Wiwynn Corp (緯穎), a supplier of artificial intelligence (AI) servers and components, on Thursday said that it plans to invest US$300 million to build its first manufacturing facility in Texas to cope with the realignment of global supply chains amid escalating macroeconomic uncertainty.
Wiwynn operates manufacturing facilities in Taiwan, Mexico and Malaysia. The Texas factory plan came as US President Donald Trump said that sweeping tariffs of 25 percent on Mexican and Canadian imports would take effect on March 4.
Domestically, Wiwynn is also increasing its capacity. The company on Thursday raised capital expenditures by about 29 percent for its new manufacturing facility and office building at the Southern Science Park to NT$8 billion (US$243.8 million), higher than an earlier estimate of NT$6.2 billion.
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The new investment would further strengthen the company’s global production footprint and expand its scope of delivery, the company said.
Wiwynn counts US cloud services providers Meta Platforms Inc and Microsoft Corp among its major clients.
“The company is optimistic about data center long-term market demand and growth, and is committed to continuous investments to deepen AI, computing, thermal, and technologies and product development,” Wiwynn said. “The company will also flexibly adjust the global capacity allocation to respond to political and economic dynamics, and customer demand.”
Wiwynn on Thursday posted the strongest quarterly net profit in the company’s history last quarter, amounting NT$7.05 billion, benefiting from strong demand for regular and AI-enabled servers.
That means last quarter’s net profits had doubled from NT$3.51 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023. Earnings per share soared from NT$20.1 a year ago to NT$37.9 last quarter.
The company previously told investors that AI servers accounted for about half of its total revenue in the final quarter of last year, compared with about 20 percent in the first quarter. Revenue last quarter surged 97.5 percent year-on-year to NT$115.61 billion.
Last year as a whole, Wiwynn’s net profits surged 89 percent year-on-year to NT$22.78 billion compared with NT$12.04 billion in 2023. EPS climbed from NT$68.88 to NT$126.57.
Gross margin improved from 9.37 percent in 2023 to 10.37 percent last year, while revenue hit a record high after rising 49 percent from NT$241.90 billion to NT$360.54 billion last year.
The company’s board of directors on Thursday approved a cash dividend distribution of NT$74 per common share, setting an all-time high. That represented a payout ratio of 58.47 percent.
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