TSMC: The Tiny Island Stock That Holds the World’s Tech, Trade, and Tensions Hostage
TSMC: The Tiny Island That Holds the World Hostage By the time you finish reading this sentence, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM) will have printed another 300 smartphone processors—each one capable of running TikTok, Instagram, or the nuclear launch codes of any moderately funded superpower. Investors politely call TSM a “bellwether”; the rest of us…