ABF substrate crunch reshapes market: Unimicron leads and rivals close in

AI server architectures are rapidly shifting toward ultra-high-density designs, keeping advanced CoWoS packaging capacity persistently tight. The primary bottleneck stems from continuously expanding chip sizes, which introduce warpage and thermal stress challenges while driving ABF substrate demand to multiply, creating structural supply pressure and underpinning a recovery in 2025 operations for Taiwan’s three leading IC substrate makers.

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SanDisk sees sevenfold profit surge in 2QFY26, extends Kioxia JV

SanDisk delivered a strong fiscal second quarter in 2026, reflecting accelerating demand across data centers, industrial applications, and consumer electronics, driven by the ongoing AI infrastructure buildout. The US flash memory maker reported revenue of US$3.03 billion, up 61% year over year, while net profit surged 7.7-fold to US$803 million, according to its January 29, 2026, earnings release.

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MediaTek and Arm-backed Arbor drives layered growth with AI strategy

As generative AI gradually extends from the cloud to enterprise and edge environments, industry competition is shifting from a single high-performance computing platform toward multi-layered application scenarios. With expanding demand across use cases, market competition is evolving from a single technology path to a layered market structure that clearly segments large cloud data centers, enterprise data centers, and Small Office, Home Office (SOHO) personal applications. This segmentation is also reshaping supply chain roles and collaboration.

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Aspeed profits rise for second year on server upgrade demand

As artificial intelligence (AI) applications expand, the rising scale and density of server computing have placed a premium on system stability. AI servers, characterized by high costs, extreme power consumption and significant heat generation, face the risk of substantial losses from system outages. This has heightened the importance of baseboard management controllers (BMCs), which provide real-time monitoring of voltage, temperature and system status, driving steady growth in Aspeed Technology’s operating performance.

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