Why Taiwan Has a Lock on the World’s Chip Market
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The Uniqueness of TSMC's Processes
There's nothing unique in terms of the tools or software that TSMC has access to. But its intellectual property is not something that can be patented very easily because it's in the minds of the several thousand production engineers who run TSMC's processes. For a cutting edge semiconductor, there are over 1,000 different process steps and each one involves manipulating materials at almost the atomic level.
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