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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Portfolio of Nvidia investment empire
Nvidia investment empire, in Nvidia’s August 2025 financial report showed it currently holds $4.33 billion in publicly traded stocks
Companies US has stake, and their stock performance
The following table lists companies Companies US has stake, and their stock performance
AI inference chips vs. training chips
AI inference involves unique algorithms designed by each manufacturer, it must be customized. Customized chips are essentially ASICs, so AI inference chips are primarily ASICs.
How Astera Labs, AI high-speed transmission expert, make money?
Astera Labs specializes in connectivity solutions for data center-centric systems, including cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Its products optimize data flow and performance in servers, GPUs and AI accelerators, addressing bottlenecks in high-performance computing environments.
Quantum computing update, the performance of related stocks
Quantum computing is suitable for solving ‘small data, big calculation’ problems, but they are not good at dealing with problems that require large amounts of data
TSMC is becoming the lord of semiconductor packaging, in addition to foundry
TSMC’s semiconductor packaging-related financial revenue indicators at the third quarter of 2024 are as follows: In the second quarter of 2024, packaging business-related revenue reached US$2.4 billion. In the third quarter of 2024, revenue related to the packaging business reached US$3.2 billion, a quarterly increase of 36%. CoWoS packaging production capacity will double in 2024.
Google’s Willow chip rally related quantum computing stocks. Is it justified?
Google says Willow can “exponentially” reduce errors as the number of quantum bits increases, which “addresses a key challenge in quantum error correction that has been pursued in the field for nearly 30 years.”
Semiconductor packaging market is undergoing fundamental changes
The more they enter the high-end process, these traditional global semiconductor packaging and testing plants (OSAT) gradually show their weaknesses – they are no longer able to enjoy the previous advantages in the field of high-end semiconductor process.
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.