> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.sotkn.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Up to US$4 Billion a Park: Who Gets Paid as Taiwan Sends Its AI Suppliers to Texas - URL: https://www.sotkn.com/markets/taiwan/taiwan-ai-supplier-us-parks-export-controls-october-2026/ - Published: 2026-10-18T08:13:26.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-18T08:13:26.000Z - Description: TSMC and Foxconn can pay for their own US factories. The small firms that make their boards, fans and power parts often cannot. This week Taiwan said it will help build US parks for them, up to US$4 billion each, and make unlicensed AI server sales to China a crime. - Author: Sean - Tags: #market-taiwan, Markets *TSMC and Foxconn can pay for their own factories in America. The small Taiwanese firms that make their circuit boards, cooling plates and power parts often cannot. This week Taiwan said it will help build US industrial parks for them, starting in Texas, at up to US$4 billion a park, with the companies paying and the government guaranteeing their loans. In the same interview it said unlicensed AI server sales to China will become a crime. The stuck step is a US footprint the smaller suppliers can actually pay for.* **TAIWAN PULSE** · SEMICONDUCTORS · Data as at 18 Oct 2026 · Next update: Taiwan's October exports on 9 Nov and Foxconn's third-quarter results on 12 Nov **Affects:** [Semiconductors](https://www.sotkn.com/stack/semiconductors/) · [Hyperscalers](https://www.sotkn.com/stack/hyperscalers/) · [AI Data Centers](https://www.sotkn.com/stack/ai-data-centers/) — Markets: [Taiwan](https://www.sotkn.com/markets/taiwan/) · [US](https://www.sotkn.com/markets/us/) · [China](https://www.sotkn.com/markets/china/) **In short:** In an interview with Bloomberg on 12 October, published on 16 October, Taiwan's economics minister Kung Ming-hsin said Taiwan will build more than one industrial park in the United States for the smaller suppliers behind TSMC and AI server makers such as Foxconn, starting with a complex in Texas costing up to US$4 billion. The ministry said each park would cost US$2 billion to US$4 billion, paid for by companies through the industry association TEEMA, with the government offering loan guarantees and help with visas and land. Land is not yet confirmed. Kung also said AI servers and advanced chips will be added to Taiwan's export control list, making unlicensed shipments to China a crime, with no start date. Chipmakers and big assemblers are paid first. Stuck step: a US footprint the small suppliers can fund. Map of who gets paid — not a buy list. Education only, not advice to buy or sell any security. Figures are as stated by the government, the companies or the analysts named. Our own sums are labelled. ### The numbers that matter this week First US park, in Texas Up to US$4B Companies fund · government assists Plan Each later park US$2–4B More than one planned Plan Credit guarantee pledge US$250B January 2026 deal with the US Set Texas land Not confirmed Ministry: details later Stuck step AI servers to China A crime, soon Foreign Trade Act · no start date Coming US patent probe 12–16 months Hon Hai, Delta, Quanta named Clock Figures from the Ministry of Economic Affairs via CNA and Focus Taiwan on 16 October 2026, the US Commerce Department fact sheet of 15 January 2026 and the Taipei Times on 12 October 2026\. Status chips are Second Order’s read. **On this page:** [Why it matters](#why-it-matters) · [What changed](#what-changed) · [Inside the parks](#inside-the-parks) · [Where the profit sits](#profit-split) · [The export rule](#export-rule) · [Our math](#our-math) · [Who gets paid](#money-goes) · [What is stuck?](#still-stuck) · [Dates next](#dates) · [What would change this](#change-view) · [FAQ](#faq) ## Why do small Taiwanese suppliers matter to who gets paid in AI servers? Because an AI rack is not one product. It is a GPU or custom chip from TSMC, wrapped in memory, sitting on a large circuit board, cooled by cold plates and pipes, fed by power shelves, joined to its neighbours by switches and cables, and bolted together by an assembler such as Foxconn, Quanta, Wistron or Wiwynn. The big names are the ones on the box. Dozens of smaller Taiwanese firms make the parts inside it. Those smaller firms are not small in the market any more. A study by Zero One, a Taipei research group, published by AmCham Taiwan's magazine on 12 October, counted 88 Taiwan-listed companies in the AI supply chain. Five of them, TSMC, Foxconn, Quanta, Wistron and Wiwynn, take about 70% of the chain's revenue. The other 83 make the chips, boards, power supplies, cooling and servers around them. Over the past year, the 87 companies other than TSMC grew their sales by a combined 65%, faster than TSMC's 55%. Forty-two of them are now worth more than US$5 billion each, up from 17 in early 2022. Now their customers are moving. Washington wants more AI hardware built in America, and the US-Taiwan trade deal signed in January ties lower tariffs to Taiwanese investment there. TSMC is building in Arizona. The assemblers already run plants in the US and Mexico. A rack built in Texas still needs its boards, cold plates and power parts on time, and many of those come from Taiwan. If the suppliers cannot follow, the US line waits on a ship. This is a different question from the ones we have mapped in Taiwan this month. Our [Foxconn AI racks Pulse](https://www.sotkn.com/markets/taiwan/taiwan-foxconn-ai-racks-october-2026/) followed the NT$1 trillion month and the thin slice an assembler keeps. Our [September exports Pulse](https://www.sotkn.com/markets/taiwan/taiwan-september-exports-record-october-2026/) followed servers outselling chips at the border. This Pulse is about the next step: where the parts get made when the racks are built in America, and who pays for the new factories. For how the parts come together, see [rack-scale AI, explained](https://www.sotkn.com/explained/rack-scale-ai-explained/). For who designs the custom chips inside many of these racks, see [who makes custom AI chips](https://www.sotkn.com/explained/who-makes-custom-ai-chips/). 1 · The supplier binds **Who:** A US footprint small suppliers can pay for **Paid:** Up to US$4B a park · companies fund · land not confirmed Stuck step 2 · Paid first **Who:** TSMC and the chipmakers **Paid:** About 20% of the chain's revenue, 56% of its gross profit Paid first 3 · Paid on volume **Who:** Foxconn, Quanta, Wistron, Wiwynn **Paid:** Wiwynn's September sales doubled; gross margin near 9% Volume 4 · Paid later **Who:** Boards, cooling and power makers **Paid:** Better margins, smaller balance sheets, a second factory to fund Paid later ## What changed between 9 and 17 October? Four items in nine days, from Washington and Taipei, drew one picture. America wants the AI supply chain on its soil and under its rules, and Taiwan has agreed to help move it there, including the small firms that cannot move on their own. - **9 October — a patent probe in Washington.** The US International Trade Commission voted to open a Section 337 investigation into vertical power delivery systems, the modules that feed power to AI chips from directly underneath, after a complaint by Vicor, a Massachusetts power company. It names 20 companies from Taiwan, China, Germany and the US, including Hon Hai, Delta Electronics and Quanta. Vicor wants an order barring the accused products from entering the US. Taiwan's trade agency said such cases usually take 12 to 16 months. - **12 October — the minister's interview.** Kung Ming-hsin told Bloomberg that Taiwan will build industrial parks in the US for the smaller suppliers behind TSMC and the AI server assemblers, starting in Texas at up to US$4 billion, and more than one in total. In the same interview he said Taiwan will put AI servers and cutting-edge chips on its export control list, so that shipping restricted AI hardware to China becomes a crime under the Foreign Trade Act. He did not say when. - **16 October — the ministry fills in the model.** After Bloomberg published, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said each park would cost US$2 billion to US$4 billion, and that the model is “companies fund, government assists”, promoted with the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association, TEEMA. Asked whether Texas land had been secured, it said it would give details at a later date. - **16 and 17 October — the volume keeps coming.** Commercial Times reported Wiwynn's September sales at NT$172.62 billion, up 99.99% on a year, and its third quarter at a record NT$434.62 billion. Analysts cited by Economic Daily News said Nvidia's Vera Rubin, Amazon's Trainium 3 and Google's TPU v8 servers ramp in the second half of 2026, and named ten Taiwanese part and server makers in line to gain. Put together, the message is not that AI demand has cooled. It is that the place and the paperwork are changing. More of the racks will be built in America, every shipment toward China will need a licence, and the parts makers will need factories on both sides of the Pacific. ## What is inside the park plan? Start with who it is for. The minister said TSMC and Foxconn can raise money and manage US expansion on their own, but small and mid-sized suppliers often cannot. A US plant means land, a building, power hook-ups, permits, visas for engineers and a local workforce, all before the first board ships. For a mid-sized firm whose factories are all in Taiwan, that can be a large share of its balance sheet. Then the money. The ministry was careful. The government is not putting up US$4 billion. Companies fund the parks, TEEMA raises the money, and the state helps. In the minister's account, that help is credit guarantees on suppliers' loans, plus contact with US federal and local officials on visas and land. Foxconn's chairman Young Liu, who also chairs TEEMA's supervisory committee, had said earlier that sites under study for overseas parks include Arizona and Texas, as well as Mexico, Poland and India. Then the deal behind it. On 15 January 2026, under a US-Taiwan agreement on trade and investment, Taiwan committed that its companies would make at least US$250 billion of new direct investment in US chip, energy and AI production, and that the government would provide credit guarantees of at least US$250 billion for more investment by Taiwanese firms. The same fact sheet said the two sides would set up industrial parks in the US. The US capped its reciprocal tariff on Taiwanese goods at 15%. Economic Daily News wrote that Taiwan now faces pressure to deliver on those pledges. The Texas park is the first named piece of the park promise. And the reason it is urgent now. Kung said AI demand is large enough to give manufacturers a real chance to move production to the US, and that Taiwanese suppliers are under heavy pressure on delivery times, so they are adding capacity at home and abroad at the same time. That is the hard part. A supplier running flat out in Taiwan has to fund a second plant in Texas without slowing the first. What Taiwan has said Where firstTexas Cost per parkUS$2–4 billion Who paysCompanies, via TEEMA State helpLoan guarantees, visas, land What is still open LandNot confirmed Which firmsNot named TimelineNot given Later sitesNot named ## Where does the profit sit in Taiwan's AI supply chain? ![Chart of Taiwan's AI supply chain: chipmakers take 20% of revenue and 56% of gross profit, server assemblers 69% and 23%](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cd/10/cd10e222-131f-4ba4-b4a9-ca4214e8c12d/content/images/2026/10/taiwan-ai-supplier-us-parks-export-controls-october-2026-print.png) Revenue is not profit. · Education only. Not where the revenue is. In Zero One's numbers, Taiwan's chipmakers book about 20% of the supply chain's revenue but keep 56% of its gross profit, the money left after paying for materials and making the goods. The server assemblers book 69% of the revenue and keep 23% of the gross profit. TSMC alone earns about half of all the chain's gross profit. The assemblers' revenue looks huge because it counts every GPU, memory stack and board they buy and pass on inside the rack. The rest of the chain, the boards, power, cooling, memory and connectors, is small in revenue and better paid per dollar than the assemblers. On the same study, Delta Electronics makes more than half of the power and cooling group's revenue and has grown nearly 140% since early 2022\. Asia Vital Components, a cooling maker, has climbed from 31st to 19th in the chain by size. Power and cooling revenue fell less than 7% in the 2023 downturn, when memory and boards fell much harder. Wiwynn shows the assembler's side in one line. Commercial Times reported its September sales at NT$172.62 billion, up 19.62% on August and 99.99% on a year, and its third quarter at NT$434.62 billion, up 56.25% on the second. Its nine-month sales were NT$989.28 billion, up 50.3%. Its gross margin in the second quarter was about 9.3%, and its operating margin about 7.3%. Third-quarter results are not out yet. The paper noted the question investors are asking: whether sales that double can turn into profit that doubles. The chip end of the same chain printed on 15 October; see our [TSMC third-quarter Wire](https://www.sotkn.com/wire/tsmc-q3-2026-2nm-8-percent-demand-above-supply-wire/). For the land question at home, see our [Chiayi packaging land Pulse](https://www.sotkn.com/markets/taiwan/taiwan-chiayi-packaging-land-october-2026/). ## How much more AI server work is coming? ![Chart of AI servers' share of global server shipments rising from 19% in 2025 to 23% in 2026 and about 27% in 2027](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cd/10/cd10e222-131f-4ba4-b4a9-ca4214e8c12d/content/images/2026/10/taiwan-ai-supplier-us-parks-export-controls-october-2026-shift.png) More of every server order is AI. · Education only. Enough that the parts makers cannot simply pick one side. Analysts cited by Economic Daily News on 16 October expect AI servers to rise from about 19% of global server shipments in 2025 to 23% in 2026 and about 27% in 2027, with AI server shipments up 49% and 46% in those two years. They see racks of Nvidia's GB300 and VR200 NVL72, the 72-GPU systems, rising from about 69,000 in 2026 to about 80,000 in 2027, plus about 150,000 HGX racks. They expect Nvidia's share of AI server chips to fall below 50% in 2027 as Amazon's and Google's own chips grow. They also flagged the limit. Shortages of memory and CPUs could hold back server shipments. That is a reminder that the parts, not the orders, set the pace, and it is why a supplier that falls behind on a US line has little slack. The same note listed the Taiwanese firms in line to gain as Vera Rubin, Trainium 3 and TPU v8 servers ramp in the third and fourth quarters: the assemblers Wiwynn, Wistron and Hon Hai; the cooling makers Asia Vital Components, Fositek and Jentech; Delta for power; and the board and laminate makers Gold Circuit, Elite Material and Unimicron. The parts makers on that list are the kind of firm the Texas park is meant for. More power per rack makes those parts harder to replace. For what happens to the power path when racks pass 200 kW, see our members' Analysis on [AI racks at 250 kW](https://www.sotkn.com/analysis/if-ai-racks-reach-250-kw-where-cash-sticks/). ## What does the export rule change? Who carries the risk on each shipment. Until now, sending an AI server from Taiwan to China without a permit was not in itself a crime in Taiwan. Officials warned exporters that it could break US rules, but prosecutors had to use other laws. Taiwan News recalled the case filed in August: nine people indicted over 130 servers, 74 of them allegedly shipped to China through other countries on false papers, charged with breach of trust and forgery rather than an export offence. Kung's plan adds AI servers and cutting-edge chips to Taiwan's controlled goods list. Once it takes effect, an unlicensed shipment of restricted AI hardware to China becomes a Foreign Trade Act crime. He said some of the controls will match US rules, as part of the commitments in the reciprocal trade agreement. He gave no start date and no technical threshold for which servers count. For the assemblers and their parts makers, on our read, this is mostly paperwork and checks. Exporters are likely to need a clearer record of where each server is going and who will use it. For brokers who route racks through third countries, it closes a door. The US side of the same story, a broker's guilty plea in a US$2.5 billion Super Micro diversion case, is in our [Super Micro Catalyst](https://www.sotkn.com/catalyst/super-micro-broker-guilty-plea-2-5bn-ai-server-diversion/). For what China's own chip makers are doing meanwhile, see the [China Markets hub](https://www.sotkn.com/markets/china/). ## Our math: what do the numbers say? - Park against pledge: the first park at up to US$4 billion is about 1.6% of the US$250 billion credit guarantee pledge. The pledge would cover about 62 parks at US$4 billion, or 125 at US$2 billion (our arithmetic; the pledge also covers other investment). - Profit per revenue: chipmakers keep 56% of gross profit on 20% of revenue, about 2.8 times their revenue share. Assemblers keep 23% on 69%, about one-third. Everyone else, boards, power, cooling, memory and connectors, keeps about 21% on about 11%, roughly 1.9 times (our arithmetic on Zero One's split). - Wiwynn's quarter: at the second quarter's 9.3% gross margin, NT$434.62 billion of third-quarter sales would leave about NT$40 billion of gross profit, and about NT$32 billion of operating profit at 7.3% (our arithmetic; it assumes margins held, and results are not out). - Wiwynn's year: the third quarter alone is about 44% of the first nine months' NT$989.28 billion (our arithmetic). - Racks: 69,000 to 80,000 NVL72 racks is a rise of about 16%. At 72 GPUs a rack, 69,000 racks hold about 5 million GPUs (our arithmetic on the analysts' estimates). - Supply chain scale: NT$22.6 trillion of sales in the first eight months is about NT$2.8 trillion a month across the 88 companies (our arithmetic on Zero One's figure). - Smuggling case: 74 of 130 servers reaching China is about 57%; customs held the other 56 (our arithmetic). - Patent clock: 12 to 16 months from the 9 October vote puts a decision between about October 2027 and February 2028 (our arithmetic on the usual timeline). What this tells you: the money in Taiwan's AI chain is not short. The chipmakers keep most of the profit, the parts makers are well paid per dollar, and the assemblers move huge volume. What is short is a cheap, quick way for the mid-sized parts makers to stand up a second factory in America. One park is a small slice of the pledge. It is a test of whether the pledge can be turned into buildings. ## Who gets paid first? ![Infographic: who gets paid as Taiwan's AI suppliers follow their customers to US parks, and why a US footprint small suppliers can pay for is the stuck step](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cd/10/cd10e222-131f-4ba4-b4a9-ca4214e8c12d/content/images/2026/10/taiwan-ai-supplier-us-parks-export-controls-october-2026-infographic.png) Who gets paid / stuck step as suppliers follow their customers. · Education only. First, TSMC and the chipmakers — on every wafer, wherever the rack is built. They keep more than half of the chain's gross profit, and TSMC funds its own US fabs. The park plan is not for them. Second, the big assemblers — on volume. Foxconn, Quanta, Wistron and Wiwynn are paid for every rack they ship, at a thin margin, and they already have plants in the US and Mexico. Wiwynn's sales doubling in September shows the volume is there. On our read, having their own suppliers next door in Texas would cut their shipping and inventory risk on US lines. Third, whoever builds and lends for the parks — as the money is drawn. If land is confirmed and companies sign up, Texas builders, landlords and the banks lending under Taiwan's guarantees are paid as the sites go up. This step is still a plan with a cost range, not a groundbreaking. Fourth, the boards, cooling and power makers — later, and only after they spend. They are better paid per dollar of sales than the assemblers, but each must fund a second factory, hire in a new country and keep its Taiwan plant running flat out. The loan guarantee is aimed at exactly this gap. Delta, Quanta and Hon Hai also carry the patent question on power delivery parts until the US probe ends. Fifth, the grey-channel brokers — not at all, once the export rule takes effect. Shipping restricted racks to China without a licence becomes a crime. For the wider pattern of cash sticking at the stuck step, see [where the stuck step moves](https://www.sotkn.com/analysis/where-does-the-stuck-step-move/). One-line rule: in Taiwan's AI supply chain right now, chipmakers are paid first on every wafer, assemblers are paid on volume, park builders and lenders are paid if the parks get built, and the parts makers are paid later, after they fund a second home. The stuck step is a US footprint the small suppliers can pay for. ## So what is the stuck step? A US footprint the smaller suppliers can pay for, in time for the US lines they serve. Not demand: AI server shipments are forecast to rise by almost half again in each of the next two years. Not profit: the parts makers earn more per dollar than the assemblers. Not policy will: both governments have signed on to US parks. Three things make this step stick: - **Balance sheets:** the ministry's model is that companies pay, so each supplier still has to borrow or raise money for a new plant while its Taiwan lines run full. The state's help is a guarantee, not a grant. - **Land and people:** the Texas site is not confirmed, and visas, permits and local workers are exactly the items the minister offered help with, which says they are hard. - **Rules still forming:** the export list has no start date or threshold, and the patent probe on power delivery parts will not end for 12 to 16 months. A supplier deciding what to build in Texas does not yet know every rule it will build under. So-what: whoever can stand up a US plant next to its customer and keep its Taiwan plant full gets paid twice. Whoever cannot stays a ship away from the racks. In Taiwan's AI chain this week, the scarce thing is not orders or chips. It is a funded second factory for the small firms. In Taiwan itself, the same build-out is pressing on the grid; see our [Taipower grid Pulse](https://www.sotkn.com/markets/taiwan/taiwan-taipower-ai-data-centre-grid-october-2026/). ## Which dates test this read next? ![Calendar of dates that test the Taiwan supplier parks read, from September export orders to the Section 337 decision window](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cd/10/cd10e222-131f-4ba4-b4a9-ca4214e8c12d/content/images/2026/10/taiwan-ai-supplier-us-parks-export-controls-october-2026-calendar.png) Dates that test the read. · Education only. - Around 20 October 2026 — the economics ministry's September export orders. The test: whether orders for servers and parts keep rising, and what share is made outside Taiwan. - 9 November 2026 — Taiwan's October exports. The test: whether servers keep outselling chips at the border. - By 10 November 2026 — October monthly sales from Taiwan-listed suppliers. The test: whether the cooling, board and power makers keep growing as fast as the assemblers. - 12 November 2026 — Foxconn's third-quarter results. The test: what the biggest assembler says about US plants and its suppliers. - Date not set — the ministry's details on the Texas park, and the start date of the export rule. The test: land, firms and a timetable; and which servers the list covers. - About October 2027 to February 2028 — the usual window for a Section 337 decision. The test: whether any power delivery parts are barred from the US. The November dates test the volume. The undated items test whether the plan becomes buildings and the rule becomes law. ## What would change this view? - The ministry confirms Texas land, names the first suppliers and sets a timetable — the bind would move from funding to building. - Taiwan adds grants or cheap state loans, not just guarantees — the small suppliers' balance sheet problem would ease and the step would loosen. - US customers accept parts shipped from Taiwan for US lines without delay or extra tariff — the need for a second factory would shrink. - Memory or CPU shortages cut server shipments well below forecast — the pressure to build both sides of the Pacific at once would fade. ## Practical takeaways - Minister Kung (12 Oct, published 16 Oct): US parks for Taiwan's smaller AI suppliers, Texas first, up to US$4 billion - Ministry (16 Oct): US$2–4 billion a park; companies fund, government assists; land details later - January deal: at least US$250 billion of investment and US$250 billion of credit guarantees, plus US parks - Export list: AI servers and advanced chips; unlicensed shipments to China to become a crime, no start date - Chipmakers keep most of the profit; assemblers are paid on volume; parts makers are paid after they build - Stuck step: a US footprint the small suppliers can pay for ## FAQ **What did Taiwan announce about US industrial parks?** In an interview with Bloomberg on 12 October, published on 16 October, Economics Minister Kung Ming-hsin said Taiwan plans more than one industrial park in the United States, starting in Texas, for the smaller suppliers behind TSMC and AI server makers such as Foxconn. The Ministry of Economic Affairs said each park would cost about US$2 billion to US$4 billion, funded by companies with government help. Land has not been confirmed. **Who pays for the parks?** On the ministry's account, the companies do. The electrical and electronics industry association, TEEMA, is to raise the money, and the government offers help: credit guarantees on loans, and contact with US federal and local officials on visas and land. It is not a US$4 billion government budget. **What changes for AI server exports to China?** Taiwan plans to add AI servers and advanced chips to its export control list. Once that takes effect, shipping restricted AI hardware to China without permission becomes a crime under the Foreign Trade Act. Today prosecutors have to use other laws, such as breach of trust and forgery. No start date or technical threshold has been given. **Why does this matter for AI data centres?** Taiwanese firms such as Foxconn, Quanta, Wistron and Wiwynn build many of the AI servers US cloud companies buy, with boards, cooling and power parts from smaller Taiwanese makers. If those makers cannot follow their customers to the US, the racks wait. The new rules decide where the parts are made and who must check where each rack goes. **Is this investment advice?** No. Education only. It maps who gets paid and which step is stuck. 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[Read the Wire →](https://www.sotkn.com/the-wire/) · [Subscribe free →](https://www.sotkn.com/#/portal/signup) **Members’ Analysis (teaser):** When the stuck step moves, where does cash stick? The free line: whoever clears the bind is paid before whoever waits on it. [Read the Analysis →](https://www.sotkn.com/analysis/where-does-the-stuck-step-move/) **How we check this.** The park plan, the US$2 billion to US$4 billion cost per park, the “companies fund, government assists” model, TEEMA’s role and the unconfirmed Texas land come from the Ministry of Economic Affairs as reported by CNA and Focus Taiwan on 16 October 2026, and from Economic Daily News on 17 October. The export control plan comes from the minister’s 12 October interview with Bloomberg as reported by CNA and Taiwan News on 16 October. The US$250 billion figures and the industrial park pledge come from the US Commerce Department’s fact sheet of 15 January 2026\. The patent probe comes from the Taipei Times on 12 October. Wiwynn’s sales and margins come from Commercial Times on 16 October. Server forecasts come from analysts cited by Economic Daily News on 16 October, and the supply chain profit split from Zero One’s study in Taiwan Business Topics on 12 October; we label both as estimates. Share prices, broker ratings and price targets are left out on purpose. Anything we worked out ourselves is labelled “our arithmetic”. The references we used are listed at the end. [Our editorial standards →](https://www.sotkn.com/editorial-standards/) Not investment advice. Do your own research. --- ### References 1. Focus Taiwan (CNA), Taiwan plans U.S. industrial parks with private funding, government aid, 16 Oct 2026\. [focustaiwan.tw](https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202610160010?ref=sotkn.com) — Ministry of Economic Affairs: each park US$2 billion to US$4 billion, companies fund and government assists, with TEEMA; Texas first; land details later. 2. Economic Daily News, Economics minister: science park in Texas, companies fund and government assists, 17 Oct 2026\. [money.udn.com](https://money.udn.com/money/story/7307/9820090?ref=sotkn.com) — loan credit guarantees, help with visas and land; the US$250 billion credit guarantee commitment; suppliers under delivery pressure expanding at home and abroad. 3. Central News Agency, Kung tells Bloomberg Taiwan will build several US parks for an AI supply chain, 16 Oct 2026\. [cna.com.tw](https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202610163002.aspx?ref=sotkn.com) — first Texas park up to US$4 billion; TEEMA to raise the funds; interview given on 12 October. 4. Central News Agency, Kung tells Bloomberg Taiwan is preparing to tighten AI chip export controls on China, 16 Oct 2026\. [cna.com.tw](https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202610163006.aspx?ref=sotkn.com) — AI servers and advanced chips to join the control list; shipments to China to become a Foreign Trade Act offence; no start date. 5. Taiwan News, Taiwan to impose strict controls on AI chip exports to China, 16 Oct 2026\. [taiwannews.com.tw](https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6459737?ref=sotkn.com) — commitments under the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade; the August case of 130 servers, 74 allegedly shipped to China. 6. US Department of Commerce, Fact sheet on the agreement on trade and investment with Taiwan, 15 Jan 2026\. [commerce.gov](https://www.commerce.gov/news/fact-sheets/2026/01/fact-sheet-restoring-american-semiconductor-manufacturing-leadership?ref=sotkn.com) — at least US$250 billion of direct investment, at least US$250 billion of credit guarantees, US industrial parks, tariff cap of 15%. 7. Taipei Times (CNA), US launches probe into Taiwan firms, 12 Oct 2026\. [taipeitimes.com](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2026/10/12/2003865784?ref=sotkn.com) — USITC Section 337 investigation of vertical power delivery systems after a Vicor complaint; Hon Hai, Delta and Quanta named; 12 to 16 months. 8. Commercial Times, 16 October intraday focus stocks, 16 Oct 2026\. [ctee.com.tw](https://www.ctee.com.tw/news/20261016700784-430201?ref=sotkn.com) — Wiwynn September sales NT$172.62 billion, up 99.99% on a year; third quarter NT$434.62 billion; second-quarter gross margin about 9.3%. 9. Economic Daily News, AI server demand stays strong, 16 Oct 2026\. [udn.com](https://udn.com/news/story/7251/9818556?ref=sotkn.com) — analyst estimates: AI servers 19%, 23% and 27% of server shipments in 2025 to 2027; GB300 and VR200 NVL72 racks about 69,000 to 80,000. 10. Taiwan Business Topics (AmCham Taiwan), How the AI boom has expanded across Taiwan's supply chain, 12 Oct 2026\. [topics.amcham.com.tw](https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2026/10/how-the-ai-boom-has-expanded-across-taiwans-supply-chain/?ref=sotkn.com) — 88 listed suppliers; chipmakers 20% of revenue and 56% of gross profit; assemblers 69% and 23%; 87 others grew 65%.