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TSM directional thesis

A small slice of TSMC's spend turns into NVIDIA's hundred-sixty-billion-a-year of earnings, and the foundry could still break out and charge a lot more.

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“TSMC is not raising prices, but memory vendors are... until TSMC or ASML like break out and they're like, no, actually we're going to charge a lot more.”
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