Dependencies

Robotics

Not a map of places. Each column is one technology, and vertical position is depth in that technology’s own stack — the top is what people use, the bottom is what it is made of. A company sits in the drawing once for every technology it is placed in, so the dashed threads are the same company, seen again somewhere else.

21 of 135 mapped companies are placed in more than one technology ·30 threads ·165 placements drawn

Scroll the drawing sideways to see all 6 technologies.

25 of 135 companies are named in the drawing. The rest are drawn but have no room for a name where they sit — they are not missing, and they are all reachable fromStack & Company. Provisional data, generated from the same company files as the rest of the site.

The companies that hold more than one technology

This is the list the drawing is making a picture of. A ring on a node means the company appears again in another column; the names below say where.

TSMCRobotics Quantum Computing Artificial Intelligence Brain-Computer Interface35 downstream
Amazon Web ServicesQuantum Computing Artificial Intelligence Space Technology Biotechnology8 downstream
Air LiquideQuantum Computing Artificial Intelligence Space Technology46 downstream
NvidiaRobotics Artificial Intelligence Biotechnology20 downstream
LindeQuantum Computing Artificial Intelligence Space Technology10 downstream
Texas InstrumentsRobotics Brain-Computer Interface Space Technology10 downstream
Microsoft AzureQuantum Computing Artificial Intelligence Biotechnology5 downstream
Applied MaterialsQuantum Computing Artificial Intelligence54 downstream
Lynas Rare EarthsRobotics Artificial Intelligence46 downstream
ASMLQuantum Computing Artificial Intelligence44 downstream
Shin-Etsu ChemicalRobotics Artificial Intelligence44 downstream
AMDRobotics Artificial Intelligence7 downstream
GlobalFoundriesQuantum Computing Space Technology3 downstream
GoogleQuantum Computing Artificial Intelligence1 downstream
maxonRobotics Space Technology1 downstream
MP MaterialsRobotics Artificial Intelligence1 downstream
AlbemarleRobotics Artificial Intelligence0 downstream
Analog DevicesRobotics Brain-Computer Interface0 downstream
ArmRobotics Artificial Intelligence0 downstream
FoxconnRobotics Artificial Intelligence0 downstream
Keysight TechnologiesQuantum Computing Space Technology0 downstream

How to read it

Vertical position: Normalised depth: 0 at the top of a stack, 1 at the raw material. Stacks have different lengths — nine layers in space technology, four in biotechnology — so raw counts cannot be compared. The fraction can. The scale is not linear: the lower third is given more height than the upper, because that is where the chains run together and where the findings are.
Size: How many companies rest on it, counted through the whole chain and not just the next step.
Grey ring: Someone’s only mapped source. A thin place, as far as the mapping goes.
Amber ring and dashed thread: The same company, placed in more than one technology. A thicker ring means three or more.
What it does not say: Nothing about price, and nothing about likelihood. A dependency map says where a chain is thin. Coverage is partial and the data is provisional, so an absence here is an absence in the mapping, not in the world.