TSMC, every mention
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every year 2026 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
Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
- ▶ 1:10:13 David Sacks That's why NVIDIA is able to pay TSMC and Micron and SK Hynix and all the way down.
Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
- ▶ 3:03 Jason Calacanis That's people like NVIDIA, TSMC, AMD, Micron, you know, all those big names.
- ▶ 22:08 Jason Calacanis ASML, which makes those machines, which TSMC uses, those are very sophisticated machines.
Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- ▶ 0:07 Jason Calacanis Probably one of the greatest American companies, uh, ever, and then absolutely went off the rails and got absolutely demolished by NVIDIA, TSMC, uh, and I guess Apple to a certain extent.
- ▶ 11:21 Jason Calacanis And maybe you talk a little bit about TSMC and their surging, and we can even get into a little bit of the, the politics of it now, and then we'll get into some of these AI chips and venture investing. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:39 Pat Gelsinger Uh, and TSMC's factories are up and operating at scale. 2 times in the scene
Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
- ▶ 1:33:30 Gavin Baker We immediately ordered more wafers from Taiwan Semi. 2 times in the scene
World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
- ▶ 15:52 Jason Calacanis And now, SpaceX is sitting at seventh largest company right behind TSMC. 2 times in the scene
Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It
- ▶ 26:53 Thomas Laffont They said, well, if I want to design a chip like OpenAI, I can go to TSMC. 3 times in the scene
Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- ▶ 21:22 David Friedberg So as we build out our own manufacturing capacity here in the US, and I know we've struggled and there are fits and starts and issues with it and whatnot, but the TSMC facility in Arizona is running. 2 times in the scene
“This is Bibi’s War” - Harvard’s Graham Allison on the Influences and Endgame of the Iran War
- ▶ 30:24 Graham Allison So TSMC, as you all have discussed before, produces the advanced semiconductors for essentially everybody, of whom we're the principal consumer.
Binance CEO: 4 Months in Prison, $4 Billion Fine, and What Comes Next
- ▶ 27:04 Changpeng Zhao (CZ) They used to, they, they worked for TSMC back then. 2 times in the scene
Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
- ▶ 1:10:04 Howard Lutnick I had, I went out to Arizona to the TSMC plant, and I met the, ah, these guys were pipe fitters. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:47 Howard Lutnick So TSMC, when I, when I walked in, there was this CHIPS Act, ok? 6 times in the scene