Heads of chip giants Nvidia, TSMC meet in Taiwan as tight chip supply threatens to hinder AI boom
- Nvidia founder Jensen Huang met with TSMC founder Morris Chang and CEO C.C. Wei over dinner in Taipei to discuss chip supply
- Taiwan-born Huang, who arrived in Taipei after his first trip to mainland China in four years, acknowledged the island’s computer industry
The heads of the world’s two most valuable chip firms met in Taipei over dinner to discuss the Taiwanese firm’s role as producer of the Nvidia chips that now power the majority of generative AI training systems worldwide, Huang told reporters in Taipei.
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While Nvidia has said little about that low-profile tour, Huang talked openly Thursday about Taiwan and TSMC’s pivotal role in Nvidia’s business as well as the broader semiconductor sector.
“The single greatest challenge in AI, of course, is scaling the capacity of AI,” Huang said before heading into his company’s local annual new year celebrations. “And so we’re working very hard, TSMC, all of our supply chain partners here, are working very hard to keep up with the demand.”
