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Unimicron chairman sees substrate sizes reaching 14x current scale by 2030

DigiTimes Early signal Published 20th October 2026 Asia, Global

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TPCA Show 2026 officially opened, with Unimicron Chairman Shan-Chieh Chien saying in his opening address that solving the three major challenges facing AI accelerators in high-performance computing (HPC) will require more than semiconductor process scaling. Advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration technologies must be introduced in parallel, significantly raising the technical requirements for the PCB and substrate industries.

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DigiTimes · Trade Publication
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20th October 2026
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Technology & Procurement Innovation
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Asia, Global
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20th October 2026 · 13:36

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Significance 1 · Low
Confidence 1 · Very Low

Initial Significance Low (11.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Very Low (13.5/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (8.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points).

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Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth