The Pickaxe and Shovel Brigade
Let's be blunt. The most obvious place to look is the semiconductor industry. You can’t run powerful AI without some serious computational muscle, and that has created a modern-day gold rush for specialised chips. NVIDIA, of course, is the poster child here, designing the graphics processors that have become the industry standard. Their chips are the digital equivalent of a V12 engine in a world that just discovered motorways.
But thinking it's a one-horse race would be a mistake. You have contenders like AMD snapping at their heels, and the quiet titan, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which actually builds the cutting edge chips for both Apple and NVIDIA. It’s the classic gold rush scenario. Whilst everyone is digging for gold, the smart money is often on the people selling the pickaxes and shovels. And in the AI gold rush, TSMC owns the best shovel factory on the planet.