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TSMC and semiconductor manufacturing

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  1. 0:00Every Nvidia chip and every iPhone is
  2. 0:02built by one company. Even Nvidia's
  3. 0:04Jensen Huang depends on it. It makes 90%
  4. 0:06of the world's most advanced chips. This
  5. 0:08is TSMC and the man who built it, Morris
  6. 0:11Chang. He didn't start it until he was
  7. 0:1355. Born in China, he fled war, then
  8. 0:16spent 25 years at Texas Instruments.
  9. 0:18Passed over for the top job, he flew to
  10. 0:20Taiwan and started over. His idea, build
  11. 0:23chips for everyone, compete with no one.
  12. 0:25Nvidia, Apple, AMD, Qualcomm, all of
  13. 0:28them depend on it. [music] It's biggest
  14. 0:30customer, Nvidia's Jensen Huang. TSMC is
  15. 0:32worth over a trillion dollars [music]
  16. 0:34and it sits on one island the world is
  17. 0:36fighting over, Taiwan. The most
  18. 0:38important company on Earth, a name
  19. 0:40almost nobody knows. Follow for the
  20. 0:42Builder Economy.
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