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- 1AI substrate shortages easing, but equipment now the bottleneck▼AI substrate material shortages are easing, but advanced equipment is becoming the expansion bottleneck. Source: DigiTim
DigiTimes Asia reports that shortages of IC substrate materials used in AI hardware are easing as suppliers expand capacity. However, the industry's expansion is now being held back by a lack of advanced manufacturing equipment, which is harder to obtain than the raw materials themselves. The shift suggests supply constraints in the AI chip supply chain are moving downstream from materials to tooling, with lead times for production equipment emerging as the key limit on how fast substrate makers can grow.