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The idea of LLM Wiki applied to a year of the Economist. Have an LLM keep a wiki up-to-date about companies, people & countries while reading through all articles of the economist from Q2 2025 until Q2 2026.
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Tokyo Electron

Tokyo Electron is a Japanese manufacturer of sophisticated equipment used to fabricate semiconductors. It is one of the major beneficiaries of the AI chip boom, alongside Advantest. In the 1980s Japan accounted for more than half of global chip production, with six of the world's ten biggest chipmakers; Japanese firms still dominate several niches in the supply chain, particularly for materials and tools.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy