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Ben Gilbert: evaluation

27 Jan 2025 Acquired TSMC Founder Morris Chang

“This is why you started TSMC as a pure play foundry business because you didn’t want to compete head-to-head.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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evaluation
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27 Jan 2025
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Acquired

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…Yeah. If we hear the name, if you hear that they’re in competition with you, my goodness, you’ll be trembling with fear. This is why you started TSMC as a pure play foundry business because you didn’t want to compete head-to-head. You said, we should not be an integrated design manufacturer of the design of the chips and the manufacturing. We have to compete on a different vector because we’ll never catch Intel. I didn’t say that we’ll never catch Intel.…

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