Ibiden targets AI servers with a $3.3 billion investment

Ibiden, a Japanese company specializing in the production of electronic materials, has announced a US$3.3 billion investment to expand its production capacity of integrated circuit (IC) substrates. This strategic move is aimed at capitalizing on the strong growth of the market for servers dedicated to artificial intelligence, which require increasingly high-performance and sophisticated components.

The expansion will focus on increasing the production of advanced IC substrates, which are essential to support the high performance required by GPUs and other processors used in AI servers. Ibiden's decision reflects the growing importance of specialized hardware for the efficient execution of artificial intelligence workloads.

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