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TMSC makes all the Nvidia AI chips right? Also this made my jaw drop: It's responsible for 5 per cent of Taiwan's GDP, and 7 per cent of its electricity consum
by quickthrower2 3y ago
TMSC makes all the Nvidia AI chips right?
Also this made my jaw drop: It's responsible for 5 per cent of Taiwan's GDP, and 7 per cent of its electricity consumption.
- cyber_kinetist 3y agoIf you were surprised about that, note that Samsung is responsible for 20% of the South Korean GDP… (and Samsung Electronics taking up most of the revenue)
- strikelaserclaw 3y agoBut Samsung does so much more than TSMC i'm assuming. When i was in korea, i literally saw buildings with the samsung logo on them.
- futhey 3y agoIn Taiwan it's one of the controversial things that comes up every year when there are electricity shortages or water shortages; whether TSMC should get special treatment, or not.
- hollerith 3y agoTaiwan has electricity shortages? Huh.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoMost places have occasional electricity shortages when some power plant has some short term issue, but have a large connected grid that let's them get power from elsewhere. Ignoring all political difficulties that Taiwan might have doing that, they have a huge population on a tiny island 100 miles from anything else.
- eric-hu 3y agoThey have nuclear power plants but switched them off after Fukushima. Now they use coal and gas plants instead.
- mdp2021 3y ago> 7 per cent of its electricity consumption And Samsung? From Statista: > In 2022, ... TSMC consumed almost 22 thousand gigawatt-hours of energy > In 2022, Samsung Electronics reported ... consumed approximately [77 thousand gigawatt-hours, i.e.] 277 thousand terajoules of energy Samsung (to that data) seems to consume over three times as much as TSMC.