Nvidia Signs $1.5 Billion Accord With Amkor for Chip Packaging
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Nvidia committing $1.5 billion to Amkor for advanced packaging is another data point that the bottleneck has moved from wafers to assembly and test. If your roadmap depends on next-gen GPUs, treat packaging capacity and geography as hard constraints, not details your cloud vendor will magically absorb.
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