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Bathgate: TSMC surpassed Intel because vertical integration forced impossible multi-front technological battles
“Intel has to fight TSMC on process technology, which, like, in itself is one of the hardest things, you know, any technology companies had to do over the last 20 years, and that's why Intel has been surpassed by TSMC, right?”
Bathgate: Cadence is taking digital EDA market share from Synopsys
“We do think they're taking market share, especially in digital markets, like where they would be selling to an Intel or an Apple or an Nvidia. We think they're the share gainer, but both companies, it's like an extremely high quality duopoly.”
Bathgate: Nvidia has one of the world's best business models
“NVIDIA has got close to 70% gross margins and like, you know, low forties operating margins. I did really with very little cyclicality because TSMC offloaded all that cyclicality. Right. So it is just like one of the best business models besides I would say en…”