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Marc Bolitho Bet the Company on the Expensive Part of AI
After 28 years in automotive electronics, Marc Bolitho left the predictable road for a semiconductor startup - then redirected that startup when ChatGPT changed the map. His operating idea is simple enough to remember: stay level, work as one team, and follow the economics all the way down to the math.
The Company That Builds Your Laptop and Never Puts Its Name On It
It is the world's #2 notebook maker, ships Apple Watches when demand spikes, and quietly assembles the laptop on your desk. Now Compal wants 40% of its revenue to come from AI servers - and its name still won't be on the box.
The $1.5 Billion Chip Company Hiding in Your Car, Charger and Cloud
Diodes Incorporated built a sprawling semiconductor business by collecting the tiny parts engineers cannot afford to get wrong. Its hybrid factory model creates leverage in a boom, pain in a slowdown - and a useful playbook for operators who know when breadth beats glamour.
The Repair Shop That Told Detroit: Don't Throw It Away, We'll Fix It
For nearly 80 years, a family-run shop outside Los Angeles has made its money on a stubborn idea: most broken electronics do not need to be replaced. They need to be repaired.
The 98-year-old company that keeps your electronics from catching fire
Founded in 1927 to keep radios from frying, Littelfuse now makes the fuses, semiconductors and sensors that quietly protect everything from EV chargers to data centers - a $2.4 billion business built on parts most people never see.
The Company Keeping Water Out of 15 Million Cars
It started in a Malden kitchen and now guards the circuit boards inside 15 million cars. actnano bet that a gel could do what a hard shell couldn't - and that dropping the fluorine would become the whole point.