On his eighth appearance on the podcast, MBI (🇧🇩🇺🇸) joins me to discuss one of humanity’s most impressive achievements: The semiconductor industry.

Of course, we can’t talk about everything, and this isn’t meant to be a structured primer (for that, see below). It’s just a mostly unstructured conversation among friends, discussing whatever we find interesting in the space.

We focus mostly on TSMC and Texas Instruments because that’s the two companies that MBI has researched more deeply, but we touch on ideas and concepts that apply more broadly.

The goal is mostly to make you curious about this magic sand and encourage you to go down that rabbit hole too (we have book recommendations at the end if you don’t know where to start).

We also brainstormed an interesting proposal to create a US alternative to TSMC (USSMC?).

📄🕵️‍♂️ MBI’s Semiconductor Deep Dives 🩻🔍

* Semiconductors: "To see a World in a Grain of Sand" (sub required 🔐)

* Texas Instruments: Leading the Analog Chips Industry (sub required 🔐)

* TSMC: The Most Mission-Critical Company on Earth (sub required 🔐)