1 company most people never talk about powers the entire chip industry 😳
Carl Zeiss makes the extreme-precision mirrors and lenses inside ASML’s EUV machines.
Without them, the world’s most advanced chips simply cannot be manufactured.
▫️ 80 percent of all chips use Zeiss optics
▫️ 100 percent of the most powerful chips depend on Zeiss components
▫️ Nvidia, AMD, Apple, Intel… all rely on this single German firm
Zeiss is foundation-owned. It has been quietly perfecting optical engineering for more than a century. And today, the entire AI hardware stack sits on its ability to manufacture mirrors with atomic-level precision.
We talk a lot about ASML, TSMC, and Nvidia.
But maybe the most irreplaceable link in the chain is Zeiss.
How many people knew this?