Chinese printed circuit board (PCB) maker Victory Giant Technology is aggressively expanding its manufacturing footprint and international order book, highlighting relentless growth momentum across China’s artificial intelligence hardware sector.The Guangdong-based company has been negotiating new orders with major US firms, as it capitalises on surging demand from makers of both graphics processing units (GPUs) and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) used in AI computing, according to a source familiar with the matter.The source added that Victory Giant’s supply pipeline for Nvidia’s next-generation Kyber rack system was “progressing smoothly”.To meet the rising demand, the company is ramping up production in its home province. It acquired a 100,000-square-metre (1.08 million sq ft) industrial land plot in the southern city of Huizhou, earmarked for an “AI high-end electronic circuit smart manufacturing” facility, according to recent public disclosures.Victory Giant did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday. The company’s Hong Kong-listed stock gained 4.4 per cent to HK$231 on Thursday.The latest moves by the PCB giant, which listed in Hong Kong in April, underscore its ambition to become a leading global supplier of high-end PCBs for AI computing, as major domestic PCB makers are in a heated race to ramp up their production capacity and gain market share.The land purchase requires a total investment of at least 3 billion yuan (US$444 million), including a minimum of 2 billion yuan dedicated to fixed assets, according to a recent filing disclosed by city authorities. The land sold for 66.5 million yuan.