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TSM directional thesis

The company that fabs and packages every AI accelerator keeps pricing power even as GPU makers fight a commoditizing car-market price war, because all that volume still funnels through one CoWoS chokepoint.

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“Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Um, yeah, the incentives flip when you get to this scale, or, or the incentives just get so big you can build a whole team for a specific thing, solve any problem. Uh, and so For the past few years, NVIDIA has sort of looked like SpaceX's launch program. It's incredible technology with very few viable alternatives. And so that creates great margins, as we've seen with SpaceX's launch capacity. And they control something like 90% of the launch market while the products have not degraded.”
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