# Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek says it supports both TSMC's and Intel's advanced packaging technologies.

*semiconductor · news · 2026-05-29 · The Star*

## Key points

- MediaTek now supports both TSMC's CoWoS and Intel's EMIB packaging technologies for customers.
- Intel’s EMIB is being considered for custom AI chips MediaTek is designing for Google.
- MediaTek has multiple test chips on TSMC's upcoming A14 process, targeting 2028 volume production.
- MediaTek doubled its 2026 data center revenue forecast to $2 billion and aims for 10-15% of the custom AI ASIC market.

TAIPEI, May ⁠29 (Reuters) - Taiwan chip designer MediaTek said on Friday it ⁠supports both TSMC's and Intel's advanced packaging technologies, allowing customers ‌to choose between the two approaches. "We're one of the few custom silicon providers that support both (TSMC's) CoWoS and (Intel's) EMIB. We let our customers choose," MediaTek Senior ​Vice President Vince Hu told reporters in ⁠Taipei. CoWoS, or Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate, is ⁠TSMC's advanced packaging technology widely used for artificial intelligence chips, including those ⁠designed ‌by Nvidia. EMIB, or Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge, is Intel's competing advanced packaging technology. Intel’s EMIB advanced packaging technology ⁠is being considered for custom AI chips MediaTek ​is designing for ‌Alphabet’s Google, according to two people familiar with the matter. MediaTek ⁠has not ​publicly identified Google as a customer for its custom chip business and did not comment on whether it may use EMIB technology for ⁠chips for Google. MediaTek, which has been expanding ​its custom AI chip business beyond its traditional mobile chip operations, reiterated that it had doubled its forecast for 2026 data center sector ⁠revenue to $2 billion. The company estimates the total addressable market (TAM) for custom AI Application-Specific Integrated Circuits could reach $70 billion to $80 billion in 2027 and it targets a 10% to 15% share of that ​market. MediaTek also said it has multiple test ⁠chips on TSMC's A14 process, the chipmaker's next-generation manufacturing technology expected to ​enter volume production in 2028. The company ‌also said it plans to use ​TSMC's Arizona fabs, including for chips manufactured on 4-nanometre and 3-nanometre technologies. (Reporting by Wen-Yee Lee; Editing by Susan Fenton)

**Companies:** TSMC, Intel, Alphabet, MediaTek
**Countries:** Taiwan, United States

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