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PRE-MARKET TAIWAN AND SINGAPORE STOCKS NEWS: TSMC (2330 TT) is evaluating a potential investment in Texas to expand US chip production
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TAIWAN
Compal Electronics (2324 TT) - Co. will showcase its next-generation AI factory infrastructure at the OCP Global Summit 2026, demonstrating power, cooling, compute and rack-scale engineering designed to support NVIDIA accelerated computing. (Newswires)
TSMC (2330 TT) - Co. is evaluating a potential investment in Texas to expand US chip production, in addition to the USD 265bln already committed to Arizona, according to people familiar with the matter. (Newswires)
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CapitaLand India Trust (CLINT SP) - Co. appointed Pallavi Gopinath Aney as a non-executive independent director, while Vishnu Shahaney was appointed a member of the investment committee. (Business Times)
DBS Group Holdings (DBS SP) - Co. appointed Blackstone Singapore chairman and senior managing director Gautam Banerjee to the boards of DBS Group Holdings and DBS Bank with immediate effect. (Business Times)
DFI Retail Group (DFI SP) - Co. is set to take over the Starbucks business in Asia from Maxim’s Caterers, with the transaction involving the repurchase of DFI’s indirect 50% stake in Maxim’s in exchange for the Starbucks-licensed business and about USD 340mln in cash. (Business Times)
ESR-REIT (EREIT SP) - Co. agreed to divest its 30 Pioneer Road property to GKE (GKEC SP) for SGD 32mln, with net proceeds to be used for debt repayment, potential acquisitions, asset enhancement initiatives and general working capital. (Business Times)
Frasers Property (FPL SP) - Co. and Mitsubishi Estate will jointly redevelop Valley Point and Frasers Suites Singapore into a freehold mixed-use development, with Frasers holding a 51% stake in the joint venture and Mitsubishi Estate 49%. (Business Times)
Context
Large incremental fab commitments by leading-edge foundries in the US have become a recurring pattern, typically framed alongside the subsidy and tariff environment rather than as pure capacity economics, and past announcements of this kind have tended to be sequenced: an evaluation or people-familiar leak, a formal commitment with a headline dollar figure, then a longer tail of execution detail on nodes, timelines and incentives. The channel that matters for the sector is not the capex itself, which is largely pre-flagged in these episodes, but the geographic mix of future leading-edge supply, since concentration in Taiwan has historically been the key risk premium input for the stock and its largest customers. A Texas expansion on top of an existing Arizona programme fits the established playbook of diversifying across US sites rather than concentrating in one, and the useful tell is whether the scope involves advanced packaging or leading-edge wafer capacity, which carry very different cost and schedule profiles. Names in the customer set tagged alongside, the AI accelerator and large-cap platform names, are exposed through supply assurance rather than through any direct financial link. The follow-ons worth noting are confirmation or denial from the company, any linkage to subsidy or tariff negotiations, and whether equipment and construction suppliers begin to reflect the work in orders.
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