U.S. news outlet CNN was recently welcomed into TSMC, after trying to get access for two years. Reporter Will Ripley got up close with the company’s high-end technology, and took a stroll through the newcomer training center. During an interview, a top executive shared the company’s “secret weapon” for success.

Voice of Will Ripley
CNN Taiwan correspondent
Nearly all the world’s most advanced chips are made in one place, the small island-democracy of Taiwan.

U.S. news outlet CNN visited a TSMC facility in Taichung. With a market cap of US$671 billion, TSMC has been named one of the most important companies in the world, the reporter said. During an interview, TSMC Chair Mark Liu said the company’s “secret weapon” was Taiwan’s talent.

Mark Liu
TSMC chair
With a lot of people invest a lot of time in their education. Looking from outside it appears to be a miracle. Every place have to take advantage of their strengths. Not to just copy other people’s strengths when it was your weakness.

Will Ripley
CNN Taiwan correspondent
So you believe that it will strengthen TSMC and Taiwan to build these fabs.

Lora Ho
TSMC senior vice president
We can prove to the world we can run this highly sophisticated manufacturing everywhere.

CNN also covered TSMC’s global expansion. It noted the company’s labor challenges in the U.S. and Germany, and said that TSMC had just opened a plant in Kumamoto, Japan. It said TSMC was on the verge of producing a 1.4 nanometer chip.

Voice of Fareed Zakaria
CNN news anchor
Microchips are the oil of the 21st century. And if Taiwan is attacked, the whole world could grind to a halt, plunging in to a global great depression.

Another report focused on TSMC founder Morris Chang, saying he transformed Taiwan’s history. The report described TSMC as a “silicon shield” for Taiwan, pointing out that 90% of the world’s advanced chips are made on the island.

Joseph Wu
Foreign minister
TSMC is going to be a deterrence against the idea of aggression against Taiwan.

TSMC has garnered attention around the world, highlighting the key position of Taiwan’s semiconductors in global geopolitics.

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