AICL, does a large part of Amkor's chip packaging and testing.

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It is home to the world's No. 2 and No. 3 chip-packaging and chip-testing companies, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision (SPIL) .

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Worldwide, independent chip-packaging revenues are expected to grow by about 16% a year.

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The upcoming vote pits the newly reconstituted board and turnaround management team at Tessera, a technology development and licensing firm that invented chip-scale packaging (CSP) technology for improved semiconductor performance in the 1990s and is now blazing a trail in advanced semiconductor interconnect technology, against a board takeover attempt by the activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP.

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It has a full suite of process design kits, a range of multicore graphics solutions, other libraries and intellectual property (IP) suites available to chip designers, and a variety of packaging options.

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