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AT&S pours up to €2bn into Malaysia and China to ride the AI chip boom

AT&S, the Austrian maker of printed circuit boards and chip substrates, will spend between €1.5bn and €2bn expanding capacity for the high-end IC substrates that AI and high-performance computing chips are built on, the company said. The plan spans its plant at Kulim in Malaysia and its facility at Chongqing in China, and it is anchored by an agreement with AMD and a second, unnamed technology company.

Substrates are the unglamorous layer of the AI supply chain, the engineered base that carries a processor and connects it to the board around it. As chips grow more complex, the substrate becomes harder to make and more valuable, which is why a specialist supplier is willing to commit up to €2bn to producing more of it. The capacity is aimed squarely at the same AI and HPC demand driving everything further up the chain.

In Malaysia, the money will install additional...

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TSMC breaks ground on more advanced packaging fabs in Chiayi

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South Korea flags a record $530bn budget, paid for by the AI chip boom

South Korea will draw up record budget spending of more than 800 trillion won ($530.97bn) for fiscal 2027, supported by stronger tax revenues from the booming AI chip industry, the government said on Monday. It is the clearest sign yet that Seoul intends to spend the semiconductor windfall rather

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Samsung pulls its first Yongin chip plant forward to 2029

TSMC breaks ground on more advanced packaging fabs in Chiayi

TCS bets on 8,900 AI deployment engineers to defend India’s IT services model

South Korea flags a record $530bn budget, paid for by the AI chip boom