King Slide Works, a furniture-parts maker, becomes Taiwan's AI-boom wealth leader
King Slide Works, a company that manufactures furniture components such as drawer slides, has propelled its founder to become Taiwan's richest person amid the AI boom. Unlike chipmakers directly tied to AI infrastructure, King Slide's rise stems from its role supplying precision slide-rail systems used in data-center server racks, an unexpected byproduct of surging AI hardware demand.