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21 Aug 2026, 9:35 PM	Tom's Hardware	3.5	LG enters chip packaging arena with Laser Direct Imaging machine, as TSMC's CoWoS remains constrained — maskless machine is designed to pattern fine interconnects, trading resolution for higher throughput LG Electronics Production Technology Institute signed a contract with an OSAT to supply a maskless Laser Direct Imaging (LDI) lithography tool for patterning fine metal interconnects in advanced semiconductor packaging. The highest-resolution version produces 1.5-μm line-and-space patterns, trading resolution for higher throughput, as TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging capacity remains constrained. Why: CoWoS capacity constraints directly affect GPU and AI accelerator supply timelines and pricing; if alternative packaging tools from new entrants like LG ease OSAT bottlenecks, AI hardware availability could improve over the medium term. For now, this is a single contract with no shipping product, so no immediate action is warranted. semiconductors advanced-packaging ai-infrastructure

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21 Aug 2026, 9:35 PM

Tom's Hardware

3.5

LG enters chip packaging arena with Laser Direct Imaging machine, as TSMC's CoWoS remains constrained — maskless machine is designed to pattern fine interconnects, trading resolution for higher throughput

LG Electronics Production Technology Institute signed a contract with an OSAT to supply a maskless Laser Direct Imaging (LDI) lithography tool for patterning fine metal interconnects in advanced semiconductor packaging. The highest-resolution version produces 1.5-μm line-and-space patterns, trading resolution for higher throughput, as TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging capacity remains constrained.

Why: CoWoS capacity constraints directly affect GPU and AI accelerator supply timelines and pricing; if alternative packaging tools from new entrants like LG ease OSAT bottlenecks, AI hardware availability could improve over the medium term. For now, this is a single contract with no shipping product, so no immediate action is warranted.