Company: AMKR
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001047127-25-000030
Chunk: 15

Company: AMKOR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 15
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 a variety of other packaging equipment, including mold, singulation, ball attach 

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and wafer backgrind, along with numerous other types of manufacturing equipment.  A substantial portion of our packaging equipment base can generally be used and adapted to support the manufacture of many of our packages.

We also purchase wafer bumping equipment to facilitate our flip chip and wafer level packaging services such as 2.5D and HDFO, which is used for HPC and artificial intelligence systems.  Wafer bumping equipment includes sputter and spin coaters, electroplating equipment, reflow ovens and other types of equipment.  This equipment tends to have longer lead times for delivery and installation than other packaging equipment and is sold in relatively larger increments of capacity.

The primary equipment used in the testing process includes testers, handlers and probers.  Handlers are used to transfer individual or small groups of packaged ICs to a tester.  Test equipment is generally a more capital-intensive activity than packaging, and test equipment tends to have longer delivery lead times than most types of packaging equipment.  We focus our capital expenditures on standardized tester platforms to maximize test equipment utilization where possible.  In some cases, our customers will consign test equipment to us.  

GOVERNMENTAL REGULATIONS 

As a public company with global operations, we are subject to various federal, state, local and foreign laws, and our products and services are governed by a number of rules and regulations.  These regulations, which differ among jurisdictions, include financial and other external reporting disclosure rules, accounting standards and environmental, corporate governance, intellectual property, tax, trade, antitrust, employment, immigration and travel, privacy and anti-corruption laws.  Costs and accruals incurred to comply with these governmental regulations are presently not material to our capital expenditures, results of operations and competitive position.  Although there is no assurance that existing or future government laws applicable to our operations, services or products will not have a material adverse effect on our capital expenditures, results of operations and competitive position, we do not currently anticipate material expenditures for compliance with government regulations. 

Environmental Matters

We use chemicals and materials in the semiconductor packaging process that generate byproducts such as wastewater, solid waste and flue gas.  For example, water used for rinsing or cooling wafers being sawed or used in the etching or solder deposition process produces wastewater.  Scrap from metal lead-frame or substrate processing or excessive molding resin produces solid waste.  Emissions from solvents