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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where TSMC comes up
Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 1:12:23 Gavin Baker And if you have a TSM allocation, you're going to be sold out.
The New Rule for Picking AI Winners | The a16z Show
- ▶ 25:12 David George Um, part of that is, you know, TSMC showing restraint.
The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
- ▶ 0:27 Matt Bornstein NVIDIA, TSMC, Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:10 Matt Bornstein Put unconventional in the context of the broader industry for me, like Nvidia, TSMC, Google, are, are these, um, you know, potential allies for unconventional? 3 times in the scene
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 6:48 Dylan Patel This was when they just passed Apple to be TSMC's largest customer. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:01 Dylan Patel Intel and Samsung are really good, and TSMC is just amazing.
- ▶ 19:28 Dylan Patel They, they passed Apple up in TSMC orders, they passed Apple up in phone market share, um, not in the US, but, like, in many parts of the world.
Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 0:06 Dylan Patel They're gonna have better negotiations with whether it's TSMC or SK Hynix and the memory and silicon side or all the rack people or, like, copper cables, everything.
- ▶ 33:44 Dylan Patel They're gonna have better negotiations with whether it's TSMC or SK Hynix and the memory and silicon side or all the rack people or like copper cables, everything.
- ▶ 49:05 Dylan Patel They think, I think industry generally agrees that Intel is further along, uh, you know, the sort of the two nanometer class process technology than Samsung is, uh, but both are way behind TSMC. 7 times in the scene
Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
- ▶ 51:50 Dwarkesh Patel Um, for maybe five more years, you could have, you could keep increasing the share of energy that we're spending on, uh, uh, training data centers or the fraction of TSMC's leading edge nodes.
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 22:38 Matt Bornstein Ok, like NVIDIA has sort of a moat because chip designs are hard to copy, but if you go sort of up or down, they're all sort of manufactured at the same place, right, at TSMC.
Jobs of the Future: Where Hardware Meets Software
- ▶ 5:04 Erin Price-Wright I mean, I think that, that when you look at, for example, the recent results that came out about the TSMC factory in Arizona, there's a whole class. 2 times in the scene
How to Build a Thriving AI Ecosystem with Lisa Su, CEO of AMD
Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs
- ▶ 4:09 Guido Appenzeller Intel will, uh, make strips on their own foundries, but, but most companies manufacture with Taiwan Semiconductor TSMC, right? 3 times in the scene
Autonomy & Defense Policy in the 21st Century
- ▶ 14:43 Jacob Helberg You talked recently about TSMC and the threat of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. 2 times in the scene