TMSC makes all the Nvidia AI chips right?
Also this made my jaw drop: It's responsible for 5 per cent of Taiwan's GDP, and 7 per cent of its electricity consumption.
Also this made my jaw drop: It's responsible for 5 per cent of Taiwan's GDP, and 7 per cent of its electricity consumption.
And Samsung? From Statista:
> In 2022, ... TSMC consumed almost 22 thousand gigawatt-hours of energy
> In 2022, Samsung Electronics reported ... consumed approximately [77 thousand gigawatt-hours, i.e.] 277 thousand terajoules of energy
Samsung (to that data) seems to consume over three times as much as TSMC.
Ignoring all political difficulties that Taiwan might have doing that, they have a huge population on a tiny island 100 miles from anything else.