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I hate when acronyms prevent people from understanding important parts of an article. Here you go.

TSMC = "Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited, also known as Taiwan Semiconductor, is the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry" (from Wikipedia).




You are expected to know what TSMC is if you are reading this... People wouldn't expand AMD to Advanced Micro Devices and then explain it develops CPU (Central Processing Unit, in case you didn't know!), would they?


You're expected to know what they are, but I couldn't have given you the full version of either. It's pretty irrelevant to the conversation, more trivia than anything.


I disagree with you. AMD is much more widely known than TSMC.


TSMC is TSMC, just as AMD is AMD. It’s the most commonly used name of the company.


???

If you led an article with "Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company" my brain would chunk uncomfortably undigested stomach units out of orifaces before it understood.

Do you think you are in the majority? If so - I need to readjust my head.





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