# KULICKE & SOFFA INDUSTRIES INC

Summary updated: 2026-10-02T16:47:40.562843Z
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## Overview

Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. (K&S) develops, manufactures and sells semiconductor assembly equipment and tools, and provides related services, maintenance, repairs and upgrades. Its products include ball and wedge bonders, advanced solutions, and aftermarket products and services, serving semiconductor and electronics manufacturers across automotive, computing, industrial, memory and communications markets. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P63532951)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P118732801)

K&S has a worldwide operating presence, including corporate headquarters in Singapore and locations in the United States, China and Taiwan. [2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P118732801)[3](https://www.kns.com/Contact)[4](https://www.kns.com/zh-cn/contact) The company describes its purpose as “To innovate for a smarter, more connected future.” [5](https://www.kns.com/Company)

For FY2025, K&S reported revenue of $654.081 million and had 2,551 full-time employees and 41 temporary workers worldwide as of October 4, 2025. [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T2777557)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P15427957)
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## Products & services

Kulicke & Soffa’s products include semiconductor wire-bonding equipment. Its ball-bonding line includes RAPID Pro, a smart bonder, and ATPremier PLUS and ATPremier MEM PLUS, which support wafer-level bonding for applications including MEMS, sensors and advanced memory. The company’s wedge-bonding products include Asterion hybrid wedge bonders and Asterion-PW ultrasonic pin welders; Asterion is specified for bondable areas up to 300 × 300 mm and ±3 μm bond-placement repeatability. [8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P118931172)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P114765979)[10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P64020689)[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P113557903)[12](https://www.kns.com/products-services/products/ball-bonder/rapid-pro)[13](https://www.kns.com/products-services/products/wedge-bonder/asterion) Its ASTERION-TW system is designed for ultrasonic terminal welding, with copper terminals up to 2 mm thick, a 300 × 300 mm work area, and ±40 μm weld-placement repeatability. [14](https://investor.kns.com/2026-03-24-Kulicke-Soffa-Launches-ASTERION-TM-TW-Innovative-Ultrasonic-System-Expands-Power-Assembly-Portfolio)

For advanced packaging, K&S offers APAMA, APAMA Plus and APTURA platforms for applications such as 2.5D/3D IC packaging and heterogeneous integration. APAMA Plus supports thermocompression processes including TC-NCF, TC-NCP and TC-CUF; APTURA accommodates wafers, substrates and panels starting at 310 × 310 mm. [15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P68601202)[16](https://www.kns.com/products-services/products/advanced-packaging/apama-plus-series)[17](https://www.kns.com/products-services/products/advanced-packaging/aptura) Its dispensing systems include ACELON, promoted for semiconductor, SMT and automotive assembly; published capabilities include sub-20 μm wet accuracy, automatic calibration and optional dual valves. [18](https://investor.kns.com/2025-09-09-Kulicke-Soffa-Unveils-ACELON-TM-A-Revolutionary-High-Performance-Dispenser-for-Advanced-Manufacturing-Applications)[19](https://www.kns.com/products-services/products/advanced-dispensing)

Services include equipment installation support, maintenance, repair, refurbishment, upgrades and spare parts, as well as service for K&S and other manufacturers’ equipment. [20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P43912591)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P20531096)[22](https://www.kns.com/products-services/repair-refurbishment-and-spares-program)[23](https://www.kns.com/products-services/ks-care) In FY2025, reported revenue mix was Ball Bonding Equipment 44.8%, Wedge Bonding Equipment 16.9%, Advanced Solutions 11.1%, APS 23.9% and All Others 3.3%; these are reported business categories, not percentages for individual products. [24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T1538069) The latest interim reporting available as of October 2, 2026, showed nine-month FY2026 revenue mix of 64.3% Ball Bonding Equipment, 7.8% Wedge Bonding Equipment, 9.2% Advanced Solutions, 14.2% APS and 4.5% All Others. [25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16904708)
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## Geographic presence

In FY2025, ended October 4, 2025, Kulicke & Soffa’s sales to unaffiliated customers by destination were led by China at $363.6 million (55.6% of total), followed by the United States at $62.2 million (9.5%), Taiwan at $55.0 million (8.4%), Malaysia at $45.8 million (7.0%), and South Korea at $27.5 million (4.2%). The remaining reported destinations were Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan and other countries. Overall, 90.5% of net revenue was shipped to locations outside the United States, primarily in Asia-Pacific; 53.5% was shipped to customers headquartered in China. [26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T1272400)[27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P38816984)

At FY2025 year-end, long-lived assets were concentrated in Singapore ($37.3 million), the United States ($28.5 million) and China ($15.5 million), with additional assets in Israel and other countries. Major facilities included Singapore (Serangoon; corporate headquarters, manufacturing, technology, sales and service), China (Suzhou; manufacturing, technology and support), the Netherlands (Eindhoven; manufacturing, technology, sales and service), the United States (Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, and Santa Ana, California), Israel (Haifa), and Taiwan (Taipei). The company also lists sales, customer-support, service or administrative offices in Germany, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines. [28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T5453518)[29](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T1966474)[30](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P118503053)[31](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P19914869) The company’s contact page lists its Singapore and Fort Washington addresses. [3](https://www.kns.com/Contact)
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## Business segments

Kulicke & Soffa reports four product- and service-based segments, rather than geographic segments. In fiscal 2025, Ball Bonding Equipment generated 44.8% of revenue and covers ball-bonding and wafer-level bonding equipment; Wedge Bonding Equipment generated 16.9% and covers wedge and wedge-related bonding equipment; Advanced Solutions generated 11.1% and includes certain advanced-display, die-attach and thermocompression systems and solutions; and Aftermarket Products and Services (APS) generated 23.9% from tools, spares and services for K&S equipment. [32](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P75059301)[33](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P68077426)[34](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P64162478)[35](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P90566913)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T1538069)

The remaining 3.3% was reported as “All Others,” a reconciling category rather than a reportable segment, comprising certain advanced-display, advanced-dispense, electronics-assembly and die-attach systems and solutions. These percentages are shares of fiscal 2025 consolidated net revenue, which totaled $654.1 million; the four reportable segments together contributed 96.7%. [36](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P107000733)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T1538069) The latest available interim report, for the quarter ended July 4, 2026, continued to present the same four reportable segments. [37](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16904695)
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## Company history

Kulicke & Soffa began in 1951, when Frederick W. Kulicke Jr. and Albert Soffa formed the partnership that became the company [5](https://www.kns.com/Company)[38](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P36102251). It introduced its first wire bonder in 1956, the year it was incorporated, and developed a digitally controlled, fully automatic wire bonder in 1976 [5](https://www.kns.com/Company). The company held an OTC IPO in 1961 and became one of the first companies listed on Nasdaq in 1971 [39](https://investor.kns.com/FAQs).

From the 1990s onward, K&S broadened its technologies and geographic reach, including progress toward flip-chip technology in 1996 and expansion into China in 2003 [5](https://www.kns.com/Company). It expanded through the acquisitions of Alphasem in 2006 and Orthodyne in 2008 [40](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56978/000119312506228362/d8k.htm)[41](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56978/000119312508207878/d8k.htm). In 2021, it acquired Uniqarta and its intellectual property, and in 2023 it completed the acquisition of AJA, adding high-precision micro-dispensing capabilities [42](https://investor.kns.com/2021-02-03-Kulicke-Soffa-Further-Extends-Mini-and-Micro-LED-Technology-Through-Strategic-Acquisition-of-Uniqarta)[43](https://investor.kns.com/2023-02-23-Kulicke-Soffa-Expanding-Competencies-and-Market-Presence).
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