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AI's real chip bottleneck is packaging, not silicon: Powertech puts $400M into a Broadcom JV in Singapore
Taiwan's Powertech will invest $400M in a Singapore joint venture with Broadcom to build fan-out panel-level packaging — the fine-geometry routing behind Broadcom's and AMD's AI chips. The deal is pending Taiwan regulatory sign-off.
Positive-sum angle: Singapore climbs the semiconductor value chain from assembly-and-test toward advanced packaging — the step that makes AI chips performant — pulling equipment makers, substrate suppliers and specialist talent into the region behind it.