Market Monitor

Semiconductor Back End Equipment Market Monitor

Jul 2026

TCB paused, Hybrid and Ball Bonding stepped up: Back-End Equipment revenue rose +6.2% QoQ in Q1-2026 on broadening Advanced Packaging demand.

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Scope

Depth analysis: Equipment

Technology:

Blade Dicing
Laser Dicing
Plasma Dicing
TCB Equipment
Hybrid Bonding
Flip Chip Bonding
Die/Wire Bonding
Molding
And more…

Back-end equipment revenue increased by 6.2% QoQ from Q4 2025 to Q1 2026 and is projected to increase further by 3.8% QoQ in Q2 2026 as growth is led by AI, HBM and Advanced Packaging while mainstream assembly recovers more gradually.

DISCO leads Back-End Equipment, with ASMPT, BESI, Kulicke & Soffa, and Hanmi driving the next tier, while ACCRETECH, KLA, Nova, Hanwha, SEMES, TOWA and others sharpen competition across dicing, bonding, metrology, and packaging equipment.

Vendor momentum is strongest where portfolios align with advanced packaging. TCB stays the near-term volume anchor for HBM and reaccelerates into HBM4 after a brief Q1 pause, while hybrid bonding is the main upside lever for chiplets, 3D SoC and CPO. Ball bonding adds new strength on data center and memory demand, and thinning, dicing and metrology gain with tighter package complexity. On the other hand, mature tool exposure limits upside.

What's new

This is the eighth edition of Back-End equipment market monitor by Yole Group. This monitor tracks the market for equipment used in semiconductor assembly and packaging processes on a quarterly basis and ties up with other equipment market monitors at Yole (WFE, Test and Subsystems) to provide a complete picture of the semiconductor equipment ecosystem.

We have raised our semiconductor device revenue outlook, as capital expenditure acceleration is now expected to extend through 2H26, 1H27, and into 2028, rather than tapering off after 1H27 as previously modelled.
This stronger backdrop lifted our Back-End Equipment forecast as well, with the 2026–31 CAGR revised upward and the expected digestion year pushed out from 2028 to 2029.
We saw Q1-26 growth come in ahead of our prior expectations, though the drivers broadened beyond TCB into hybrid bonding, ball bonding, and wafer preparation equipment, while TCB paused briefly at the Korean suppliers before resuming.
We have updated our models based on latest financial information of Back-End equipment vendors along with the information gathered from the surveys conducted within the industry, conducted interviews and aggregated market forecast at semiconductor device and package level.

Monitor's objectives

Provide historical data, current fast changing quarterly data, market metrics and forecasts for semiconductor Back End Equipment vendor revenue from equipment shipments as well as revenue generated from service and support.
Update data quarterly with detailed semiconductor Back End Equipment market analysis for related back-end process technology.
Related to process technology, we analyze 36 unique segments related to Back End Equipment.
Provide historical and current year’s market shares for semiconductor Back End Equipment vendors.
We account more than 79 vendors (including acquired and merged) with a detailed breakdown of their revenues by process technology.
Analyze current semiconductor Back End Equipment market state in terms of semiconductor chip revenue, capital expenditure (CapEx) and geopolitics.
Considering the above, to forecast near and long-term Back End equipment revenue evolution.

Back End Equipment dynamics with market shares and equipment technologies

The Semiconductor Back-End Equipment Market Monitor tracks the market for equipment used in semiconductor assembly and packaging processes on a quarterly basis. These include but not limited to equipment for Dicing and Grinding along with interconnect equipment related to Die Attach and Wire Bonding to the final packaging equipment like encapsulation and molding relating to assembly and associated die level Metrology & Inspection equipment.

These equipment are the backbone of all semiconductor ecosystems, enabling subsequent chip technology advancements and the ongoing digital transformation in society. With the rising demand for advanced packaging solutions, such as 2.5D/3D packaging and TCB/ Hybrid Bonding, the market is evolving to support cutting edge applications in AI and high-performance computing. At the same time, traditional packaging methods remain essential for various semiconductor applications, ensuring a balance between innovation and established techniques, and driving efficiency across multiple industries.

The monitor tracks the Back End equipment vendor revenues in relation to semiconductor chipmaker revenue and CapEx. It tracks the evolution of Back End equipment revenues and market shares over 2016-2025, estimates of 2026 market share, the current quarterly data until 2028, and provides insight into the 2026-2031 revenue forecast. Furthermore, the monitor provides the Back End equipment revenue broken down into revenue and service and support revenue which is further broken down by Back End process technology and vendor market share.

Growth rotated across advanced packaging as TCB digested HBM3E ahead of the HBM4 ramp

Back-end equipment carried its momentum into Q1-2026, but the quarter marked a shift in the internal balance of the cycle rather than a change in direction. For the first time in this upturn, growth came from a rotating set of technologies instead of a single advanced packaging engine, with incremental demand spreading beyond TCB into hybrid bonding, ball bonding, and wafer preparation, while memory and HPC remained the strongest parts of the cycle entering the year.

TCB stepped back at the Korean suppliers as HBM3E attach capacity was largely filled while HBM4 orders were still being placed. Hanmi reported a soft quarter before securing a fresh SK Hynix HBM4 bonder order that should restore its momentum, and Hanwha followed the same pattern with delayed HBM4 orders expected to resume in the second half. ASMPT avoided the air pocket as its C2S position in logic held as the process of record, keeping its TCB revenue broadly flat. Hybrid Bonding moved another step closer to meaningful deployment as unit orders more than doubled and adoption widened across logic, memory, and co-packaged optics, supported by BESI's cluster collaboration with Applied Materials. Flip chip stayed relevant where GPUs, networking, and mainstream HPC still favour FC attach, while wafer thinning, dicing, cleaning, and metrology continued to benefit from larger die, taller HBM stacks, and tighter defect budgets, keeping DISCO central to that cycle.

Traditional packaging kept improving but stayed the follower rather than the driver. Die bonders continued to gain through broader semiconductor normalization rather than AI-linked capex, ball bonders led the traditional recovery with K&S the clearest beneficiary as vertical wire for stacked DRAM extends that pull into 2027, while wedge bonders remained the laggard on only a partial recovery in automotive and industrial demand.