This Japanese toilet maker seeking ‘the perfect flush’ is moonlighting as a hot AI play


Toto is “aiming to achieve a toilet that never needs cleaning.” It’s also supplying electrostatic chucks — a semiconductor-manufacturing component critical to the memory-chip boom.

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