{"id":661695,"date":"2026-08-29T05:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/661695\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T05:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:53:19","slug":"inside-thailands-bid-to-wire-the-worlds-ai-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/661695\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Thailand\u2019s bid to wire the world\u2019s AI revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the rush to build an AI future, semiconductors<\/a> are the silicon rock stars that soak up all the applause. Yet behind the curtain, an unglamorous stagehand is doing much of the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are the copper-laced panels inside every mobile phone, car key fob, digital camera and data-centre server rack on Earth. Without them, even the most advanced AI chip would be useless, unable to process even a single line of code.<\/p>\n

This year alone, more than 1 million square metres (10.8 million sq ft) of PCBs will roll out of WellTek Electronics\u2019 factory in Ayutthaya \u2013 just one company\u2019s contribution to Thailand<\/a>\u2019s scramble for an edge in the global tech supply chain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are essential to our daily life. They are in all electronics you are using,\u201d said WellTek founder Jennifer Deng, who established the Thai subsidiary of her China-based Jiangxi Welgao Electronics in Ayutthaya two years ago.<\/p>\n

Thailand is now Southeast Asia\u2019s No 1 producer of PCBs \u2013 often described as the nervous system of modern electronics, channelling essential signals through increasingly complex arrays of semiconductors, resistors and capacitors \u2013 and the fifth largest in the world.<\/p>\n

Deng\u2019s US$75 million WellTek plant, built in under a year, is the first of two planned for Ayutthaya, a major Thai industrial zone once dominated by Japanese carmakers and global electronics giants, now being rewired for the artificial intelligence<\/a> age.\"AA WellTek Electronics printed circuit board. Thailand is Southeast Asia\u2019s No 1 producer of PCBs and the fifth largest in the world. Photo: Aidan Jones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the rush to build an AI future, semiconductors are the silicon rock stars that soak up all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,311,289,290,279485,279033,381,216904,356,279482,18,19,17,279484,6093,279483,203454,4434,82,391,158764,6535],"class_list":["post-661695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-apple","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ayutthaya","tag-board-of-investment","tag-china","tag-delta-electronics","tag-donald-trump","tag-eec-watch","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jennifer-deng","tag-malaysia","tag-narit-therdsteerasukdi","tag-printed-circuit-boards","tag-southeast-asia","tag-technology","tag-thailand","tag-this-week-in-asia","tag-vietnam"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117177248694473015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}