Lens Technology is the world’s largest processor of glass for consumer electronics. Based in Changsha, China, the company employs 145,000 people and has factories across multiple Chinese provinces.1 Lens is one of two key suppliers of touchscreens to Apple, alongside long-standing Chinese rival Biel Crystal. It is also a key supplier to Samsung and a particularly important supplier to Xiaomi, for whom Lens also does whole-device assembly of the latter’s premium smartphones. Glass is not just key for smartphones and other touchscreen devices: its unique physical, optical, and thermal properties make it a crucial engineering material in future plans for robotics, augmented reality devices, and advanced semiconductors for artificial intelligence. Lens is currently expanding out of touchscreens into these and other areas, already manufacturing entire humanoid robots for Chinese companies and likely parts for Tesla’s robots too, and working with Intel and Samsung on advanced glass substrates and “through glass vias” (TGVs) to further increase the performance of cutting-edge AI chips. With a net worth of around $17 billion, Lens’ founder and CEO Zhou Qunfei is the world’s wealthiest self-made female entrepreneur due to her majority ownership of Lens, which is publicly traded with a market capitalization of around $25 billion (300433.SZ) as of October 2026.2