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CHIPS History and Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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The Disadvantages of Intel's Recent History

The way TSMC pulls this off is they are completely centralized in Taiwan. All of these people that know how to do this stuff are here. And so when they build a new chip, they're all around. They can figure out how to get it to work. But one thing that's interesting is it made Intel pretty rigid because they, that's how their sort of model worked. Whereas the TSMC model was a little bit more flexible and rigidity was that it had to all be in Taiwan.

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