Silicon's Fragile Spine: How the Earthquake, the Bottleneck, and the AI Arms Race Just Created the Best Entry in Semiconductor Equipment in 18 Months

At 11:31 PM on July 28, 2026, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Kumamoto, Japan—and the semiconductor supply chain held its breath. It was right to notice, and catastrophically wrong about what to do.

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