Technology, AI, capital and institutions, examined through who builds systems, who controls them and who benefits.
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In 1816, a French physician at the Necker Hospital in Paris reached for a sheet of paper because he was too embarrassed to press his ear to a young woman's chest. The rolled cylinder he held against her ribs became the stethoscope — and the vocabulary of modern cardiology.
A 35-year-old founder with near-perfect biomarkers, four years of optimised bloodwork, and a Whoop band that tracked his sleep against an Oura ring discovered a tumour the size of a fist behind his sternum — not through any of his tracking, but by accident.
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.
The hyperscalers are quietly dismantling the architecture of their own dependency.
On June 3, 2026, the European Commission proposed a set of rules that would change how European governments buy cloud computing for their most sensitive data.
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.
ASML insists it can account for every one of the 314 EUV lithography machines it has ever shipped — and that none of them, nor any component designed for one, has reached China. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says otherwise. The fight reveals just how concentrated the world's chip supply chain has become.
TSMC serves many chip markets, but it does not manufacture every chip in phones, cars or banking systems, and its factories extend beyond Taiwan.
Around 26.5 billion euros in revenue in 2024, about 200,000 employees, and a description, from its own lenders, as the most integrated group in the optical market.
A Silicon Canals piece on why AI exposure follows available training data and task legibility, not a simple ranking of job difficulty.
Here is the rewritten reliability is a hardware problem, when in fact the unsolved part is autonomy in a world the engineers do not control.
COBOL remains embedded in banking and government systems because replacing old code means replacing decades of business logic, not just a programming language.
