TSMC founder Morris Chang
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You said technology. Now we definitely have a cold opening.
Alright. I guess, I really want us to be about technology companies again. Well,
this is a technology company. It's a sign. Alright.
Here we go. Who got the truth? Is it you? Is it you? Is it you? Who got the truth now? Is it you? Is it you? Is it you? Sitting down, Welcome to the spring 2025 season of Acquired, the podcast about great companies and the stories and playbooks behind them. I'm Ben Gilbert.
I'm David Rosenthal.
And we are your hosts. Today, we have something very special to share with you. After becoming obsessed with semiconductors from our TSMC episode 4 years ago, David and I wound our way through the rest of the industry, studying fabulous companies like NVIDIA and Qualcomm, architecture companies like ARM, and chip design software companies like Synopsys. And as we were thinking, what's next in the world of chips on acquired? We threw the Hail Mary. We asked friend of the show, Jensen Huang, if he would ask doctor Morris Chang, the 93 year old founder of TSMC, if he would be open to an interview
is, kind of insane and super cool that Jensen made time to help us with this. It's, it's not like he doesn't have a lot of other things going on.
Yes. Well, listeners, it happened. So today's episode is a conversation that we recorded in Taipei last week at doctor Chang's office. We flew to Taiwan for a 48 hour whirlwind where we spent some time at TSMC's headquarters in Hinchew Science Park, where many of TSMC's fabs are located. Super
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