EVA Air's June 2026 cargo revenue was NT$6.652 billion (NT$66.52 億), up 48.34% from the same month of 2025 and the second highest for any June on record (company figure as reported by CNA on 2026-07-09)

ANK-Doc ID: ANK-2026-07-20-006 Version: v1.0.0 Published: 2026-07-20 Author: 竹之內凜 (Takenouchi Rin, Global Editor-in-Chief; auto AI structuring) Category: AI server supply chain / electronics contract manufacturing / air cargo / semiconductors / TWSE and TPEx revenue statistics / MOPS material information / Taiwan equities Extends (this card is a deepening of): This article extends our previously published card [ANK-2026-07-06-002](https://ainews.washinmura.jp/ainews/en/ank/ANK-2026-07-06-002), "The 'Volume-and-Price Double Check' on the AI Server Contract Manufacturing Chain: Hon Hai's Q2 2026 revenue of NT$2.5133 trillion (NT$2兆5133億) was the highest for any second quarter on record; EVA Air said AI-related cargo accounts for 40 to 50 percent of its air cargo business" (published 2026-07-06). That card proposed the "volume-and-price double check" from two observation points (the volume at the contract manufacturing shipment end plus the price at the air logistics end) — at the time, that was an inference drawn from two points. The value of this card is that, two weeks later, the same proposition can be tested against many more independent nodes. Articles covered: 19 new sources (the 6 sources of the extended card are not double-counted in `sources`; their facts are referenced through internal citation only and are not restated here): CNA#1384216 (EVA Air June 2026 revenue, 2026-07-09), CNA#1412723 (China Airlines June 2026 revenue, 2026-07-10), CNA#1384532 (the three major container shipping lines' June 2026 revenue, 2026-07-09), CNA#1364879 (Wistron and Inventec June and Q2 2026 revenue, 2026-07-08), CNYES#1420668 (Pegatron June 2026 revenue and notebook shipments, 2026-07-10), CNA#1381846 (ASUS June 2026 revenue, 2026-07-09), CNYES#1386938 (Delta Electronics June 2026 revenue, 2026-07-09), CNYES#1376903 (Lite-On Technology June 2026 revenue, 2026-07-09), CNA#1464353 (TSMC self-compiled June 2026 revenue, 2026-07-13), CNA#1491664 (TWSE and TPEx June 2026 revenue statistics, 2026-07-14), TWSE#1588254 (MOPS material information: Hon Hai announcing on behalf of subsidiary Foxconn (Far East) Limited a planned disposal of ZDT shares, 2026-07-17), CNA#1574313 (CNA report on the same filing, 2026-07-17), CNA#1567548 (Taiwan equities intraday plunge on 2026-07-17), CNA#1613772 (Taiwan equities close on 2026-07-20), CNYES#1613636 (foreign brokerages raising Wistron and Wiwynn shipment and earnings forecasts, 2026-07-20), STORM#1616332 (SpaceX order rumour, 2026-07-20 07:05 UTC), STORM#1616803 (Musk's public denial the same day, 2026-07-20 10:00 UTC), CNA#1563862 (a Taipei representative office director's speech at an Ohio forum, 2026-07-16), CNYES#1601199 (Foxconn Industrial Internet lighthouse factory white paper, 2026-07-19). Selection method: "Trigger x whole-database synthesis" (Phase A ran the ainews full-database search; Phase B was written according to the editor's persona). Taking ANK-2026-07-06-002 as the extension target, material published between 2026-07-08 and 2026-07-20 that bears on the same "AI server contract manufacturing chain" proposition and that has an independent disclosing party was retrieved from the whole database. Each added layer explicitly implements one of ADD_EVIDENCE / CORROBORATE / CONNECT / CONTEXTUALIZE / REVISE / CHALLENGE. Editorial angle (global structural layer): not "company X did Y", but "how many independent nodes tested the same proposition within two weeks, which nodes pointed the other way, and which rumour was denied by the party concerned" — the protagonist is the testing structure itself, not any single company. Official anchor calibration: official_count_verified = 0, official_count_raw = 0, official_attribution_unverified_count = 0. The TWSE/MOPS material information is reproduced verbatim (the same treatment used by the extended card), but this shift is REVIEW_ONLY and performed no secondary check against the live MOPS page; it must not be written up or cited as an officially verified endorsement. This card carries no Wikidata Q identifiers (this shift performed no registry curl verification; when in doubt, none is attached).

Unit note: Counts are given as plain figures and amounts in standard English scales, with the Chinese-language original's own calibration shown in parentheses on first use — for example "NT$18.7 billion (NT$187 億)". 億 = 10^8 and 兆 = 10^12, so NT$187 億 is NT$18.7 billion and NT$5兆2477億 is NT$5.2477 trillion; 萬 = 10^4, so the source's 1.85萬櫃 is written here as 18,500 racks. These are lossless scale re-expressions of the source figures, not new numbers: no amount has been rounded, restated at a different precision, or converted between currencies, and each parenthetical preserves the exact numeral a reader would trace back to the Chinese-language source and to the Chinese and Japanese editions of this card. Unless otherwise marked (US dollars, or brokerage forecasts of rack/unit counts), all amounts are in New Taiwan dollars.

TL;DR

The extended card ANK-2026-07-06-002 proposed the "volume-and-price double check" on 2026-07-06 from two observation points. Two weeks later, the same proposition has been tested against many more independent nodes.

The logistics end has been upgraded to a disclosed figure: EVA Air disclosed June 2026 cargo revenue of NT$6.652 billion, up 48.34% from the same month of 2025, the second highest for any June on record. The company's attribution reads verbatim: "demand for AI supply chain related products such as semiconductors and servers remained at a high level" (CNA#1384216, reported 2026-07-09). [F-001][F-002] Separately, China Airlines disclosed June 2026 cargo revenue of NT$8.085 billion (NT$80.85 億), up 51.6% from the same month of 2025 (CNA#1412723, reported 2026-07-10). [F-003][F-004]

But not all transport belongs to the same story: the three major container shipping lines also reported higher June 2026 revenue, yet the operators' stated reasons were tariff policy uncertainty, worsening global port congestion, ten consecutive weeks of gains in the SCFI, and peak-season surcharges — the source text does not mention AI at all (CNA#1384532, reported 2026-07-09). [F-005]

The contract manufacturing end went from one company to six, and a clear counterexample appeared: Wistron, Inventec, ASUS, Delta Electronics and Lite-On Technology each disclosed June and Q2 2026 figures (CNA#1364879, CNA#1381846, CNYES#1386938, CNYES#1376903) [F-006][F-008][F-011][F-012][F-013]. However, Pegatron's cumulative revenue for January to June 2026 was NT$518.553 billion (NT$5185.53 億), down 3.9% from the same period of 2025, and its June 2026 notebook shipments were 650,000 units, down 34.34% from the same month of 2025 (CNYES#1420668, reported 2026-07-10). [F-010] "The AI server boom" does not mean "every contract manufacturer is setting records."

The headwinds are written into the companies' own guidance: Wistron said component shortages such as memory are pushing up end-product prices and that its Q3 2026 notebook shipments will decline from the previous quarter (CNA#1364879) [F-007]. Inventec said customer pull-ins mean Q3 2026 shipments will fall, and that while servers are still expected to rise from the previous quarter, "affected by material shortages, actual performance will depend on component availability" (CNA#1364879). [F-009] These are guidance statements each company made about itself, not rebuttals of any peer.

The whole-market calibration: the Taiwan Stock Exchange reported that 1046 listed companies (excluding finance and insurance and Sanshang Investment Holding) posted June 2026 revenue of NT$5.2477 trillion (NT$5兆2477億), up 47.16% from the same month of 2025, with 735 companies growing and 311 declining, and stated that "no industry recorded a revenue decline in June" (CNA#1491664, reported 2026-07-14). [F-015][F-016] TSMC's self-compiled June 2026 revenue was NT$442.68 billion (NT$4426.8 億), up 67.9% from NT$263.709 billion (NT$2637.09 億) in the same month of 2025 (CNA#1464353, reported 2026-07-13). [F-014]

The regulatory filings have a sequel: Foxconn (Far East) Limited — the same material subsidiary whose cash dividend resolution appears as [F-010] in the extended card — filed further MOPS material information on 2026-07-17, announcing a board resolution to dispose of 5,544,000 common shares of Zhen Ding Tech Holding. The stated purpose is "to realise investment gains"; unit price and disposal gain are both "to be announced separately after calculation based on the actual disposal price" (TWSE#1588254). [F-017][F-018]

Fundamentals and share prices did not move in the same direction during this window: on 2026-07-17 Taiwan equities fell more than 2000 points intraday (CNA#1567548) [F-019]; on 2026-07-20 the TAIEX closed at 42449.70 points, down 221.57 points from the previous trading day (CNA#1613772). [F-020]

The final layer is information hygiene: on 2026-07-20 a rumour circulated that SpaceX had placed an AI server rack order with Hon Hai (STORM#1616332) [F-022]; the same day, SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk posted on X rejecting it, saying "This is fake news" (STORM#1616803). [F-023] This card therefore adopts none of that order's figures as a factual basis — the first field test of the adoption threshold the extended card set for itself. [J-004]

Calibration: this card has zero verified official anchors; figures from different sources are always stated in separate sentences with their own attribution, and no difference, multiple or percentage is computed; "highest for the same period on record" does not mean "all-time high" (see the Calibration section).

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Why extend: placing a two-point inference inside a multi-node test

On 2026-07-06 we published ANK-2026-07-06-002. That card pinned the "AI server contract manufacturing chain" to two observation points: the volume at the contract manufacturing shipment end (Hon Hai's self-compiled revenue) and the price at the air logistics end (EVA Air's president saying AI-related cargo accounted for roughly 40 to 50 percent of its cargo business, with average US route freight rates above US$10 per kilogram). That card framed itself honestly: the two source articles never name each other, the juxtaposition is at the market level only, and no causal link between the companies is constructed.

But those were still two points. Two points can be joined into a line, yet they cannot tell you how sturdy that line is or where it breaks.

Two weeks later, the situation changed — not because a bigger story broke, but because more independent parties each published their own numbers. Aviation went from one company to two, and from an executive's spoken ratio to disclosed revenue. Contract manufacturing went from one company to six, and one of them clearly pointed the other way. Upstream and whole-market statistics supplied the ruler for "how high counts as high". The regulatory filings of the same subsidiary produced a sequel. And share prices moved the other way over the same window.

What this card records is not "AI is hot". It is how many mutually independent nodes tested one proposition in two weeks, and which of those nodes pointed the other way.

Layer 1, ADD_EVIDENCE: the logistics end moves from "executive commentary" to "disclosed monthly revenue"

[F-008] of the extended card was a spoken ratio from an executive — EVA Air's president saying, in a report dated 2026-06-29, that AI-related cargo accounted for roughly 40 to 50 percent of the company's cargo business. A spoken ratio can be true, but it is not a company-disclosed figure that can be reconciled against anything.

Ten days later, the same company published the numbers. EVA Air disclosed June 2026 cargo revenue of NT$6.652 billion, up 48.34% from the same month of 2025 and the second highest for any June on record; June 2026 passenger revenue of NT$14.132 billion (NT$141.32 億), up 19.04% from the same month of 2025, a record; and consolidated revenue of NT$23.472 billion (NT$234.72 億), up 26.58% from the same month of 2025, a new monthly consolidated revenue record (CNA#1384216, reported 2026-07-09). [F-001] Cumulatively, EVA Air's January to June 2026 passenger revenue was NT$81.095 billion (NT$810.95 億) and consolidated revenue for the same period was NT$128.286 billion (NT$1282.86 億), both the highest for that period on record (CNA#1384216). [F-002]

What matters is not the size of the number but that the level of the attribution changed. EVA Air's cargo attribution reads verbatim: "In June market demand remained robust; under end-of-quarter effects, demand for AI supply chain related products such as semiconductors and servers remained at a high level, while demand from cross-border e-commerce, perishables and other cargo sources was simultaneously strong" (CNA#1384216). [F-002] This is still the company's own attribution, not a third-party breakdown, and this card reproduces it without verifying it. But it has moved from "a ratio one executive gave in an interview" to "a company statement issued alongside disclosed monthly revenue". The logistics end of the extended card has advanced from the commentary layer to the disclosed-figure layer — that is this card's first substantive addition.

An honest boundary must be drawn at the same time: NT$6.652 billion is total cargo revenue; the source does not break out the amount attributable to AI-related cargo. The extended card's "40 to 50 percent" and this card's June cargo revenue belong to different calibrations, different points in time and different reports. This card does not multiply one by the other and does not estimate an absolute figure for AI cargo. (See the Calibration section.)

Layer 2, CORROBORATE: a second independent operator publishing its own numbers

Separately, China Airlines disclosed June 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$21.761 billion (NT$217.61 億), up 28.82% from the same month of 2025 and continuing to set records for any single month; within that, passenger revenue was NT$11.819 billion (NT$118.19 億), up 14.84% from the same month of 2025, and cargo revenue was NT$8.085 billion, up 51.6% from the same month of 2025 (CNA#1412723, reported 2026-07-10). [F-003] China Airlines' Q2 2026 consolidated revenue was NT$63.845 billion (NT$638.45 億) and first-half 2026 consolidated revenue was NT$120.803 billion (NT$1208.03 億), both also record highs for those periods (CNA#1412723). [F-004]

China Airlines' cargo attribution reads verbatim: "June fell at the end of the second quarter, and air cargo market demand remained buoyant; beyond established high-technology cargo such as AI servers and semiconductor equipment, seasonal fruit and high-value spot cargo also contributed to revenue." Its Q3 2026 cargo outlook reads: "As transport demand for AI, semiconductor and information and communications products persists, performance in major Asian export markets is expected to remain steady", adding that "the gradual retreat in international oil prices should further improve margins" (CNA#1412723). [F-004] Guidance is guidance, not results.

Editorial observation by Takenouchi Rin (not a sentence from any source, and not a company-to-company comparison): comparing separately the figures each of the two reports above records, in the June 2026 figures each of the two carriers disclosed, the year-on-year growth rate for cargo is higher than the passenger growth rate recorded in the same report. Neither company's source text compares itself with the other, and neither makes this generalisation. This card does not sum the two carriers, does not compute the multiple of any gap, and does not compute any difference in percentage points. The observation means exactly one thing: "cargo running ahead of passenger" appeared in June 2026 in the reported figures of two independently disclosing companies, and not only in one executive's interview ratio. [J-001]

Layer 3, CONTEXTUALIZE: shipping is not the same story — this card's anti-noise layer

If AI were the only explanation, all transport should rise together. It does not.

The three major container shipping lines also reported higher June 2026 revenue: Evergreen Marine's June 2026 consolidated revenue was NT$39.141 billion (NT$391.41 億), up 12.94% from the previous month and up 30.01% from the same month of 2025, yet its first-half 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$191.668 billion (NT$1916.68 億) was down 2.44% from the same period of 2025. Yang Ming Marine Transport's June revenue was NT$16.591 billion (NT$165.91 億), up 9.85% from the previous month and up 20.18% from the same month of 2025. Wan Hai Lines' June consolidated revenue was NT$16.166 billion (NT$161.66 億), up 17.11% from the previous month and up 32.7% from the same month of 2025, with first-half 2026 revenue of NT$76.541 billion (NT$765.41 億), up 6.39% from the same period of 2025 (CNA#1384532, reported 2026-07-09). [F-005]

But the operators' stated reasons are an entirely different system: tariff policy uncertainty, worsening global port congestion, ten consecutive weekly gains in the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI), general rate increases (GRI) and peak-season surcharges (PSS) (CNA#1384532). [F-005] The source text never once mentions AI.

The value of this layer is not padding the source count; it is setting a falsification condition. The AI attribution in air cargo is explicit in the source text; the growth attribution in ocean shipping is explicitly congestion and tariffs. This card therefore forbids folding shipping growth into the AI narrative — a card that annexes every rising transport number into one story is describing atmosphere, not structure. (See the internal citation chain: our published card ANK-2026-06-28-053 recorded the same container operators' figures for the prior month and the SCFI's nine consecutive weekly gains.)

Layer 4, CORROBORATE: contract manufacturing goes from one company to six, each publishing its own

The extended card had a single company at the contract manufacturing end. Two weeks later, several companies along the same chain published their June and Q2 2026 numbers — note that these are each company's own disclosure, not anyone's cross-verification of anyone else:

• Wistron: June 2026 consolidated revenue of about NT$321.822 billion (NT$3218.22 億), up 10.9% from the previous month and up 53.9% from the same month of 2025, the second highest for any single month and the highest for any June on record; Q2 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$895.443 billion (NT$8954.43 億), up 5.8% from the previous quarter and up 62.4% from the same quarter of 2025, a record for any quarter. Shipments: 2,000,000 notebooks in June 2026 (up 300,000 units from the previous month), 800,000 desktops (up 200,000 from the previous month), 1,000,000 monitors (up 50,000 from the previous month) (CNA#1364879, reported 2026-07-08). [F-006]
• Inventec: June 2026 consolidated revenue of about NT$102.262 billion (NT$1022.62 億), breaking NT$100 billion (NT$1000 億) for the first time, up 23.5% from the previous month and up 61.6% from the same month of 2025, a record for any single month; Q2 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$269.857 billion (NT$2698.57 億), up 34.7% from the previous quarter and up 44.7% from the same quarter of 2025, a record for any quarter. Shipments: 2,400,000 notebooks in June 2026 (up 900,000 from the previous month); Q2 2026 shipments of 5,400,000 units, flat against Q1 2026 and down 3.6% from the same quarter of 2025 (CNA#1364879). [F-008]
• ASUS: June 2026 group consolidated revenue of about NT$106.723 billion (NT$1067.23 億), up 54.5% from the previous month and up 55.6% from the same month of 2025, the first single month above NT$100 billion and an all-time high; Q2 2026 group consolidated revenue of NT$257.732 billion (NT$2577.32 億), up 23.7% from the previous quarter and up 37.1% from the same quarter of 2025, an all-time quarterly high; first-half 2026 cumulative group consolidated revenue of about NT$466.106 billion (NT$4661.06 億), up 38.9% from the same period of 2025. The source attributes this to "simultaneous growth in AI server and personal computer (PC) businesses" (CNA#1381846, reported 2026-07-09). [F-011]
• Delta Electronics: June 2026 revenue of NT$65.603 billion (NT$656.03 億), up 11.3% from the previous month and up 55.4% from the same month of 2025; Q2 2026 revenue of NT$183.257 billion (NT$1832.57 億), up 15% from the previous quarter and up 47.7% from the same quarter of 2025; first-half 2026 revenue of NT$342.609 billion (NT$3426.09 億), up 41% from the same period of 2025; all three were all-time highs. June 2026 revenue mix across four business areas: power and components 50%, mobility 5%, automation 8%, infrastructure 37% (CNYES#1386938, reported 2026-07-09). [F-012]
• Lite-On Technology: June 2026 revenue of NT$18.7 billion (NT$187 億), up 8% from the previous month and up 37% from the same month of 2025; Q2 2026 revenue of NT$52.74 billion (NT$527.4 億), up 21.5% from the previous quarter and up 30.5% from the same quarter of 2025; first-half 2026 revenue of NT$96.1 billion (NT$961 億), up 25% from the same period of 2025. Structurally the entry most worth recording: the cloud and IoT division accounted for 56% of June 2026 revenue, and that division's revenue rose by more than 80% from the same month of 2025 (CNYES#1376903, reported 2026-07-09). [F-013]

Lite-On's entry deserves separate emphasis because it is one of the few figures in this card that carries a divisional structural calibration — not "the company grew", but "which division grew and what share it holds". That kind of calibration contributes far more to factual density than adding another company's headline year-on-year growth rate.

Layer 5, CHALLENGE: the headwinds are written into the companies' own guidance

[F-004] of the extended card captured optimistic directional guidance for Q3 2026 at the contract manufacturing end. Along the same chain, two other companies issued conditional guidance on 2026-07-08:

• Wistron said that because component shortages such as memory are pushing up end-product prices, Q3 2026 notebook shipments will decline from the previous quarter, while the outlook for desktop and monitor shipments has been revised up from an earlier quarter-on-quarter decline to flat against Q2 2026; it maintains its view that AI-related business will keep growing quarter by quarter (CNA#1364879). [F-007]
• Inventec said that because customers pulled in orders, Q3 2026 shipments will fall; servers are still expected to rise from the previous quarter, but affected by material shortages, actual performance will depend on component availability (CNA#1364879). [F-009]

This must be stated flatly: these are guidance statements three companies each made about themselves, not peers rebutting anyone, and certainly not anyone being "called out". The three are describing different product mixes and different customer structures. This card does one thing only — juxtapose honestly the same industry, the same point in time and three tones of guidance, and note that two of them explicitly flag the same class of risk: component availability.

That is what the global structural layer should actually record. When several companies along one supply chain each mention "component shortages", "material shortages" and "customer pull-ins" in the same week, that is not one company's operational issue but a sign that the next bottleneck on this chain is shifting from the demand side to the supply side — although that sentence is itself an editorial inference by Takenouchi Rin, is not any company's own wording, and is a generalisation no source article makes. [J-002]

Layer 6, CHALLENGE: Pegatron is the counterexample, and a counterexample is worth more than corroboration

If this card only listed the companies setting records, it would be a clippings file. The real testing value is here.

Pegatron disclosed June 2026 revenue of NT$91.296 billion (NT$912.96 億), down 4.9% from the previous month and up 15.9% from the same month of 2025; Q2 2026 revenue of NT$274.448 billion (NT$2744.48 億), up 12.4% from the previous quarter and up 2.7% from the same quarter of 2025; and cumulative January to June 2026 revenue of NT$518.553 billion, down 3.9% from the same period of 2025. On notebook shipments: 650,000 units in June 2026, up 13.04% from the previous month and down 34.34% from the same month of 2025; 1,700,000 to 1,800,000 units in Q2 2026, down 2.78% from the previous quarter and down 26.32% from the same quarter of 2025 (CNYES#1420668, reported 2026-07-10). [F-010]

The same electronics contract manufacturing sector, the same June 2026: cumulative first-half revenue down year on year, and notebook shipments down by more than 30% year on year. The source also records the company's statement that, benefiting from continued growth in the server business, it is "striving for tenfold growth this year" — that is a target the company set out itself, not an achieved result; this card reproduces it without verifying it and does not cite it as fact (CNYES#1420668). [F-010]

Pegatron's entry draws the boundary of the whole proposition: "the AI server boom" is a real phenomenon visible in several companies' reported figures; but it does not mean "electronics contract manufacturing is setting records across the board." Between the two sit product mix, customer structure and the sheer size of non-AI business. The extended card lacks this layer — not because it erred, but because on 2026-07-06 it could not see a figure disclosed on 2026-07-10.

Layer 7, CONTEXTUALIZE / REVISE: putting "a record" back on the whole-market ruler

The extended card made one company's "highest for any second quarter on record" the protagonist. Two weeks later, two larger rulers appeared.

Upstream: TSMC disclosed self-compiled June 2026 revenue of NT$442.68 billion, up 6.2% from the previous month and up 67.9% from NT$263.709 billion in the same month of 2025, an all-time monthly revenue high that surpassed the previous monthly record of NT$416.975 billion (NT$4169.75 億) set in May 2026; Q2 2026 revenue was NT$1.27 trillion, growing nearly 12% from NT$1.1341 trillion (NT$1兆1341億) in Q1 2026, also a record for any quarter; and cumulative January to June 2026 revenue was NT$2.404484 trillion (NT$2兆4044.84億), up 35.6% from NT$1.773046 trillion (NT$1兆7730.46億) in the same period of 2025 (CNA#1464353, reported 2026-07-13). [F-014] This figure was disclosed seven days after the extended card was published — the extended card could not physically have included it.

Whole market: the Taiwan Stock Exchange issued a press release reporting that 1046 listed companies in total (excluding finance and insurance and Sanshang Investment Holding) posted June 2026 revenue of NT$5.2477 trillion, up 47.16% from the same month of 2025, with 735 companies growing and 311 declining; cumulative first-half 2026 listed-company revenue was NT$27.8581 trillion (NT$27兆8581億), up 32.1% from the same period of 2025, with 670 growing and 376 declining. The exchange further identified the industries with the largest June 2026 revenue growth as electronic component distribution (benefiting from AI applications and next-generation memory demand), semiconductors (benefiting from AI chip demand) and computers and peripherals (benefiting from AI server demand), and stated that "no industry recorded a revenue decline in June" (CNA#1491664, reported 2026-07-14). [F-015] The Taipei Exchange reported that 891 over-the-counter listed companies posted June 2026 revenue of NT$351.9 billion (NT$3519 億), up 38% from the same month of 2025, with 621 growing, 267 declining and 3 flat; cumulative first-half 2026 revenue was NT$1.8537 trillion (NT$1兆8537億), up 25% from the same period of 2025; the Taipei Exchange identified the main declining industries as construction materials and engineering, plastics, and optoelectronics (CNA#1491664). [F-016]

This is this card's most substantive REVISE of the extended card: the extended card read one company's record as an independent signal, whereas the whole-market calibration shows that "setting a record" in June 2026 was not an isolated case but a broad phenomenon occurring simultaneously at 735 of 1046 listed companies. Against that backdrop, one company's record needs to be read more cautiously as an individual company's strong performance.

Hard calibration rule (what this card does not do): [F-001] of the extended card records a single company's self-compiled monthly year-on-year revenue growth, whereas the 47.16% cited in this layer is an exchange's aggregate statistic — the two are compiled on entirely different bases (company self-closing versus exchange aggregation). This card does not place the two figures in the same sentence, does not judge whether anyone "beat" or "lagged" the market, and computes no gap. Any juxtaposition must be in separate sentences with separate attribution and must state explicitly that the calibrations differ. [J-003]

Layer 8, CONNECT + ADD_EVIDENCE: the regulatory sequel from the same subsidiary

The extended card included three TWSE material information filings dated 2026-06-26, of which [F-010] was a board resolution by the material subsidiary Foxconn (Far East) Limited to pay a cash dividend. Three weeks later, the same subsidiary filed again.

Reproducing the MOPS material information filing verbatim (TWSE#1588254, 2026-07-17): Hon Hai announced, on behalf of subsidiary Foxconn (Far East) Limited, a board resolution to dispose of common shares of Zhen Ding Tech Holding Co., Ltd. Transaction date 115/7/17 to 115/7/17 (ROC year 115 = 2026 CE); board approval date 17 July of ROC year 115; transaction volume 5,544,000 shares; unit price and total transaction amount "to be announced separately after calculation based on the actual disposal price"; the disposal gain (or loss) likewise "to be announced separately after calculation based on the actual disposal price"; relationship with the subject company: an investee accounted for under the equity method. Cumulative holdings to date: 299,971,627 shares (after deducting the shares planned for disposal); cumulative holding amount NT$35,236,347,902; shareholding ratio 27.05%; no restriction of rights. Share of total assets 10.34%; share of owners' equity 22.54%; working capital NT$-317,913,506 thousand. Specific purpose of the acquisition or disposal: to realise investment gains. Related-party transaction: no. [F-017]

CNA reported the same matter the same day: Hon Hai announced that the board of subsidiary Foxconn (Far East) Limited had resolved to dispose of 5,544,000 common shares of ZDT to realise investment gains; ZDT is an investee of that subsidiary accounted for under the equity method, and the disposal gain will be announced separately after calculation based on the actual disposal price. After the placement is completed, the subsidiary is expected still to hold 299,971,627 ZDT shares, a shareholding of about 27.05%. The report added that ZDT's shares closed limit-down that day at NT$521, down NT$57 from the previous trading day, and that its share price has risen by a cumulative NT$379 since the start of 2026, a gain of about 2.67 times (CNA#1574313, reported 2026-07-17). [F-018]

Why this layer is a genuine extension of the event chain rather than an unrelated filing bolted on: the same material subsidiary, within three weeks, first resolved on 2026-06-26 to pay a cash dividend (already recorded as [F-010] of the extended card, sourced from the TWSE material information filing cited there) and then on 2026-07-17 announced a planned disposal of holdings whose stated purpose is "to realise investment gains". The extended card could see the first half; it could not see the second.

And again, stated flatly: these are two independent announcements. Neither filing text refers to the other. This card does not present the dividend and the disposal as one financing arrangement, does not infer the use of funds, and constructs no causal link between them. It juxtaposes the sequence honestly, nothing more. [J-003]

Layer 9, CHALLENGE: fundamentals and share prices did not move in the same direction in this window

The extended card was written on 2026-07-06 and recorded record fundamentals. Two weeks later, the market these companies trade in moved the other way.

2026-07-17: Taiwan equities fell more than 2000 points intraday, breaking below 44000 points. As of 10:40 that day, the TAIEX was down 2049.85 points from the previous trading day at 43575.13 points, a fall of 4.49%, with turnover of about NT$637.3 billion (NT$6373 億); electronics shares were down 4.48% from the previous trading day, financials down 0.45%, and the over-the-counter index down more than 5%. Among heavyweights, TSMC fell NT$100 intraday from the previous trading day to NT$2370, a drop of more than 4% (the company's investor conference was held on 2026-07-16, see [F-014]); UMC, Yageo and Nan Ya Plastics were limit-down; MediaTek and Delta Electronics fell more than 5% from the previous trading day; Hon Hai fell more than 2% from the previous trading day. Substrate names also plunged: Nan Ya PCB and Unimicron fell more than 8% from the previous trading day, while Kinsus and ZDT fell more than 9% from the previous trading day. External backdrop: US equities closed lower, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down 4.29% from the previous session and TSMC's ADR down 2.32%; Japanese equities fell nearly 4% intraday from the previous session and Korea fell more than 6%. About 1500 listed and OTC names declined intraday, and the count of shares priced above NT$1000 fell back to 46 (CNA#1567548, reported 2026-07-17). [F-019]

2026-07-20: the TAIEX closed at 42449.70 points, down 221.57 points from the previous trading day, a fall of 0.52%, with turnover of NT$983.863 billion (NT$9838.63 億); the intraday range exceeded 1100 points, and the index rebounded more than 400 points early in the session to regain 43000 points at one stage. TSMC closed NT$30 higher than the previous trading day at NT$2320, up 1.31%; Hon Hai closed 0.21% higher than the previous trading day at NT$234.5; UMC was sold down to limit-down at NT$130 intraday on volume above 290,000 lots. The source attributes this to "the spread of deleveraging selling pressure in US chip stocks" and "selling pressure from margin reduction" (CNA#1613772, reported 2026-07-20). [F-020]

Over the same period third-party forecasts were being raised: foreign brokerages lifted their 2026 GPU and ASIC shipment outlooks for Wistron and Wiwynn and raised earnings estimates. Foreign brokerages forecast that Wistron's full-year 2026 shipments of NVIDIA NVL72 racks will rise to about 18,500 racks and revised VR200 shipments in Q4 2026 up to 1000 units; Wistron expects AI servers to keep trending up in 2026 and general-purpose servers also to grow by a double-digit percentage from 2025. For Wiwynn, the outlooks of its four major North American customers — Microsoft, Meta, AWS and Oracle — are all described as positive (CNYES#1613636, reported 2026-07-20). [F-021] These are brokerage estimates, not company announcements and not results; this card marks them as third-party forecasts and does not cite them as fact.

Editorial observation by Takenouchi Rin (not a sentence from any source): the extended card recorded disclosed fundamental figures for June and Q2 2026; this layer records market price facts from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-20. In this window, the two did not move in the same direction. That sentence describes only the temporal coexistence of two independently established sets of facts and asserts no causation — the source attributes the market move to deleveraging in US chip stocks and margin-reduction selling, not to deteriorating fundamentals. [J-002]

What this card explicitly does not do (important): [F-005] of the extended card records the opening auction reference price on the ex-dividend date of 2026-07-02, while this layer records the closing price of 2026-07-20. These belong to two different reports, two different points in time and two different price calibrations (opening auction reference price versus closing price). This card does not subtract one from the other, does not compute a percentage decline, and certainly does not judge whether the dividend gap has been filled — such a judgement requires the ex-dividend reference price and a complete series of trades, and this shift did not obtain that series, so it makes no such judgement. Any conclusion derived by subtracting the two price figures in this card is not a claim of this card. [J-003]

Layer 10, CHALLENGE: one rumour, one denial — the first field test of this card's adoption threshold

On 2026-07-20 a piece of news appeared that would tempt any report on the AI server supply chain.

The rumour side: a report said SpaceX planned to expand its large AI server deployment and had already placed a rack order with Hon Hai, citing the technology outlet Wccftech for specification and timing descriptions; the report itself states that "it remains unclear whether this order will be produced entirely by Hon Hai" (STORM#1616332, 2026-07-20 07:05 UTC). The order value, rack count, GPU count and shipment schedule carried in that report are not reproduced here. [F-022]

The denial side: later the same day, another report recorded that SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk posted on X rejecting that report outright, saying "This is fake news" (quoted verbatim) (STORM#1616803, 2026-07-20 10:00 UTC). [F-023]

How this card handles it is the reason this card exists:

1. This card adopts none of that order's figures as a factual basis — no order value, no rack count, no GPU count, no shipment schedule, no market-share expectation. The two paragraphs above deliberately record only the events themselves: that such a rumour appeared and that the party concerned publicly denied it the same day. They do not carry over the numbers inside the rumour.
2. This card does not adjudicate who is right. We have not independently verified whether the order exists. What is recorded is the verifiable information event: a rumour appeared on 2026-07-20 and was publicly denied by the party concerned the same day.
3. This is the extended card's discipline field-tested in the extension: the extended card's self-imposed rule was to adopt only disclosed or filed figures and to construct no causal links between companies. Two weeks later, a rumour large enough to eclipse every figure in this card appeared — and it fails the same threshold, because it is neither a company disclosure nor a filing, and the party concerned publicly denied it the same day.

The value of a citation-grade card lies not only in what it includes, but in what it chooses to leave out on the day when it could have included anything. [J-004]

Industry-positioning addendum (an attributed commentary layer, not verified fact)

Two contemporaneous items belong to the commentary layer. This card includes them but marks their attribution and nature explicitly and does not treat them as verified fact:

• Lei Yen-feng, director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago, said in a keynote at the "Exploring AI Forum" in Ohio that Taiwan produces 90% of the world's AI servers and advanced AI chips — this is a speaker's statement (relayed in an overseas office press release), not a verified statistic; this card does not cite it as fact and does not extrapolate from it. The same article also records that AI data centre construction in Ohio is growing rapidly; that Ohio was ranked first in the United States for business investment climate by CNBC in 2026; that Taiwan was already the fourth largest trading partner of the United States last year; that Taiwan's investment in the United States accounts for 40% of its total outbound investment while its investment in China has fallen from more than 80% of the total to 3.8%; that Taiwan and the United States signed a reciprocal trade agreement earlier this year under which Taiwanese firms plan US$250 billion (US$2500 億) of investment in the United States with US$250 billion of government credit guarantees; and that a data centre project in Ohio involving the Hon Hai group, TECO Electric and Machinery and Japan's SoftBank continues to be planned (CNA#1563862, reported 2026-07-16). [F-024]
• Foxconn Industrial Internet, a Hon Hai affiliate, released a white paper titled "2026 Lighthouse Factory Interpretation", advancing its "AI Makes AI" strategy; since its Shenzhen Longhua plant was selected among the world's first cohort of lighthouse factories in 2019, the company says it has cumulatively built 9 lighthouse factories internally and enabled 13 externally, including 2 sustainability lighthouse factories; as of June 2026 there were 238 WEF-certified lighthouse factories worldwide (CNYES#1601199, reported 2026-07-19). [F-025] This is a white paper and self-described achievement published by the company itself: a company statement, not third-party verification.

This section sits at the end rather than the opening because its evidentiary grade is the lowest. Placing the commentary layer ahead of the figures layer is where a great deal of industry reporting starts to go wrong.

Calibration (source limits, collected once; every substantive warning in this card is listed here in full exactly once)

• Official anchors: official_count_verified = 0, official_count_raw = 0, official_attribution_unverified_count = 0. This card has zero verified official anchors. The TWSE/MOPS material information (TWSE#1588254) is reproduced verbatim (the same treatment used by the extended card), but this shift is REVIEW_ONLY and performed no secondary check against the live MOPS page. The TWSE and Taipei Exchange June revenue statistics (CNA#1491664) are CNA's relay of their press releases; we did not independently verify them with either institution. Nothing in this card may be cited as an officially verified endorsement.
• Company self-compiled / company-disclosed calibration: the revenue and shipment figures for EVA Air, China Airlines, Wistron, Inventec, Pegatron, ASUS, Delta Electronics, Lite-On Technology, TSMC and the three container lines were all disclosed by the companies themselves and relayed by CNA or cnyes; we did not verify them independently. Each company's attribution of its own business (such as "demand for AI supply chain related products remained at a high level" or "simultaneous growth in AI server and PC businesses") is the company's own attribution, unaccompanied by any breakdown in the source; this card reproduces without verifying.
• "Highest for the same period on record" is not "all-time high" (inherited from the extended card's discipline): wherever this card reproduces "highest for the same period on record" or "second highest for the same period on record", the calibration is a comparison against the same period in prior years and does not mean a high against all periods. Where the source explicitly says "all-time high" (TSMC for June 2026; ASUS for June 2026 and Q2 2026; Delta Electronics for June 2026, Q2 2026 and the first half of 2026), this card reproduces the source's calibration and likewise does not extrapolate it to other periods.
• No cross-source sentence merging: EVA Air and China Airlines; Hon Hai's self-compiled figures and exchange aggregate statistics; the ex-dividend opening auction reference price and the 2026-07-20 close — these belong to different reports, different compilation bases and different calibrations. This card always states them in separate sentences with their own attribution. Any comparison is marked explicitly as an editorial observation by Takenouchi Rin and computes no difference, no multiple, no percentage and renders no verdict on who outperformed whom.
• No judgement on filling the dividend gap: judging whether a dividend gap has been filled requires the ex-dividend reference price and a complete series of trades. This shift did not obtain that series, so this card makes no judgement on whether Hon Hai has filled its dividend gap and derives no conclusion by subtracting the price figures it reports.
• No borrowing of the shipping attribution: the stated reasons for the three container lines' June 2026 revenue growth are tariff policy uncertainty, worsening global port congestion, ten consecutive weekly SCFI gains and peak-season surcharges; the source does not mention AI. This card forbids folding shipping growth into the AI narrative.
• Guidance is not results: the statements by Wistron, Inventec, China Airlines and Delta Electronics' chairman about Q3 2026 or the current year are all directional guidance, mostly without specific figures in the source; Inventec itself notes that for servers "actual performance will depend on component availability". Whether guidance is met must await subsequently disclosed figures.
• Company-stated targets are not facts: Pegatron's "striving for tenfold growth this year" is a target the company set out itself; Foxconn Industrial Internet's lighthouse factory results are self-described achievements in a company-published white paper; "Taiwan produces 90% of the world's AI servers and advanced AI chips" is a speaker's statement (relayed in an overseas office press release). None of the three is verified fact and none may be cited as fact.
• Third-party forecasts are not results: the foreign brokerage figures of about 18,500 NVL72 racks for Wistron and 1000 VR200 units in Q4 are brokerage estimates, not company announcements and not results.
• Rumours are not adopted: for the SpaceX order rumour of 2026-07-20, no figure whatsoever — total value, rack count, GPU count, shipment schedule or market-share expectation — is adopted as fact by this card. The party concerned (SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk) had already rejected it publicly on X the same day, saying "This is fake news". This card records only the information event of "a rumour appeared and the party concerned denied it the same day".
• No causation between companies: the figures of the various companies listed in this card neither verify nor refute one another; Wistron's and Inventec's headwind guidance for Q3 2026 is guidance each gave about itself, not commentary on any peer. This card constructs no commercial relationship or causal link between companies.
• ROC calendar conversion: ROC years in the TWSE filing are converted as "ROC year + 1911 = CE year" and marked in the main text (ROC year 115 = 2026 CE).
• Currency and units: unless otherwise marked (US dollars, or brokerage forecasts of rack/unit counts), all amounts in this card are in New Taiwan dollars. Amounts are given in standard English scales with the source's own 億／兆 calibration in parentheses on first use, and counts as plain figures (see the Unit note near the top); these are lossless re-expressions of the source figures, with no rounding, no change of precision and no currency conversion.
• This card generates no figure absent from the sources, computes no ratio, total, difference or conversion; every comparative term (increase, decrease, month on month, quarter on quarter, year on year, rise, fall) states its time basis within the same sentence.

Significance self-check (extension card versus extended card; house-format section 2.5 hard check)

Self-check (house-format section 2.5, "no padding"): if the sentence "this article extends ANK-2026-07-06-002" is removed, what remains is — 19 independent sources the extended card does not contain at all; June passenger and cargo revenue each disclosed by two airlines; June and Q2 figures each disclosed by six contract manufacturers (including one clear year-on-year decline as a counterexample); an upstream all-time monthly high; whole-market statistics across 1046 listed companies; a MOPS material information sequel dated 2026-07-17; the market facts of two trading days; and one rumour denied the same day by the party concerned. All of these are facts the extended card physically could not see on 2026-07-06. This card adds no empty F-Unit devoid of information.

FAQ

Q: How does this card differ from ANK-2026-07-06-002, and why extend it?

The extended card proposed the "volume-and-price double check" on the AI server contract manufacturing chain on 2026-07-06 from two observation points (the volume at the contract manufacturing shipment end and the price at the air logistics end). That was an inference from two points. What this card records is how many mutually independent nodes tested the same proposition two weeks later — and which of those nodes pointed the other way.

Specifically: the logistics end was upgraded from an executive's spoken ratio to company-disclosed monthly revenue (CNA#1384216) [F-001]; aviation went from one company to two (CNA#1412723) [F-003]; contract manufacturing went from one company to six with Pegatron appearing as a clear counterexample (CNYES#1420668) [F-010]; upstream and whole-market statistics disclosed after the extended card were added (CNA#1464353, CNA#1491664) [F-014][F-015]; the same subsidiary's regulatory sequel of 2026-07-17 was added (TWSE#1588254) [F-017]; and the direction of share prices in the same window plus one rumour denied by the party concerned were recorded (CNA#1613772, STORM#1616803) [F-020][F-023].

Q: Of EVA Air's NT$6.652 billion in June 2026 cargo revenue, how much is AI-related?

The source does not break it out. This card does not estimate it.

EVA Air disclosed June 2026 cargo revenue of NT$6.652 billion, up 48.34% from the same month of 2025 and the second highest for any June on record, with the company's attribution stating verbatim that "demand for AI supply chain related products such as semiconductors and servers remained at a high level" — but it does not break out the amount or share attributable to AI-related cargo (CNA#1384216, reported 2026-07-09) [F-001][F-002]. The "roughly 40 to 50 percent of the cargo business" in [F-008] of the extended card is the president's spoken ratio in a report dated 2026-06-29, and it belongs to a different calibration, a different point in time and a different report from this card's June cargo revenue. This card does not multiply the two and does not estimate an absolute figure for AI cargo.

Q: Both airlines' cargo revenue grew — does that prove AI server demand is strong?

Two companies each disclosed their own figures, and each attribution mentions AI-related cargo sources — but these are each company's own disclosure and each company's own attribution, not verification by any third party.

EVA Air's June 2026 cargo revenue was NT$6.652 billion, up 48.34% from the same month of 2025 (CNA#1384216) [F-001]. China Airlines' June 2026 cargo revenue was NT$8.085 billion, up 51.6% from the same month of 2025 (CNA#1412723) [F-003]. The two sets of figures come from two different reports. This card does not sum them, does not compare the gap and computes no multiple. More importantly, the counter-evidence: over the same period the three major container lines also reported higher June 2026 revenue, yet the operators' attribution is tariff uncertainty and worsening global port congestion and does not mention AI at all (CNA#1384532) [F-005] — not every increase in transport belongs to the same story.

Q: Does "the AI server boom" mean every electronics contract manufacturer is setting records?

No. Pegatron is the most important counterexample in this card.

Pegatron's cumulative January to June 2026 revenue was NT$518.553 billion, down 3.9% from the same period of 2025; its June 2026 notebook shipments were 650,000 units, down 34.34% from the same month of 2025; and its Q2 2026 notebook shipments of 1,700,000 to 1,800,000 units were down 26.32% from the same quarter of 2025 (CNYES#1420668, reported 2026-07-10) [F-010]. The same report carries the company statement about "striving for tenfold growth this year" — that is a target the company set out itself, not a result.

In the same June 2026, Wistron, Inventec, ASUS, Delta Electronics and Lite-On Technology each disclosed growth figures [F-006][F-008][F-011][F-012][F-013], while Pegatron declined year on year on a cumulative basis. "The AI server boom" is a real, verifiable phenomenon, but it does not mean "electronics contract manufacturing is setting records across the board."

Q: Is the contract manufacturers' Q3 2026 guidance a rebuttal of the optimistic view?

No. This is guidance each company gave about itself, not peer commentary.

Wistron said that because component shortages such as memory are pushing up end-product prices, Q3 2026 notebook shipments will decline from the previous quarter, the outlook for desktops and monitors has been revised up from an earlier quarter-on-quarter decline to flat against Q2 2026, and its view that AI-related business will keep growing quarter by quarter is maintained (CNA#1364879) [F-007]. Inventec said that because customers pulled in orders, Q3 2026 shipments will fall, and that while servers are still expected to rise from the previous quarter, "affected by material shortages, actual performance will depend on component availability" (CNA#1364879) [F-009].

This card does only one thing: juxtapose honestly the same industry, the same point in time (reports dated 2026-07-08) and different tones of guidance, with two companies explicitly flagging the same class of risk — component availability. The line that "the bottleneck on this chain may be shifting from the demand side to the supply side" is an editorial inference by Takenouchi Rin, not the wording of any source.

Q: Hon Hai went ex-dividend on 2 July 2026 and closed at NT$234.5 on 20 July 2026 — does that count as filling the dividend gap?

This card makes no such judgement.

CNA reported on 2026-07-20 that Hon Hai closed 0.21% higher than the previous trading day at NT$234.5 (CNA#1613772) [F-020]. [F-005] of the extended card records the opening auction reference price on the ex-dividend date of 2026-07-02. These two figures belong to two different reports, two different points in time and two different price calibrations (opening auction reference price versus closing price).

Judging whether a dividend gap has been filled requires the ex-dividend reference price and a complete series of trades, and this shift did not obtain that series. This card therefore does not subtract one from the other, computes no percentage decline and renders no judgement on filling the gap. Any conclusion derived by subtracting the two price figures in this card is not a claim of this card.

Q: How special was "setting a record" in June 2026?

Put back on the whole-market ruler, a record in June 2026 was not an isolated case.

The Taiwan Stock Exchange reported that 1046 listed companies in total (excluding finance and insurance and Sanshang Investment Holding) posted June 2026 revenue of NT$5.2477 trillion, up 47.16% from the same month of 2025, with 735 companies growing and 311 declining, and stated that "no industry recorded a revenue decline in June" (CNA#1491664, reported 2026-07-14) [F-015]. Upstream, TSMC's self-compiled June 2026 revenue was NT$442.68 billion, up 67.9% from NT$263.709 billion in the same month of 2025, an all-time monthly high (CNA#1464353, reported 2026-07-13) [F-014].

Calibration warning: a company's self-compiled figures and an exchange's aggregate statistics are compiled on entirely different bases (company self-closing versus exchange aggregation). This card does not place the two in the same sentence, renders no verdict on beating or lagging the market, and computes no gap.

Q: What does the Hon Hai subsidiary's filing of 2026-07-17 have to do with the extended card?

The entity that made this filing, Foxconn (Far East) Limited, is precisely the same material subsidiary whose 2026-06-26 cash dividend resolution appears as [F-010] in the extended card — this is a sequel the extended card could not see at the time.

Per the MOPS material information filing (TWSE#1588254, 2026-07-17): the board resolved to dispose of 5,544,000 common shares of Zhen Ding Tech Holding; the unit price, total transaction amount and disposal gain are all "to be announced separately after calculation based on the actual disposal price"; cumulative holdings to date are 299,971,627 shares, cumulative holding amount NT$35,236,347,902, shareholding ratio 27.05%; the specific purpose is stated as "to realise investment gains" [F-017]. CNA's report the same day adds that ZDT closed limit-down that day at NT$521, down NT$57 from the previous trading day (CNA#1574313) [F-018].

Limits: these are two independent announcements whose texts do not refer to each other. This card does not present the dividend and the disposal as one financing arrangement, does not infer the use of funds, constructs no causation and only juxtaposes the sequence honestly. This shift is REVIEW_ONLY and performed no secondary check against the live MOPS page.

Q: Why does this card carry not a single figure from the SpaceX order reported on 2026-07-20?

Because the party concerned publicly denied it the same day, and the rumour therefore fails our adoption threshold.

On 2026-07-20 a report said SpaceX had already placed an AI server rack order with Hon Hai, while itself stating that "it remains unclear whether this order will be produced entirely by Hon Hai" (STORM#1616332, 07:05 UTC) [F-022]. Later the same day, another report recorded that SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk posted on X rejecting it with "This is fake news" (STORM#1616803, 10:00 UTC) [F-023].

This card therefore adopts none of that order's figures — no total value, no rack count, no GPU count, no shipment schedule, no market-share expectation. It also does not adjudicate who is right, recording only the verifiable information event of "a rumour appeared and the party concerned publicly denied it the same day". This is the first field test of the extended card's threshold of adopting only disclosed or filed figures. [J-004]

Q: Have the figures in this card been officially verified?

No. This card has zero verified official anchors (official_count_verified = 0).

All revenue, shipment, index and price figures were disclosed by the companies themselves and relayed by CNA or cnyes, or are media relays of TWSE / Taipei Exchange press releases. The TWSE/MOPS material information is reproduced verbatim, but this shift is REVIEW_ONLY and performed no secondary check against the live MOPS page. We have independently verified none of these figures, and nothing in this card may be cited as an officially verified endorsement (full calibration in the Calibration section).

F-Units

F-001: EVA Air disclosed June 2026 cargo revenue of NT$6.652 billion, up 48.34% from the same month of 2025 and the second highest for any June on record; June 2026 passenger revenue of NT$14.132 billion, up 19.04% from the same month of 2025, a record; and consolidated revenue of NT$23.472 billion, up 26.58% from the same month of 2025, a new monthly consolidated revenue record (CNA#1384216, reported 2026-07-09)

• source: CNA #1384216
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607090327.aspx
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: June 2026 (single month); reported 2026-07-09
• caveat: Company-disclosed figure relayed by CNA; not independently verified by this site. "Second highest for any June on record" is a comparison against the same month in prior years, not an all-time second place. Cargo revenue is a total-cargo calibration; the source does not break out the amount or share attributable to AI-related cargo
• layer: ADD_EVIDENCE (upgrades the extended card's executive spoken ratio into a company-disclosed monthly revenue figure)

F-002: EVA Air's January to June 2026 passenger revenue was NT$81.095 billion and consolidated revenue for the same period was NT$128.286 billion, both the highest for that period on record. The company's cargo attribution reads verbatim: "In June market demand remained robust; under end-of-quarter effects, demand for AI supply chain related products such as semiconductors and servers remained at a high level, while demand from cross-border e-commerce, perishables and other cargo sources was simultaneously strong." The passenger attribution records that American routes were driven by the traditional peak season and Computex Taipei with a load factor of 90%, that the Washington D.C. route launched on 26 June 2026 flew full, and that European routes maintained a 90% load factor (CNA#1384216, reported 2026-07-09)

• source: CNA #1384216
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607090327.aspx
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: January to June 2026 cumulative; reported 2026-07-09
• caveat: Company-disclosed figures and the company's own attribution relayed by CNA; not independently verified by this site. The attribution carries no breakdown in the source and this card reproduces without verifying. "Highest for that period on record" is a comparison against January to June in prior years
• layer: ADD_EVIDENCE

F-003: China Airlines disclosed June 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$21.761 billion, up 28.82% from the same month of 2025 and continuing to set records for any single month; within that, passenger revenue was NT$11.819 billion, up 14.84% from the same month of 2025, and cargo revenue was NT$8.085 billion, up 51.6% from the same month of 2025 (CNA#1412723, reported 2026-07-10)

• source: CNA #1412723
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607100098.aspx
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: June 2026 (single month); reported 2026-07-10
• caveat: Company-disclosed figure relayed by CNA; not independently verified by this site. The figures in this F-Unit and EVA Air's figures come from two different reports; merging them into one sentence, summing them or computing gaps is forbidden
• layer: CORROBORATE (a second independent air carrier publishing its own figures)

F-004: China Airlines' Q2 2026 consolidated revenue was NT$63.845 billion and first-half 2026 consolidated revenue was NT$120.803 billion, both also record highs for those periods. The cargo attribution reads verbatim: "June fell at the end of the second quarter, and air cargo market demand remained buoyant; beyond established high-technology cargo such as AI servers and semiconductor equipment, seasonal fruit and high-value spot cargo also contributed to revenue." The Q3 2026 cargo outlook reads: "As transport demand for AI, semiconductor and information and communications products persists, performance in major Asian export markets is expected to remain steady", adding that "the gradual retreat in international oil prices should further improve margins" (CNA#1412723, reported 2026-07-10)

• source: CNA #1412723
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607100098.aspx
• confidence: medium
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: Q2 2026 and first-half 2026 (results); Q3 2026 (guidance, reported 2026-07-10)
• caveat: The Q3 portion is directional guidance, not results, and the source contains no Q3 figures. The attribution is the company's own statement with no breakdown in the source
• layer: CORROBORATE

F-005: The three major container shipping lines' June 2026 revenue: Evergreen Marine's consolidated revenue was NT$39.141 billion, up 12.94% from the previous month and up 30.01% from the same month of 2025, while first-half 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$191.668 billion was down 2.44% from the same period of 2025; Yang Ming Marine Transport's June revenue was NT$16.591 billion, up 9.85% from the previous month and up 20.18% from the same month of 2025; Wan Hai Lines' June consolidated revenue was NT$16.166 billion, up 17.11% from the previous month and up 32.7% from the same month of 2025, with first-half 2026 revenue of NT$76.541 billion, up 6.39% from the same period of 2025. The operators' attribution reads: tariff policy uncertainty, worsening global port congestion, ten consecutive weekly gains in the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI), general rate increases (GRI) and peak-season surcharges (PSS) — the source does not mention AI at all (CNA#1384532, reported 2026-07-09)

• source: CNA #1384532
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607090336.aspx
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: June 2026 (single month) and first-half 2026 cumulative; reported 2026-07-09
• caveat: Company-disclosed figures relayed by CNA; not independently verified by this site. The source attributes growth to port congestion and tariffs and does not mention AI; folding shipping growth into the AI narrative is forbidden. Evergreen Marine's first-half decline coexists with its June year-on-year increase; these are different time calibrations
• layer: CONTEXTUALIZE (anti-noise layer: sets a falsification condition and shows that not all transport growth belongs to the same narrative)

F-006: Wistron's June 2026 consolidated revenue was about NT$321.822 billion, up 10.9% from the previous month and up 53.9% from the same month of 2025, the second highest for any single month and the highest for any June on record; Q2 2026 consolidated revenue was NT$895.443 billion, up 5.8% from the previous quarter and up 62.4% from the same quarter of 2025, a record for any quarter. Shipments: 2,000,000 notebooks in June 2026 (up 300,000 units from the previous month), 800,000 desktops (up 200,000 from the previous month), 1,000,000 monitors (up 50,000 from the previous month) (CNA#1364879, reported 2026-07-08)

• source: CNA #1364879
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607080362.aspx
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: June 2026 (single month) and Q2 2026; reported 2026-07-08
• caveat: Company-disclosed figure relayed by CNA; not independently verified by this site. "Highest for any June on record" is a comparison against the same month in prior years. The figures in this F-Unit are not compared in the same sentence with any other company's figures
• layer: CORROBORATE (a second contract manufacturer publishing its own figures)

F-007: Wistron's Q3 2026 guidance (reproduced verbatim): because component shortages such as memory are pushing up end-product prices, Q3 2026 notebook shipments will decline from the previous quarter, while the outlook for desktop and monitor shipments has been revised up from an earlier quarter-on-quarter decline to flat against Q2 2026; the company maintains its view that AI-related business will keep growing quarter by quarter (CNA#1364879, reported 2026-07-08)

• source: CNA #1364879
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607080362.aspx
• confidence: medium
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: Q3 2026 guidance (reported 2026-07-08)
• caveat: Directional guidance, not results; the source contains no Q3 figures. This is Wistron's guidance about its own business, not commentary on any peer; it must not be written up as any company being "called out"
• layer: CHALLENGE (guidance carrying component risk appearing in the same industry at the same point in time)

F-008: Inventec's June 2026 consolidated revenue was about NT$102.262 billion, breaking NT$100 billion for the first time, up 23.5% from the previous month and up 61.6% from the same month of 2025, a record for any single month; Q2 2026 consolidated revenue was NT$269.857 billion, up 34.7% from the previous quarter and up 44.7% from the same quarter of 2025, a record for any quarter. Shipments: 2,400,000 notebooks in June 2026 (up 900,000 from the previous month); Q2 2026 shipments of 5,400,000 units, flat against Q1 2026 and down 3.6% from the same quarter of 2025 (CNA#1364879, reported 2026-07-08)

• source: CNA #1364879
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607080362.aspx
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: June 2026 (single month) and Q2 2026; reported 2026-07-08
• caveat: Company-disclosed figure relayed by CNA; not independently verified by this site. The record Q2 2026 revenue and the 3.6% decline in that same quarter's notebook shipments from the same quarter of 2025 coexist, but they are different metrics (value versus units) and must not be inferred from one another
• layer: CORROBORATE

F-009: Inventec's Q3 2026 guidance (reproduced verbatim): because customers pulled in orders, Q3 2026 shipments will fall; servers are still expected to rise from the previous quarter, but affected by material shortages, actual performance will depend on component availability (CNA#1364879, reported 2026-07-08)

• source: CNA #1364879
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607080362.aspx
• confidence: medium
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: Q3 2026 guidance (reported 2026-07-08)
• caveat: Directional guidance, not results; the source contains no Q3 figures, and the company itself notes that server performance "will depend on component availability". This is Inventec's guidance about its own business, not commentary on any peer
• layer: CHALLENGE

F-010: Pegatron disclosed June 2026 revenue of NT$91.296 billion, down 4.9% from the previous month and up 15.9% from the same month of 2025; Q2 2026 revenue of NT$274.448 billion, up 12.4% from the previous quarter and up 2.7% from the same quarter of 2025; and cumulative January to June 2026 revenue of NT$518.553 billion, down 3.9% from the same period of 2025. Notebook shipments: 650,000 units in June 2026, up 13.04% from the previous month and down 34.34% from the same month of 2025; 1,700,000 to 1,800,000 units in Q2 2026, down 2.78% from the previous quarter and down 26.32% from the same quarter of 2025. Company statement: benefiting from continued growth in the server business, it is "striving for tenfold growth this year" (CNYES#1420668, reported 2026-07-10)

• source: CNYES #1420668
• source_url: https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/6530845
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: June 2026 (single month), Q2 2026 and January to June 2026 cumulative; reported 2026-07-10
• caveat: Company-disclosed figure relayed by cnyes; not independently verified by this site. "Striving for tenfold growth this year" is a target the company set out itself, not a result, and must not be cited as fact. The cumulative first-half year-on-year decline coexists with the June year-on-year increase; these are different time calibrations
• layer: CHALLENGE (this card's most important counterexample: the same electronics contract manufacturing sector, yet cumulative revenue and notebook shipments declined year on year)

F-011: ASUS's June 2026 group consolidated revenue was about NT$106.723 billion, up 54.5% from the previous month and up 55.6% from the same month of 2025, the first single month above NT$100 billion and an all-time high; Q2 2026 group consolidated revenue was NT$257.732 billion, up 23.7% from the previous quarter and up 37.1% from the same quarter of 2025, an all-time quarterly high; first-half 2026 cumulative group consolidated revenue was about NT$466.106 billion, up 38.9% from the same period of 2025. The source's attribution: "simultaneous growth in AI server and personal computer (PC) businesses" (CNA#1381846, reported 2026-07-09)

• source: CNA #1381846
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607090269.aspx
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: June 2026 (single month), Q2 2026 and first-half 2026 cumulative; reported 2026-07-09
• caveat: Company-disclosed figure relayed by CNA; not independently verified by this site. "All-time high" is the source's own calibration, reproduced here without extrapolation to other periods. The attribution is the company's own statement with no breakdown in the source
• layer: CORROBORATE

F-012: Delta Electronics' June 2026 revenue was NT$65.603 billion, up 11.3% from the previous month and up 55.4% from the same month of 2025; Q2 2026 revenue was NT$183.257 billion, up 15% from the previous quarter and up 47.7% from the same quarter of 2025; first-half 2026 revenue was NT$342.609 billion, up 41% from the same period of 2025; June, Q2 and first-half revenue were all all-time highs. June 2026 revenue mix across four business areas: power and components 50%, mobility 5%, automation 8%, infrastructure 37%. Chairman Ping Cheng had previously signalled that, apart from the first quarter, operations this year are unlikely to show pronounced seasonality; that the main growth driver is power and cooling demand from AI data centres; that capacity is expected to remain tight for the next one to two years; and that the company has new capacity coming online or under construction in Thailand, Chongqing in China, and the United States (CNYES#1386938, reported 2026-07-09)

• source: CNYES #1386938
• source_url: https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/6529815
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: June 2026 (single month), Q2 2026 and first-half 2026 cumulative (results); the chairman's remarks are prior signalling cited by the report (guidance)
• caveat: Company-disclosed figure relayed by cnyes; not independently verified by this site. The chairman's description of this year's operations and capacity over the next one to two years is guidance and a company statement, not results. The four-business mix is a June 2026 single-month calibration
• layer: CORROBORATE

F-013: Lite-On Technology's June 2026 revenue was NT$18.7 billion, up 8% from the previous month and up 37% from the same month of 2025; Q2 2026 revenue was NT$52.74 billion, up 21.5% from the previous quarter and up 30.5% from the same quarter of 2025; first-half 2026 revenue was NT$96.1 billion, up 25% from the same period of 2025. Divisional structure: the cloud and IoT division accounted for 56% of June 2026 revenue, and that division's revenue rose more than 80% from the same month of 2025; the optoelectronics division accounted for 15% of the total and grew more than 10% from the same month of 2025; the information and consumer electronics division accounted for 29% of the total and grew more than 10% from the previous month. The source's attribution: continued strong demand for power management systems including high-end server power for AI and cloud computing and high-efficiency battery backup units (BBU) (CNYES#1376903, reported 2026-07-09)

• source: CNYES #1376903
• source_url: https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/6525633
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: June 2026 (single month), Q2 2026 and first-half 2026 cumulative; reported 2026-07-09
• caveat: Company-disclosed figure relayed by cnyes; not independently verified by this site. "More than 80%" and "more than 10%" are the source's range descriptions rather than precise figures; this card reproduces without estimating. Divisional shares are a June 2026 single-month calibration
• layer: CORROBORATE (one of the few sources in this card carrying a divisional structural calibration)

F-014: TSMC disclosed self-compiled June 2026 revenue of NT$442.68 billion, up 6.2% from the previous month and up 67.9% from NT$263.709 billion in the same month of 2025, an all-time monthly revenue high surpassing the previous monthly record of NT$416.975 billion set in May 2026; Q2 2026 revenue was NT$1.27 trillion, growing nearly 12% from NT$1.1341 trillion in Q1 2026, also a record for any quarter; cumulative January to June 2026 revenue was NT$2.404484 trillion, up 35.6% from NT$1.773046 trillion in the same period of 2025. The company had previously guided Q2 2026 quarterly revenue to US$39 billion to US$40.2 billion (US$390 億 to US$402 億), up 10% from the previous quarter and up 32% from the same quarter of 2025 (assuming an average Q2 exchange rate of about NT$31.7 per US dollar); April and May 2026 revenue combined was NT$827.7 billion (NT$8277 億); the investor conference was held on 2026-07-16 (CNA#1464353, reported 2026-07-13)

• source: CNA #1464353
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607130134.aspx
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: June 2026 (single month, self-compiled), Q2 2026 and January to June 2026 cumulative; reported 2026-07-13
• caveat: Self-compiled figures disclosed by the company and relayed by CNA; not independently verified by this site. Disclosed on 2026-07-13, seven days after the extended card was published on 2026-07-06, which therefore could not physically have included it. The US dollar revenue target and exchange rate assumption are the company's prior guidance, not results
• layer: CONTEXTUALIZE (the upstream ruler)

F-015: The Taiwan Stock Exchange issued a press release reporting that 1046 listed companies in total (excluding finance and insurance and Sanshang Investment Holding) posted June 2026 revenue of NT$5.2477 trillion, up 47.16% from the same month of 2025, with 735 companies growing and 311 declining; cumulative first-half 2026 listed-company revenue was NT$27.8581 trillion, up 32.1% from the same period of 2025, with 670 growing and 376 declining. The exchange identified the industries with the largest June 2026 revenue growth as electronic component distribution (benefiting from AI applications and next-generation memory demand), semiconductors (benefiting from AI chip demand) and computers and peripherals (benefiting from AI server demand), and stated that "no industry recorded a revenue decline in June" (CNA#1491664, reported 2026-07-14)

• source: CNA #1491664
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607140291.aspx
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: June 2026 (single month) and first-half 2026 cumulative; reported 2026-07-14
• caveat: CNA's relay of a Taiwan Stock Exchange press release; not independently verified with the exchange by this site and does not constitute an officially verified endorsement. The population is 1046 listed companies and excludes finance and insurance and Sanshang Investment Holding. This aggregate statistic is compiled on a different basis from any single company's self-compiled figure; merging them into one sentence or rendering an outperform/underperform verdict is forbidden
• layer: CONTEXTUALIZE + REVISE (returns "setting a record" to the whole-market calibration)

F-016: The Taipei Exchange reported that 891 over-the-counter listed companies (including 30 KY companies) posted June 2026 revenue of NT$351.9 billion, up 38% from the same month of 2025, with 621 growing, 267 declining and 3 flat; cumulative first-half 2026 OTC revenue was NT$1.8537 trillion, up 25% from the same period of 2025, with 609 growing, 281 declining and 1 flat. The Taipei Exchange identified semiconductors, computers and peripherals, and electronic component distribution as the main industries driving June 2026 revenue growth, and construction materials and engineering, plastics, and optoelectronics as the main declining industries (CNA#1491664, reported 2026-07-14)

• source: CNA #1491664
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607140291.aspx
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: June 2026 (single month) and first-half 2026 cumulative; reported 2026-07-14
• caveat: CNA's relay of Taipei Exchange statistics; not independently verified by this site and does not constitute an officially verified endorsement. The population is 891 OTC-listed companies, different from the 1046 listed-company population; the two must not be mixed or summed
• layer: CONTEXTUALIZE

F-017: MOPS material information (reproduced verbatim): Hon Hai announced, on behalf of subsidiary Foxconn (Far East) Limited, a board resolution to dispose of common shares of Zhen Ding Tech Holding Co., Ltd. Transaction date 115/7/17 to 115/7/17 (ROC year 115 = 2026 CE); board approval date 17 July of ROC year 115; transaction volume 5,544,000 shares; unit price and total transaction amount "to be announced separately after calculation based on the actual disposal price"; disposal gain (or loss) likewise "to be announced separately after calculation based on the actual disposal price"; relationship with the subject company: an investee accounted for under the equity method. Cumulative holdings to date 299,971,627 shares (after deducting the shares planned for disposal); cumulative holding amount NT$35,236,347,902; shareholding ratio 27.05%; no restriction of rights. Share of total assets 10.34%; share of owners' equity 22.54%; working capital NT$-317,913,506 thousand. Specific purpose of the acquisition or disposal: to realise investment gains. Related-party transaction: no (TWSE#1588254, 2026-07-17)

• source: TWSE #1588254
• source_url: https://mops.twse.com.tw/mops/#/web/t05st01
• confidence: high
• basis: official_statement
• ticker: 2317
• period: 2026-07-17 (board approval date and transaction date)
• caveat: Material information reproduced verbatim. This shift is REVIEW_ONLY and performed no secondary check against the live MOPS page; it must not be written up or cited as an officially verified endorsement. Unit price, total transaction amount and disposal gain are absent from the source and are to be announced separately based on the actual disposal price; this card does not estimate them. ROC years converted as ROC year + 1911. This filing and the 2026-06-26 cash dividend resolution recorded in the extended card are two independent announcements; this card infers no causation and no use of funds
• layer: CONNECT + ADD_EVIDENCE (a regulatory sequel from the same material subsidiary)

F-018: CNA's report on the same filing: Hon Hai announced that the board of subsidiary Foxconn (Far East) Limited had resolved to dispose of 5,544,000 common shares of ZDT to realise investment gains; ZDT is an investee of that subsidiary accounted for under the equity method, and the disposal gain will be announced separately after calculation based on the actual disposal price; Hon Hai estimates that after the placement is completed the subsidiary will still hold 299,971,627 ZDT shares, a shareholding of about 27.05%. The report adds that ZDT closed limit-down that day at NT$521, down NT$57 from the previous trading day, and that its share price has risen by a cumulative NT$379 since the start of 2026, a gain of about 2.67 times (CNA#1574313, reported 2026-07-17)

• source: CNA #1574313
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607170290.aspx
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: 2026-07-17 (filing date and that day's close)
• caveat: As recorded in CNA's report; not independently verified by this site. "A cumulative NT$379 rise, about 2.67 times" is the report's year-to-date 2026 calibration, not a single-day move. This card estimates no derived ratios
• layer: ADD_EVIDENCE (an independent report on the same filing plus that day's market facts)

F-019: Taiwan equities fell more than 2000 points intraday on 2026-07-17, breaking below 44000 points: as of 10:40 that day the TAIEX was down 2049.85 points from the previous trading day at 43575.13 points, a fall of 4.49%, with turnover of about NT$637.3 billion; electronics shares were down 4.48% from the previous trading day, financials down 0.45%, and the OTC index down more than 5%. TSMC fell NT$100 intraday from the previous trading day to NT$2370, a drop of more than 4%; UMC, Yageo and Nan Ya Plastics were limit-down; MediaTek and Delta Electronics fell more than 5% from the previous trading day; Hon Hai fell more than 2% from the previous trading day. Substrate names plunged: Nan Ya PCB and Unimicron fell more than 8% from the previous trading day, Kinsus and ZDT more than 9%. External backdrop: US equities closed lower, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down 4.29% from the previous session and TSMC's ADR down 2.32%; Japanese equities fell nearly 4% intraday from the previous session and Korea fell more than 6%. About 1500 listed and OTC names declined intraday, and shares priced above NT$1000 fell back to 46 (CNA#1567548, reported 2026-07-17)

• source: CNA #1567548
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607170059.aspx
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: 2026-07-17 intraday (as of 10:40, not the close)
• caveat: Every figure in this F-Unit is an intraday price or index level, not a closing figure. As recorded in CNA's report; not independently verified by this site. Individual stock moves are intraday changes against the previous trading day
• layer: CHALLENGE (fundamental figures and the market's direction over the same window do not agree)

F-020: Taiwan equities' close on 2026-07-20: the TAIEX closed at 42449.70 points, down 221.57 points from the previous trading day, a fall of 0.52%, with turnover of NT$983.863 billion; the intraday range exceeded 1100 points and the index rebounded more than 400 points early in the session to regain 43000 points at one stage. TSMC closed NT$30 higher than the previous trading day at NT$2320, up 1.31%; Hon Hai closed 0.21% higher than the previous trading day at NT$234.5; UMC was sold down to limit-down at NT$130 intraday on volume above 290,000 lots. The source's attribution: "the spread of deleveraging selling pressure in US chip stocks" and "selling pressure from margin reduction" (CNA#1613772, reported 2026-07-20)

• source: CNA #1613772
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607200124.aspx
• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: 2026-07-20 (close)
• caveat: As recorded in CNA's report; not independently verified by this site. This card does not subtract this closing price from the ex-dividend opening auction reference price recorded in the extended card, computes no percentage decline and renders no judgement on filling the dividend gap (such a judgement requires the ex-dividend reference price and a complete series of trades, which this shift did not obtain)
• layer: CHALLENGE

F-021: Foreign brokerages raised their 2026 GPU and ASIC shipment outlooks for Wistron and Wiwynn and lifted earnings estimates: they forecast Wistron's full-year 2026 shipments of NVIDIA NVL72 racks rising to about 18,500 racks and revised VR200 shipments in Q4 2026 up to 1000 units; Wistron expects AI servers to keep trending up in 2026 and general-purpose servers to grow by a double-digit percentage from 2025. For Wiwynn, the outlooks of its four major North American customers Microsoft, Meta, AWS and Oracle are all positive, with AWS Trainium3 ramping through the second half of 2026 and AMD Helios racks also due to ship. Share prices that day: Wistron opened higher at NT$142 and reached NT$147 intraday, quoted at NT$144 as of 11:20, up more than 3% from the previous trading day on volume above 36,000 lots; Wiwynn opened higher at NT$4725 and reached NT$4845 intraday, up more than 4% from the previous trading day, quoted at NT$4715 as of 11:20, a gain of about 2% (CNYES#1613636, reported 2026-07-20)

• source: CNYES #1613636
• source_url: https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/6540305
• confidence: medium
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: Full-year 2026 shipment outlook (third-party forecast); share prices are 2026-07-20 intraday (as of 11:20, not the close)
• caveat: The 18,500 racks and 1000 units are foreign brokerage estimates, not company announcements and not results; they must not be cited as fact. Share prices are intraday quotes, not closing prices. As recorded in cnyes's report; not independently verified by this site
• layer: CONTEXTUALIZE (the third-party forecast layer, kept separate from the company-disclosed results layer)

F-022: The rumour of 2026-07-20 (this card adopts none of its figures as fact): a report said SpaceX planned to expand its large AI server deployment and had already placed a rack order with Hon Hai, citing the technology outlet Wccftech for specification and timing descriptions; the report itself states that "it remains unclear whether this order will be produced entirely by Hon Hai" (STORM#1616332, 2026-07-20 07:05 UTC)

• source: STORM #1616332
• source_url: https://www.storm.mg/article/11150431
• confidence: low
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: 2026-07-20 07:05 UTC (time of report)
• caveat: This F-Unit records only the information event that such a rumour appeared on 2026-07-20. No figure of that order — total value, rack count, GPU count, shipment schedule or market-share expectation — is adopted as fact by this card or carried into the main text. The party concerned publicly denied it the same day (see F-023). The report itself states that the order's attribution is unclear
• layer: CHALLENGE (information hygiene: demonstrating the adoption threshold)

F-023: Public denial by the party concerned the same day: SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk posted on X rejecting the above report outright, saying "This is fake news" (quoted verbatim) (STORM#1616803, 2026-07-20 10:00 UTC)

• source: STORM #1616803
• source_url: https://www.storm.mg/article/11150504
• confidence: medium
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: 2026-07-20 10:00 UTC (time of report; the denial post was the same day)
• caveat: A public post by the party concerned as recorded in the report; this site did not independently verify the original post on X. This card renders no judgement on whether the order exists and no judgement on who is right; it records only the verifiable information event of "a rumour appeared and the party concerned publicly denied it the same day"
• layer: CHALLENGE

F-024: Commentary layer (not a verified statistic): Lei Yen-feng, director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago, said in a keynote at the "Exploring AI Forum" held on 2026-07-16 in Columbus, Ohio, that AI data centre construction in Ohio is growing rapidly, that Taiwan produces 90% of the world's AI servers and advanced AI chips, and that the potential for cooperation is very large. The same article records that Ohio was ranked first in the United States for business investment climate by CNBC in 2026; that Taiwan was already the fourth largest trading partner of the United States last year; that Taiwan's investment in the United States accounts for 40% of its total outbound investment while its investment in China has fallen from more than 80% of the total to 3.8%; that Taiwan and the United States signed a reciprocal trade agreement earlier this year under which Taiwanese firms plan US$250 billion of investment in the United States with US$250 billion of government credit guarantees; and that a data centre project in Ohio involving the Hon Hai group, TECO Electric and Machinery and Japan's SoftBank continues to be planned (CNA#1563862, reported 2026-07-16)

• source: CNA #1563862
• source_url: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607170018.aspx
• confidence: low
• basis: official_statement
• period: 2026-07-16 (date of the forum and the speech)
• caveat: "Taiwan produces 90% of the world's AI servers and advanced AI chips" is a speaker's statement (relayed in an overseas office press release), not a verified statistic; this card does not cite it as fact and does not extrapolate from it. The other trade and investment figures also come from the same speech or press release and were not independently verified by this site
• layer: CONTEXTUALIZE (the commentary layer on industry positioning)

F-025: Company statement layer: Foxconn Industrial Internet, a Hon Hai affiliate, released a white paper titled "2026 Lighthouse Factory Interpretation", advancing an "AI Makes AI" strategy as its main thread; since its Shenzhen Longhua plant was selected among the world's first cohort of lighthouse factories in 2019, the company says it has cumulatively built 9 lighthouse factories internally and enabled 13 externally, including 2 sustainability lighthouse factories; as of June 2026 there were 238 WEF (World Economic Forum) certified lighthouse factories worldwide; the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2026 (WAIC 2026) recently opened in Shanghai (CNYES#1601199, reported 2026-07-19)

• source: CNYES #1601199
• source_url: https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/6539462
• confidence: low
• basis: news_aggregation
• period: Reported 2026-07-19; the cumulative lighthouse factory counts are as of the report, the global figure of 238 as of June 2026
• caveat: The white paper and the cumulative counts are self-described achievements published by the company itself: a company statement, not third-party verification. This card reproduces without verifying. The global figure of 238 is the WEF certification count as recorded in the report; this site did not check it with the WEF
• layer: CONTEXTUALIZE (the company statement layer)

J-Units

J-001: In the June 2026 figures each of the two airlines disclosed, the year-on-year growth rate for cargo is higher than the passenger growth rate recorded in the same report — this is an editorial observation by Takenouchi Rin, made by separately comparing the figures each of two different reports records; neither company's source text compares itself with the other and neither makes this generalisation. This card does not sum the two carriers, computes no multiple of any gap and computes no difference in percentage points. The observation means one thing only: "cargo running ahead of passenger" appeared in June 2026 in the reported figures of two independently disclosing companies, and not only in one executive's interview ratio

• confidence: medium
• basis: news_aggregation

J-002: Several companies along one supply chain each mentioning "component shortages such as memory", "material shortages" and "customer pull-ins" in the same batch of reports dated 2026-07-08 can be read as the chain's bottleneck shifting from the demand side to the supply side — this is an editorial inference by Takenouchi Rin, is not any company's own wording, and is a generalisation no source article makes. Likewise, the fact that "the disclosed fundamental figures for June and Q2 2026" and "the market price facts from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-20" did not move in the same direction in this window describes only the temporal coexistence of two independently established sets of facts and asserts no causation — the source attributes the market move to deleveraging in US chip stocks and margin-reduction selling, not to deteriorating fundamentals

• confidence: medium
• basis: news_aggregation

J-003: Three no-merge calibration rules in this card: (1) a single company's self-compiled revenue and the aggregate statistics of the Taiwan Stock Exchange or Taipei Exchange are compiled on different bases (company self-closing versus exchange aggregation), so merging them into one sentence, judging outperformance against the market and computing gaps are all forbidden; (2) the 2026-06-26 cash dividend resolution recorded in the extended card and the 2026-07-17 planned disposal recorded here are two independent announcements whose texts do not refer to each other, so presenting them as one financing arrangement and inferring the use of funds or causation are forbidden, and only the sequence is juxtaposed; (3) the ex-dividend opening auction reference price and the 2026-07-20 closing price belong to different reports, different points in time and different price calibrations, so subtraction, computing a percentage decline and judging whether the dividend gap has been filled are all forbidden (such a judgement requires the ex-dividend reference price and a complete series of trades, which this shift did not obtain)

• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation

J-004: This card's handling of the SpaceX order rumour of 2026-07-20 is the first field test of the adoption threshold set by the extended card (adopt only disclosed or filed figures and construct no causal links between companies): the rumour is neither a company disclosure nor a filing, and the party concerned (SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk) had already rejected it publicly on X the same day with "This is fake news" — this card therefore adopts none of that order's figures as a factual basis (no total value, no rack count, no GPU count, no shipment schedule, no market-share expectation), records only the verifiable information event of "a rumour appeared and the party concerned publicly denied it the same day", and renders no judgement on who is right. The value of a citation-grade card lies not only in what it includes, but in what it chooses to leave out on the day when it could have included anything

• confidence: high
• basis: news_aggregation

P-Units

P-001: Whether the component risks Wistron and Inventec cited for Q3 2026 (memory and other component shortages, material shortages, customer pull-ins) materialise — track both companies' subsequently disclosed monthly revenue and shipment figures, and whether other peers use similar language (open)

P-002: Whether Pegatron's trend of cumulative January to June 2026 revenue being down 3.9% from the same period of 2025 reverses in the second half of 2026 — the company's own statement that "the peak season for consumer electronics falls in the third quarter and for communications products in the fourth, and with quarter-by-quarter growth in the server business the second half is expected to outperform the first" is company guidance, not results, and must await subsequently disclosed figures (open)

P-003: The actual disposal price, total transaction amount and disposal gain for the 5,544,000 Zhen Ding Tech Holding shares that Foxconn (Far East) Limited plans to dispose of per TWSE#1588254 — the filing states these are "to be announced separately after calculation based on the actual disposal price", so subsequent MOPS material information must be tracked (open)

P-004: Whether the Taiwan equity correction of mid-to-late July 2026 persists, and whether fundamental figures and market prices realign — track the July 2026 revenue disclosures (early August 2026) and subsequent market action (open)

P-005: Whether any company announcement or filing-level confirmation or correction emerges regarding the SpaceX order rumour of 2026-07-20 — until company-disclosure or filing-grade evidence appears, this site adopts none of that rumour's figures (open)

同事件・三視角 / Three Perspectives on the Same Event / 同一イベント・三つの視点

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Internal citation chain

This card links visibly, relevantly and transparently back to 6 previously published cards on this site (including the extension target itself; 5 excluding it):

• [ANK-2026-07-06-002](https://ainews.washinmura.jp/ainews/en/ank/ANK-2026-07-06-002), "The 'Volume-and-Price Double Check' on the AI Server Contract Manufacturing Chain" (published 2026-07-06) → the extension target of this card. That card proposed the two-point inference of a "volume-and-price double check" from two observation points. This card records how the same proposition was tested by more independent nodes two weeks later, and inherits all of that card's calibration discipline ("highest for the same period on record" is not "all-time high"; construct no causation between companies; adopt only disclosed or filed figures). This card does not restate figures the target card already carries; those facts are referenced back to the original card in [F-xxx] form.
• [ANK-2026-07-10-003](https://ainews.washinmura.jp/ainews/en/ank/ANK-2026-07-10-003) (June 2026 quick-reference table of Taiwan semiconductor and AI supply chain revenue) → CONNECT. That card is a June 2026 revenue quick reference and states explicitly that "TSMC's June revenue is not contained in this card's source material, and no estimate is filled in" — this card supplies TSMC's self-compiled June 2026 figures disclosed on 2026-07-13 [F-014] and the whole-market statistics disclosed on 2026-07-14 [F-015][F-016], filling that card's honest blank directly. Figures in the two cards each carry their own source and report date and are not merged.
• [ANK-2026-07-06-004](https://ainews.washinmura.jp/ainews/en/ank/ANK-2026-07-06-004) (Taiwan equity correction, chapter three: "range-bound consolidation under tight liquidity") → CONNECT. That card describes a consolidation pattern under tight liquidity; this card carries it forward with the intraday plunge of 2026-07-17 [F-019] and the close of 2026-07-20 [F-020], where the source attributes the move to "the spread of deleveraging selling pressure in US chip stocks" and "selling pressure from margin reduction" — the same liquidity thread as that card's framework.
• [ANK-2026-07-02-001](https://ainews.washinmura.jp/ainews/en/ank/ANK-2026-07-02-001) (Taiwan's AI equity rally: "a raging bull meets a grey rhino") → CONTEXTUALIZE. That card recorded two single-session plunges in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index; this card's [F-019] records that index falling 4.29% from the previous session again on 2026-07-17 — the correction did not begin only in mid-July 2026. This card neither merges nor sums the figures from the two points in time.
• [ANK-2026-06-28-053](https://ainews.washinmura.jp/ainews/en/ank/ANK-2026-06-28-053) (the three container lines' May revenue reversal and the SCFI's nine consecutive weekly gains) → CONNECT. That card records the same container operators' figures for the prior month and the SCFI's nine consecutive gains; this card's [F-005] records their June 2026 figures and the SCFI's ten consecutive weekly gains, confirming that the shipping attribution has consistently been port congestion and tariffs, with no mention of AI in the source. Figures in the two cards each carry their own month and source and are neither merged nor used to estimate a continuity differential.
• [ANK-2026-06-10-001](https://ainews.washinmura.jp/ainews/en/ank/ANK-2026-06-10-001) (TSMC's May revenue setting an all-time monthly high of NT$416.975 billion) → CONNECT. The NT$442.68 billion for June 2026 recorded in this card's [F-014] is, per the source, precisely the figure that "surpassed the previous monthly record of NT$416.975 billion set in May" — the two cards form two consecutive months of the same series, each carrying its own source and disclosure date.

Sources

1. [CNA #1384216] Central News Agency (reporter Chiang Ming-yen), "Strong travel demand: EVA Air's June revenue of NT$23.472 billion sets a record", 2026-07-09. https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607090327.aspx
2. [CNA #1412723] Central News Agency (reporter Chiang Ming-yen), "China Airlines wins on both passenger and cargo: June, second quarter and first half revenue all set records", 2026-07-10. https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607100098.aspx
3. [CNA #1384532] Central News Agency (reporter Chiang Ming-yen), "The three container shipping majors post strong June revenue; operators say freight rates will stay firm", 2026-07-09. https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607090336.aspx
4. [CNA #1364879] Central News Agency (reporter Wu Chia-hao), "Wistron's June revenue is its second highest month; Inventec tops NT$100 billion for the first time and sets a record", 2026-07-08. https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607080362.aspx
5. [CNYES #1420668] cnyes, "EMS majors' revenue: Pegatron's server business warms up, June revenue of NT$91.2 billion (NT$912 億) up more than 10% year on year", 2026-07-10. https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/6530845
6. [CNA #1381846] Central News Agency (reporter Wu Chia-hao), "ASUS's AI server and PC businesses grow together; June revenue tops NT$100 billion for the first time, an all-time high", 2026-07-09. https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607090269.aspx
7. [CNYES #1386938] cnyes, "Delta Electronics' June revenue of NT$65.6 billion (NT$656 億) sets a monthly record; Q2 and the first half also set highs", 2026-07-09. https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/6529815
8. [CNYES #1376903] cnyes, "Lite-On Technology's June revenue of NT$18.7 billion rises both year on year and month on month on strong AI server power and BBU demand", 2026-07-09. https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/6525633
9. [CNA #1464353] Central News Agency (reporter Chung Jung-feng), "TSMC's June revenue of NT$442.68 billion beats expectations; monthly and quarterly records both set", 2026-07-13. https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607130134.aspx
10. [CNA #1491664] Central News Agency (reporter Ho Hsiu-ling), "AI lifts the semiconductor supply chain: June revenue rises across listed and OTC companies", 2026-07-14. https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607140291.aspx
11. [TWSE #1588254] Taiwan Stock Exchange Market Observation Post System (MOPS) material information, "[Hon Hai] Announcement on behalf of subsidiary Foxconn (Far East) Limited of a board resolution on the planned disposal of shares in Zhen Ding Tech Holding Co., Ltd.", 2026-07-17. https://mops.twse.com.tw/mops/#/web/t05st01
12. [CNA #1574313] Central News Agency (reporter Chang Chien-chung), "Hon Hai plans to dispose of 5,544,000 ZDT shares to realise investment gains", 2026-07-17. https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607170290.aspx
13. [CNA #1567548] Central News Agency (reporter Chiang Ming-yen), "Taiwan equities fall more than 2000 points intraday as AI and heavyweight stocks plunge", 2026-07-17. https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607170059.aspx
14. [CNA #1613772] Central News Agency (reporter Wu Chia-hao), "Taiwan equities close down 221 points at 42449; TSMC rises NT$30 to regain NT$2300", 2026-07-20. https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607200124.aspx
15. [CNYES #1613636] cnyes, "Focus stocks: foreign brokerages raise Wistron and Wiwynn AI server shipment outlooks; both share prices strengthen", 2026-07-20. https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/6540305
16. [STORM #1616332] Storm Media, "Hon Hai said to win a 'mega order' from SpaceX as Musk buys AI servers [the order value carried in the original headline is not reproduced here, per this card's adoption threshold]", 2026-07-20 07:05 UTC. (This card adopts none of the order figures in that report as fact; the party concerned publicly denied it the same day, see the next entry. The original headline can be checked at the URL below) https://www.storm.mg/article/11150431
17. [STORM #1616803] Storm Media, "Hon Hai reported to have won a '[value not reproduced here] mega order' from SpaceX; Musk swiftly posts a rebuttal: this is fake news", 2026-07-20 10:00 UTC. https://www.storm.mg/article/11150504
18. [CNA #1563862] Central News Agency (reporter Liao Han-yuan), "AI data centres rise in Ohio; large potential for cooperation on Taiwanese AI servers", 2026-07-16. https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202607170018.aspx
19. [CNYES #1601199] cnyes, "Foxconn Industrial Internet releases its 2026 lighthouse factory white paper, accelerating its 'AI Makes AI' strategy", 2026-07-19. https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/6539462
20. [ANK-2026-07-06-002] (extension target; previously published card on this site) 竹之內凜 (Takenouchi Rin), "The 'Volume-and-Price Double Check' on the AI Server Contract Manufacturing Chain", 2026-07-06. https://ainews.washinmura.jp/ainews/en/ank/ANK-2026-07-06-002

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