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▶ 0:35 · $ASML · Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI Just Announced Something Impossible
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Limitless Podcast

Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI Just Announced Something Impossible

2026-03-23 · 5 company · 3 thematic
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josh kale

Co-host of Limitless Podcast (episode 210), a 4x/week show covering the frontier of AI and technology with a newsletter reaching hundreds of thousands. The podcast recently spun out as an independent entity.

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“There's one company that makes all of them. All of the technology, all of the devices that exist in the world today come from a single company that does this thing called lithography. And that company is called ASML. They cost $400 million…”
—josh kale
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TSMC, Samsung, Intel collectively supply only 2% of Tesla's future AI chip demand
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Tesla must vertically integrate chip manufacturing to support 100M Optimus robots and 50M cybercabs
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$SPCX···bullish· mediumjosh kale
xAI merged with X, Tesla invested $2B, Grok to be trained on orbital Dojo 3 chips
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