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And what is TSMC in this analogy?

• tccole 28d ago
  Idk… government bonds or something?
• creativeSlumber 28d ago
  do they lend money to their customers to buy their own chips?
  • deleted 28d ago
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• aeonik 28d ago
  The currency press operator and manufacturer.
• bigyikes 28d ago
  What’s upstream of the central bank? …Congress?
• itsalwaysgood 28d ago
  A platform: aka the foundation under the bank. The material cement that allows chips to exist above it. And the platform is made of time: ours.
  • overcast 28d ago
    ASML is the foundation. Without them, none of this would exist.
    • petcat 28d ago
      I think we can go even further and say that IBM, Zeiss, several Japanese companies, and even the US Department of Energy are the actual foundation since ASML is largely just an integrator of many different technologies they license from elsewhere.
      • MachineMan 27d ago
        “Our age of silicon is collapsing” - Christopher Nolan
      • overcast 27d ago
        We can go even further, all of the mining companies! Or even further, and the dead stars that exploded!
  • amelius 28d ago
    If TSMC is a platform, then why doesn't it have an App Store?
    • jubilanti 28d ago
      They do, you only get access to it if you're comissioning chips.
• JumpCrisscross 28d ago
  > And what is TSMC in this analogy? The mint?