TSMC (Remastered)

We dive into the unbelievable and unlikely history behind the quietest technology giant of them all: the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Founded in 1987 by the then-56 year old Morris Chang, already a legend in the semiconductor industry by virtue of his meteoric rise and fall at Texas Instruments, TSMC today manufactures nearly all the leading-edge chips for Nvidia, Apple, Broadcom, Qualcomm, AMD, and yes — even Intel. Tune in for an incredible story of innovation, perseverance and lasers. Lots and lots of lasers! Note: this is a remastered version of our original 2021 episode. We don’t often re-release old episodes, but in this case we have a very timely reason for doing so. Stay tuned! :) Sponsors: Sentry: WorkOS: Anthropic: Statsig: Links: Episode Sources Carve Outs: Ted Lasso (Season 1) Greek Who is Michael Ovitz? More Acquired! Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodes Join the Slack

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TSMC (Remastered) is an episode from Acquired by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal.

This episode is 149:41 long.

This episode was published on Jan 21, 2025.

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