A Critical AI Niche Is Dominated by One Little-Known Japanese Company | WSJ
New AI Stars : Nittobo, founded in 1923, was originally a spinner of cotton and silk + Ajinomoto, the Japanese food company best known for commercializing monosodium glutamate...Yes, a textile and food company.
WSJ TOKYO—Imagine a sheet made of microscopic glass fibers, woven by a former silk maker and thinner than a human hair. A shortage of this material—essential in artificial-intelligence chips—is looming over companies including Apple and Nvidia.
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