King Slide: from cabinet handles to $43B AI supply chain winner, up 3,000% in 4 years
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-09-22
TrungTPhan highlights King Slide Works as an underrated AI supply chain winner:
- Stock up 3,000% in four years to a $43B market cap
- The Taiwanese firm started in furniture hardware in the 1980s and began making server rails in 2000
- It now controls 70%+ of the high-end server rail market; rails let data center workers pull out heavy racks to service chips and wiring without disrupting cooling
- 85-year-old founder Lin Tsung-chi is worth $16B and was briefly Taiwan's richest person
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