Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation ($TSM, $113.66): Conducting Moore’s Orchestra

Key Takeaways

  • Taiwan Semiconductor Corporation ($TSM) is one of the most important and also competitively dominant companies on Earth. It’s competitive advantage has likely only just begun.
  • We see the primary risk of a military conflict over Taiwan as diminishing as the United States coalesces around Chinese containment. Furthermore, China’s military still seems years away from being able to succesfully and confidently conduct such an operation.
  • The domestic pressures building in China are likely to be the immediate concern of the ultra-paranoid and power conscious CCP. Chinese real estate market woes and demographic headwinds make what would be a wreckless gamble seem unlikely.
  • TSM is currently slated to dominate the end of the silicon age with one of our previous semi-favorites, ASML. If ASML was the Jewel of The Empire, TSM is an empire in its own right.
  • The company’s prodigious status and centrality to the progress of human civilization masks a Spartan corporate culture that enables them to effectively advance innovation better than peers. Moore’s Law has never been assured, but rests on collective success and cooperation of hundreds of crack engineers and thousands of support staff.

Moore’s Law is probably one of the most over-cited and over-used the...

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