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Tien Wu

Director & Chief Operating Officer (CEO, ASE Inc.), ASE Technology Holding

Search every verified Tien Wu interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Tien Wu, Director and Chief Operating Officer of ASE Inc., discussed the shifting paradigm in the semiconductor industry during a series of interviews with Synopsys Chairman and CEO Aart de Geus. Wu argued that the era of a single powerful microprocessor and operating system is becoming economically unviable, and that the industry will move toward a more disintegrated model involving system-in-package (SiP) and interposer technologies. He stated that the cost of creating "mega" chips is a "dead end" and that the industry collectively needs to adopt a basic processor and operating system, with IO chips and graphics chips re-emerging. Wu expressed no concern about TSMC entering the packaging space, saying they "ought to take the driver's seat" and demonstrate the baseline for 3D technology. Wu also shared personal reflections on the industry's evolution and his own career. He noted that as a content creator, he uses only about 15 percent of his PC's processing speed and is frustrated by bandwidth limitations, predicting a shift toward low-power, real-time communication. He recounted a conversation with his daughter, a material science student at Carnegie Mellon, about her interest in social service, and described a proposal to his chairman to sponsor 100 orphanages in China, drawing on his own background as the son of soldiers who benefited from education funded by the U.S. government.

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