= TSMC
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One of the companies that has fabs, which buys machines from companies such as ASML and puts them together in so called "silicon fabs" to make the chips
As the quintessential <fabless> <fab>, there is on thing TSMC can never ever do: sell their own design! It must forever remain a <fab>-only company, that will never compete with its customers. This is highlighted e.g. at https://youtu.be/TRZqE6H-dww?t=936 from <video How Nvidia Won Graphics Cards by Asianometry (2021)>.
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fVrWDdll0g]
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Some points:
* UCM failed because it focused too much on the internal market, and was shielded from external competition, so it didn't become world leading
* one of TSMC's great advances was the <fabless> business model approach.
* they managed to do large technology transfers from the West to kickstart things off
* one of their main victories was investing early in <CMOS>, before it became huge, and winning that market
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