Industry Findings: National industrial strategy elevated semiconductor and packaging priorities, which in turn recalibrated memory sourcing assumptions for local integrators. A major policy action occurred when the Executive Yuan approved the Taiwan Chip-based Industrial Innovation Program in Nov-2023, allocating multi-year funding for advanced packaging, foundry upgrades and R&D. That programme incentivised designers to assume stronger local packaging capacity and to model systems with higher on-package memory options and modular upgrade pathways. The effect improved multi-year sourcing visibility and encouraged procurement teams to prioritise memory modules that align with local packaging roadmaps.
Industry Player Insights: The market comprises many players, and a small portion of them includes TSMC, Nanya Technology, Macronix, and Kioxia etc. TSMC signalled additional advanced packaging capacity plans in Mar-2024 that will ease interposer and CoWoS supply constraints for HBM and other high-bandwidth integrations. Separately, Nanya and other local memory firms announced large-capacity fab and process investment plans in Dec-2024 to strengthen onshore DRAM supply options. Together these vendor initiatives improved Taiwan’s ability to support memory-dense AI appliances and shortened qualification cycles for locally assembled systems.