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Turns out the tightest bottleneck in the AI trade are the crystals used to make optical lasers. AXTI is the leading maker of those crystals.

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Aug 7, 2026 · 12:56

Lumentum Holdings recently agreed to pay ATX $87 million in deposits to reserve six years of indium-phosphide wafer supply.

Oh yeah, and China controls that supply through permits to ship the crystals made in 3 plants in China.