TSMC
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WHAT IT DOES
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company builds chips designed by others — NVIDIA, Apple, AMD, Broadcom — in the world's most advanced factories. It invented this 'foundry' model and now dominates it.
HOW IT MAKES MONEY
Customers pay per wafer, and the most advanced wafers command premium prices only TSMC can charge, because nobody else can manufacture at the leading edge in volume.
WHY WE TRACK IT
It is the physical chokepoint of the AI thesis: NVIDIA's designs are worthless without TSMC's fabs and advanced packaging. Its capex plans and utilization are the supply-side truth of the whole cycle.
THE SIMPLE THESIS
A quasi-monopoly on making the most important objects in the modern economy, priced with a permanent discount for sitting a hundred miles from China. The thesis is that the moat compounds faster than the geopolitics deteriorates.
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