as Nvidia and cloud service providers scrambling to secure capacity.
• Last week, MediaTek said it expects to generate multiple billions of dollars in revenue from its AI accelerator ASIC chips by 2027.
(Reporting by Wen-Yee Lee; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)
