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Unimicron / ABF substrate makers

ABF build-up substrate manufacturers

Unimicron, Ibiden and Shinko convert Ajinomoto Build-up Film into the high-layer-count package substrates every AI accelerator sits on. Substrate area per GPU has ballooned with chiplet designs, making ABF substrate fabrication a periodic bottleneck alongside CoWoS.

Peers

Unimicron, Ibiden, Shinko, AT&S

Input

Ajinomoto Build-up Film

How it fits the stack

Unimicron / ABF substrate makers with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.

sourcessuppliesmanufacturessuppliesdepends onsuppliesdepends onUnimicron / ABFsubstrate makersMaterialsAjinomoto Build-upFilm (ABF)chokepointAdvanced PackagingSubstrates (ABF)chokepointNvidia Data-Center GPU(Blackwell/Rubin)chokepointTSMC CoWoS(Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate)chokepoint
Unimicron / ABF substrate makersDepends on ↑Feeds ↓

Unimicron / ABF substrate makers in the AI stack. Unimicron / ABF substrate makers with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.

Graph data (text) — 5 entities, 7 relationships
  • Unimicron / ABF substrate makerssourcesAjinomoto Build-up Film (ABF)
  • Unimicron / ABF substrate makerssuppliesAjinomoto Build-up Film (ABF)
  • Advanced Packaging Substrates (ABF)manufacturesUnimicron / ABF substrate makers
  • Nvidia Data-Center GPU (Blackwell/Rubin)suppliesUnimicron / ABF substrate makers
  • Nvidia Data-Center GPU (Blackwell/Rubin)depends onUnimicron / ABF substrate makers
  • TSMC CoWoS (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate)suppliesUnimicron / ABF substrate makers
  • TSMC CoWoS (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate)depends onUnimicron / ABF substrate makers