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every year 2025 anyone Jason Calacanis 16David Sacks 14Chamath Palihapitiya 12Howard Lutnick 9David Friedberg 5Rene Haas 4Antonio Gracias 4Thomas Laffont 3Gavin Baker 3Pat Gelsinger 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where TSMC comes up
Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
- ▶ 1:14:27 David Sacks TSMC has already opened a big fab in Arizona, and they're planning on increasing the size of that, and that's really important.
NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
- ▶ 51:42 Chamath Palihapitiya We're going to focus TSMC and Samsung on AI five.
Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI: Nvidia Lessons, Intel’s Decline and the US-China Chip War
- ▶ 10:25 Rene Haas To some extent, although we don't build anything, right, our business model is we do the design, someone else has the chip built, mostly at TSMC, some at Samsung, even Intel. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:37 David Friedberg Just talking about the fabs, TSMC's built this facility in Arizona. 3 times in the scene
Oval Office Tour with President Trump
- ▶ 15:05 David Sacks You got TSMC to invest hundreds of billions in the US.
Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- ▶ 37:06 Jason Calacanis Most of the chips in the world are made in Taiwan, obviously by TSMC.
Winning the AI Race Part 4: Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, Chris Wright, and Doug Burgum
- ▶ 16:25 Scott Bessent I, I, I'm sure Doug, Doug and Chris will talk about it, but this, this idea, TSMC wants to build a gigantic fab system in Arizona, and I, I think it might be able to,
Winning the AI Race Part 3: Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, James Litinsky, Chase Lochmiller
- ▶ 13:43 David Sacks In April, it was announced that you achieved your first silicon output at the TSMC facility in Arizona on that two nanometer line. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:34 David Sacks But the reports out were that TSMC couldn't get good, qualified, trained employees. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:30 David Sacks We, um, you know, we've seen stories of TSMC in Arizona.
Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior | All-In DC
- ▶ 25:58 Doug Burgum You know, in Arizona, you've got the, you know, the TSMC plant coming there.
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
- ▶ 38:15 Aaron Levie We're doing TSMC.
Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
- ▶ 18:49 David Sacks There was a case where TSMC was discovered to have produced something like three million chips that went into the Huawei Ascend nine, 10 C chips.
Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
- ▶ 1:05:39 Howard Lutnick TMC saying I'll build, uh, you know, semiconductor wafers.
- ▶ 1:06:13 Chamath Palihapitiya So TSMC can make chips.
Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- ▶ 5:31 Jason Calacanis Then at 2:38 PM, Trump announces a hundred billion dollar investment from TSMC in American fabs.
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 55:51 Antonio Gracias So what do they do?
DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
- ▶ 16:45 Jason Calacanis TSMC was down.
2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- ▶ 1:14:23 Gavin Baker High bandwidth memory is a bigger part of Nvidia's cogs on GPUs than Taiwan Semi is.