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27 Jan 2025 Acquired TSMC Founder Morris Chang

“I knew that one of these days we will probably need top-level investment bank advice.”

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27 Jan 2025
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…But it’s still the question of are you willing to go do this huge distraction and spend on the order of $10 billion over the next few years doing 20-nanometer for Apple when you weren’t planning on doing 20-nanometer at all? That’s right. That is where our connection with Goldman Sachs came in. Remember, I planted a lot of seeds when I ran TSMC. I knew that one of these days we will probably need top-level investment bank advice. So we established a good relationship with Goldman Sachs very early in our existence. I was in fact a board director of Goldman Sachs. Did you know that? Yes, I did.…

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