Spotlight on MA-tek: a leading supplier of semiconductor materials testing

Spotlight on MA-tek: a leading supplier of semiconductor materials testing

2024-06-18

Everyone is talking about Taiwan’s AI and tech industry after recent big announcements from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. In a much-publicized talk, the Nvidia CEO namedropped lots of the Taiwanese companies that are important partners in the silicon supply chain. But one important firm that he left out was MA-tek. The firm is a leading supplier of semiconductor materials testing. It supports the world’s biggest brands to analyze and check the quality of their products. FTV spoke to the firm’s founder Hsieh Yung-fen to find out more about the role testing plays in Taiwan’s tech ecology.

In a recent talk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted 43 Taiwanese companies on a map of Taiwan – important partners in Taiwan’s tech supply chain. But no quick report could really cover all of the partners of Nvidia. One of them is MA-tek, the biggest provider of semiconductor materials testing and analysis.

Hsieh Yung-fen
MA-tek chair
It would take more than one day to describe Taiwan’s potential. There was a time when, in tech marketing, you would only talk about how great you are. You wouldn’t talk up all your suppliers. Now Jensen Huang has included all his suppliers, which makes it more apparent how technology can be a driver of the whole of society, and make Taiwanese people more confident. He’s really done some good advertising for Taiwan, including with the zongzi, dumplings and the night markets he’s visited. He’s made Taiwan look so warm and friendly; it’s a light and easy way for people from around the world to learn about Taiwan. I think he takes tech marketing, this thing that’s so high-end and so hard to understand, and he makes it bite-size. That’s really quite a skill.

Hsieh Yung-fen founded MA-tek at the age of 43 to provide testing and analysis to the world’s big semiconductor manufacturers. Her clients include TSMC, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, and Meta and the firm has labs over 15 regions in the world.

Chai Huan-hsin
Industry analyst
The whole AI trend is still just on the up and up. Future opportunities will see growth of 100% and higher. The testing industry will play an extremely key role in profits.

Hsieh Yung-fen
MA-tek chair
Several of the big players had come up, and I felt a bit embarrassed to say, “Well actually, all of those companies are our clients at MA-tek. And there’s another three firms behind them which you haven’t mentioned, which I think will come up soon…”

As AI changes the world, testing firms will soon be seeing a fresh wave of opportunities as part of Taiwan’s booming tech industry.

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