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Toto expands AI chip component production amid record earnings

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Toto, a Japanese company renowned for its bidets, is significantly expanding its role in the AI chip supply chain. The company's advanced ceramics division, which produces electrostatic chucks essential for memory chip fabrication, has become a major profit driver, now accounting for over half of Toto's operating profit. This success has prompted Toto to invest heavily in capacity expansion and R&D for semiconductor ceramics, projecting continued growth fueled by the demand for AI infrastructure components. AI

IMPACT Toto's investment in semiconductor ceramics capacity signals a growing demand for specialized components essential for AI infrastructure.

RANK_REASON Company investment in AI infrastructure components and expansion of semiconductor-related business. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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Toto expands AI chip component production amid record earnings

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Catherina Gioino ·

    Not the Allbirds effect: Japan’s top bidet maker Toto has been quietly making chip supplies for decades, and the stock market finally noticed

    Toto didn't just flush its old business to make chips: it's been making the same components to power the world's AI infrastructure for years.

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