On February 1, 1987, he organized the TSMC, a joint venture between Philips of the Netherlands and ITRI, and served as Chairman and President (CEO). According to Morris Chang, when he was developing the foundry model, he invited Intel to become a shareholder, but Intel always insisted on IDM and was not taken seriously.
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a16z, Silicon Valley’s most aggresive venture capital firm
Compay profile Introduction to a16z Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is a well-known venture capital company in Silicon Valley founded by the two famous entrepreneurs Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Founders For Mark Anderson, you can see the introduction to my previous post of Two famous essays by Marc Anderson on software and artificial intelligence And … Continue reading “a16z, Silicon Valley’s most aggresive venture capital firm”
Amazon insider activity contributes 2025 stock price weakness
Amazon’s three main business segments weren’t performing so poorly that investors had to punish its stock price. That’s why the stock price was so depressed. Later, I found the only reason that convinced me: Amazon insider activity.
A must-read for Nvidia investors＂The Thinking Machine＂
＂The Thinking Machine＂ is about the founding history of Nvidia, Jensen Huang personal biography, and how Nvidia evolved and grew into the world’s most important chip manufacturer. The author actually interviewed hundreds of people who were directly related to the founding of Nvidia or Huang Renxun at the time, and all of them are first-hand interview records. If you are an investor in Nvidia stocks, it is recommended that you take the time to read this book.
a16z’s “Secrets of sand hill road” to investors and entrepreneurs
“Secrets of sand hill road” is a practical book written by key members of the management team of Andreessen Horowitz, one of the top, mainstream, and still very active Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
Why Meta share outperform peers in recent years?
In the storm of DeepSeek that hit American listed artificial intelligence companies hard, Meta was at the center of the storm. Among the major listed artificial intelligence companies, Meta was one of the very few stocks whose stock price not only did not plummet but also hit a new high.
The famous Chinese founder and CEO of semiconductor companies
A large proportion of Chinese descent in world top chip companies, But you may have discovered the proportion of leaders of global semiconductor companies from mainland China is very low. Why?
“Blitzscaling” expansion speed decide if startup success eventually
“Zero to One” focuses on the “strategies” for new companies to succeed, that is, the idea of disrupting industries; but “Blitzscaling” emphasizes how new companies should do it , can ensure successful “tactics”.
A series of Intel decisions led to where it is today
In Intel’s sixty years, the company has only had eight CEOs. But there are only two kinds of these eight: extremely good and terrible. The performance of these two types of Intel CEOs can be said to be very different: Intel decisions during their respective tenures resulted in the current miserable state of Intel we see.
2024 Nobel Chemistry Prize awarded to 3 AI experts, accurately predict the 3D structure of proteins
the 2024 Nobel Chemistry Prize was awarded to 3 AI experts used artificial intelligence to accurately predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins.