SCHMID wins equipment order for glass core substrate plant in South Asia
German equipment maker SCHMID Group has received an order for wet-process equipment for a new glass core substrate plant in South Asia. The customer is a US company specialising in glass-based advanced packaging, which is now moving its technology from pilot production to industrial scale.
According to the customer’s own public announcements, the plant will be South Asia’s first advanced packaging site built around glass substrates and 3D heterogeneous integration, according to a press release from SCHMID. Once fully ramped up, it is designed to produce around 70,000 glass panels a year, as well as glass interposers and 3D integration modules for AI, data centres, 5G and aerospace and defence.
SCHMID will supply equipment for critical wet-process steps, which the company says are decisive for yield, reliability and cost. The order will be booked in the fourth quarter of 2026.
Glass cores are seen as a possible successor to the organic cores used in today’s IC substrates. They are flatter and more dimensionally stable, warp less in large package formats and allow finer line and space structures, which matters as AI accelerators and chiplet designs require ever larger packages.
“Manufacturing them at scale requires processes that deliver precise through-glass vias, reliable metallization and stable yields on large panel formats. This is exactly where our process know-how and our equipment platforms make the difference,” says Roland Rettenmeier, Chief Sales Officer of SCHMID Group.
SCHMID names neither the customer nor the country, and does not disclose the value of the order.
