Advanced Packaging in the AI Data Center Era: Inside MediaTek’s 2.5D & 3D Innovations
The enterprise data center is at an inflection point and the race for custom silicon is intensifying. MediaTek — long known as a smartphone processor leader — has assembled one of the most compelling custom ASIC data center solutions in the industry, and here's why cloud architects and enterprise decision-makers should be paying close attention. For years, the enterprise conversation around data center acceleration has centered on three names: NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel. But beneath that headline layer, a structural shift is underway. Hyperscalers including Meta, Microsoft, and Google have long been building their own ASIC hardware data center solutions to gain workload-specific efficiency that non-custom silicon cannot match. And now – in 2026 – the organizations enabling those custom chips — companies like MediaTek — are stepping fully into the spotlight. MediaTek's 2026 Analyst Day made the company's ambitions explicit – a $1 billion data center revenue target for 2026, dee...