Missed this mention earlier but IC design insiders reveal that OSAT providers have already warned clients:
"traditional packaging capacity could face a deficit exceeding 20% by 2027" (eg. $AMKR, ethereum:0x041ff0e49f6f774e7dc7bd10ee4a14c00b1d80b2, Powertech as potential beneficaries)
With: "wire bonding equipment" emerging as the primary bottleneck (ASMPT, $KLIC)
-> influx of AI server shipments has triggered a spike in demand for mature chips
-> existing mature packaging capacity at OSATs is being rapidly absorbed
-> securing early access to traditional packaging capacity is now becoming a challenge
Cascading bottleneck patterns are occurring across memory (eg. DDR2, DDR3) and now packaging capacity I guess.