Lam Research: weekly token usage up ~250x in 18 months
Beth_Kindig · x · 2026-10-27
Lam Research, discussing AI demand, cited a report that average weekly token usage has grown roughly 250-fold over the past 18 months — a supply-chain-side quantification of the inference demand explosion, relevant to LRCX, NVDA and AMD.
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