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IL10: Chip War (FT's Best Business Book 2022) ft. Chris Miller

Top Traders Unplugged

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TSMC - What Is It All About?

Every new chip in an iPhone, every new chip in a PC data center chips are all now using this tool to carve ultra small shapes and pack more transistors. The precision patterning that you can do with light at 13.5 nanometers lets you carve very small shapes at high volume. So without these machines, there's no iPhones,. There's no presumably supercomputers that AI technologies relied on also use the ASML machines. TSMC was founded in 1987 by a gentleman named Morris Chang, who I think is the most underrated and underappreciated businessman of the last century.

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