Victory Giant Founder on $2.6 Billion HK Listing, AI Boom
THE SO WHAT
PCB capacity is now a direct AI leverage play — Victory Giant is effectively a public-market proxy on Nvidia’s supply chain and the next five years of accelerator demand. If you’re building AI hardware or dense edge devices, assume PCB lead times and pricing will track AI capex cycles, not traditional electronics seasonality.
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