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CHIPS History and Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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The Geopolitical Challenges of TSMC

TSMC is just basically dominant as far as advanced shipping goes, because you have all these feedback loops that are making them not just better today, but much better place. It just so happens that they're situated like, I don't know, 100 miles from an international superpower that's been fairly hostile recently. And at the same time, TSMC is arguably the single biggest reason why there will not be a war, because the entire world is just too dependent on this one company that no one could afford it.

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