『Intel 18A vs. Losses, TSMC CoWoS Crunch & Liquid Cooling Frontier』のカバーアート

Intel 18A vs. Losses, TSMC CoWoS Crunch & Liquid Cooling Frontier

Intel 18A vs. Losses, TSMC CoWoS Crunch & Liquid Cooling Frontier

無料で聴く

ポッドキャストの詳細を見る
(00:00:00) Intel 18A vs. Losses, TSMC CoWoS Crunch & Liquid Cooling Frontier
(00:01:07) Intel Data Center Offsets Foundry Drag
(00:01:53) Intel Valuation Risk at 72x P/E
(00:02:31) TSMC Kaohsiung Validation Campus
(00:03:21) In-Wafer Liquid Cooling Frontier
(00:04:06) Key Signals to Watch

Intel's foundry unit delivered its strongest revenue quarter on record at $5.8B — up 31% — yet still posted a $2.1B operating loss. The 18A process node is running 25% above production targets, but external customers account for just $293M, or 5% of segment revenue. The foundry is largely serving itself, and the external customer pipeline remains the critical unknown. Meanwhile, Intel's data center AI segment posted $2.5B in operating profit on $6.26B in revenue, up 59% — essentially subsidising the foundry build-out. With the stock trading at 72x forward earnings, October results will be pivotal: if external foundry revenue stays anchored near 5%, the premium multiple becomes very difficult to defend.

On the TSMC side, the story this week is supply chain topology rather than raw capacity. TSMC opened a dedicated supplier validation campus in Kaohsiung focused on materials qualification for CoWoS advanced packaging — the technology inside every Nvidia H-series and AMD MI-series accelerator. With CoWoS capacity expanding at over 80% CAGR but a 20% supply-demand gap persisting into 2026, the bottleneck is materials readiness as much as fab throughput.

TSMC also signalled its intent to integrate liquid cooling directly into wafers — an early-stage but telling indicator that heat, not lithography, is becoming the binding constraint in AI chip design. Liquid cooling is forecast to reach 70% of new AI data centre builds by 2030. Power and thermal infrastructure lead times now rival chip lead times in some markets. Today's episode connects the execution data points across Intel, TSMC, and the broader AI infrastructure stack.

This episode includes AI-generated content.
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
まだレビューはありません