Lex Fridman
A food tour of Taiwan, and how the island built its chip industry
with Jensen Huang, 1 h 30 min
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- Podcaster Lex Fridman spends days in Taiwan with Jensen Huang, who founded and runs Nvidia, the world's most valuable company.
- Most of the video is food and crowds, at street stalls and at Computex, a giant computer conference in Taipei.
- Lex wants to know why Taiwan makes more than 90% of the most advanced chips.
- TSMC is a foundry, a factory making other companies' chips, and Nvidia has worked with it for 30 years.
- Jensen wants export controls, limits on selling technology abroad, extremely selective, balanced against American technology reaching customers worldwide.
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At Computex, Jensen draws rock star crowds and asks Taiwan to build AI's next computers.
Night markets were Jensen's family outings, and food here puts generosity first.
Taiwan's lead came from a 1950s vision, then the PC boom, then its people.
Jensen hopes the AI boom can bring manufacturing back to America.
Jensen wants export controls kept selective, so American technology keeps spreading.
Nvidia's calls to TSMC went unanswered until a long letter reached Morris Chang.
Jensen chose TSMC for its values, and kept the relationship loose for 30 years.
Jensen wants partners to win, and agrees with Lex that it brings his own success.
If you only watch 21 min
For people who like street food and want to hear Nvidia's early story from its founder.
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