Taiwan's chip show will go on — with or without Jensen Huang
THE SO WHAT
The takeaway for operators isn’t Nvidia’s drama—it’s that TSMC’s position in AI compute demand looks durable regardless of any single customer’s leadership issues. If your roadmap depends on advanced nodes, assume Taiwan and TSMC remain central capacity and geopolitical choke points for the foreseeable future.
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