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The 74% figure covers wafer revenue from 7nm and more advanced technologies. It does not describe the company’s entire business or imply all advanced chips come from Taiwan.
Adults who replay the same winter films every year aren't avoiding new stories — they're using a quiet psychological tool to revisit a version of themselves, and a room, that the rest of the year can't reach.
The hyperscalers are quietly dismantling the architecture of their own dependency.
Job interviews are supposed to measure competence.
People who find talk therapy genuinely useful are having a real experience.
There is a familiar workplace story that runs quietly underneath a lot of ambition: first you succeed, then you get to be happy.
TSMC manufactures an estimated 90%-plus of the world's most advanced chips on a single island 130 kilometres from China. There is no second source for the silicon powering the AI age.
Sperm whales rest in vertical clusters near the ocean surface, silent and motionless for roughly fifteen minutes at a time — the shortest sleep cycle of any mammal yet measured, and a posture marine biologists only confirmed in 2008.
A single oil palm tree yields up to ten times more oil per hectare than soy or sunflower, which is why palm supplies over a third of global vegetable oil on less than a tenth of oil-crop land — and why its expansion into Sumatra and Borneo has become one of the hardest environmental tradeoffs on Earth.
TSMC serves many chip markets, but it does not manufacture every chip in phones, cars or banking systems, and its factories extend beyond Taiwan.
Palm oil sits in roughly half of all packaged supermarket products, but it almost never appears on the label as "palm". The WWF lists more than 200 derivative names — from sodium lauryl sulfate to glycerol stearate — that disguise where the molecule came from, leaving shoppers with an impossible cross-referencing task at the shelf.
For 33 years, Abdul Taib Mahmud held the Sarawak chief ministership, the finance portfolio and the resource planning ministry at the same time — one office issuing timber concessions across one of the oldest rainforests on Earth.
