On June 25, Kulicke and Soffa rose 5.45% in after-hours trading, trading at $126.92 USD/share, with turnover of $5.16 million. The stock reached a 52-week high of $129.65 during the regular session, reflecting strong investor demand.

The move was supported by a broad rally across the semiconductor equipment sector and growing market attention toward KLIC's role in AI-driven advanced packaging. Reports earlier this week indicated that Zhongji Innolight had procured KLIC semiconductor equipment for advanced packaging applications, underscoring the company's expanding relevance in thermocompression bonding and hybrid bonding technologies critical to HBM and advanced GPU manufacturing.

Within the Semiconductor Equipment sector, stocks rallied broadly. Among individual names, Lam Research rose 6.3%, Applied Materials rose 5.78%, KLA-Tencor rose 4.8%, ASML rose 4.04%, and Teradyne rose 3.57%. KLIC's positioning as a key infrastructure provider in AI advanced packaging continues to attract investor interest as demand for high-bandwidth memory and next-generation chip interconnects accelerates.

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