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Company
TSMC
The indispensable factory: nearly every leading AI chip is made here.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company fabricates the advanced logic for NVIDIA, AMD, Apple, Google, Amazon, Broadcom-built ASICs and most of the rest of the leading edge, and its CoWoS advanced-packaging capacity has repeatedly been the single binding constraint on world GPU supply. It is spending tens of billions a year on new fabs in Taiwan, Arizona…
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Person
Morris Chang
Founder of TSMC: inventor of the foundry model itself.
Chang founded TSMC in 1987 at age 55 on a then-heretical idea: a chip company that only manufactures, for everyone. The pure-play foundry model he invented made fabless designers like NVIDIA possible and concentrated the world's advanced manufacturing in Taiwan, the geography this entire database orbits. He retired in 2018; his memoirs became essential…
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