TSMC or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is the real giant in the semiconductor chip industry. Semiconductor chips are critical electronic components, that are used in computing components and a variety of electronic devices. Due to TSMC's large share in the manufacture of semiconductors, I think we can tell that TSMC is one of the most important companies in the world. Today we'll try to find out how did it happen that modern technology depends so heavily on TSMC? And what is the world trying to do to change this situation?

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TSMC's factory photo: Briáxis F. Mendes - CC BY-SA 4.0
Xi Jinping photo: Palácio do Planalto - CC BY 2.0
Andy Grove, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore in 1978: Intel Free Press - CC BY-SA 2.0
Intel C4004: Thomas Nguyen - CC BY-SA 4.0
Morris Chang photo: 總統府 - CC BY 2.0
Morris Chang photo (with trophy): w:en:Presidential Office Building, Taiwan - CC BY 2.0
Steve Jobs photo: Matthew Yohe - CC BY-SA 3.0
Moore's Law Transistor Count: Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie - CC BY 4.0
Gordon Moore photo: Science History Institute - CC BY-SA 3.0
Zoom Into a Microchip video: National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE) - Creative commons attribution (reuse allowed)    • Zoom Into a Microchip  
TSMC, Fab 5 building, Hsinchu Science Park: Peellden - CC BY-SA 3.0
TSMC's factories in Taichung's Central Taiwan Science Park: Briáxis F. Mendes (孟必思) - CC BY-SA 4.0

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