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Tesla and Nvidia pour $2.8B into Samsung substrate production as the AI supply chain bottlenecks

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3 min read · 25 October 2026

Tesla and Nvidia are investing roughly $2.8 billion — 3.7 trillion won — in Samsung Electro-Mechanics' FC-BGA substrate production, a bet that packaging materials, not GPUs, are the next AI supply-chain bottleneck.

Summary

Tesla and Nvidia invest ~$2.8B (3.7 trillion won)
Target: Samsung Electro-Mechanics FC-BGA substrate capacity
Substrates package every advanced AI chip
When two rivals co-invest, the bottleneck is real

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