The Obvious and the Unexpected
Your first thought probably goes to Taiwan Semiconductor, or TSMC. And you’d be right. As the world’s premier contract chip manufacturer, they are the Savile Row tailor in a world that suddenly needs a lot of very fine suits. Their cutting-edge technology is, for now, irreplaceable. Chinese firms building the next generation of infrastructure can’t just pop down to the corner shop for a cheaper alternative. While the political dance between Taiwan and the mainland is endlessly complicated, business, it seems, finds a way.
Then you have an old dog with a potential new trick, Intel. It’s a bit ironic, isn’t it? One American giant gets the boot while another might just sneak in through the back door. Intel’s server processors are already the engine room for data centres across the globe. With a key competitor in the memory space sidelined, their position becomes even more critical. What’s more, their burgeoning foundry business, making chips for others, could pick up some of the slack. It’s a strange twist, but in this game, you take your opportunities where you find them.