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Nvidia Effectively Monopolizes TSMC CoWoS Advanced Packaging

Nvidia has secured most of TSMC's cutting-edge CoWoS packaging capacity, with overflow routed to ASE and Amkor. TSMC is simultaneously expanding with two new packaging fabs in Taiwan and two in Arizona. A April 8 CNBC report has popularized the diagnosis that 'advanced packaging is the new bottleneck for AI chips.'

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