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AI Industry • October 15, 2026

The Strange Business of Selling Machines That Make Machines That Make AI

The world’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems depend on an industrial process that would look almost absurd to someone unfamiliar with semiconductor manufacturing. To produce the chips that train and run AI models, companies must operate enormous machines that fire lasers at microscopic droplets of molten tin, manipulate light using some of the most precisely […]

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