Kandou vs TSMC
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Kandou (now Kandou AI) raised $225M Series A led by Maverick Silicon with SoftBank and Synopsys; has shipped 20M+ units of its Chord Signaling copper-interconnect chiplets to hyperscalers.
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Kandou is a Swiss-founded semiconductor company specializing in high-speed chip interconnect and signal conditioning technology. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, Kandou developed Chord Signaling — a proprietary low-power, low-latency multi-wire signaling technology that dramatically improves data throughput efficiency between chips. Its chiplet products and IP are used in data centers, AI infrastructure, and consumer electronics, and the company has shipped more than 20 million units with deployments at major hyperscalers.
Hsinchu Taiwan global foundry leader (NYSE: TSM) at $87.1B FY2024 revenue (+34%); AI chip revenue 3x growth with N2 2nm production 2025 and Arizona/Japan expansion serving Apple/NVIDIA competing with Samsung Foundry.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is a Hsinchu, Taiwan-headquartered pure-play semiconductor foundry — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TSM) and Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE: 2330) at approximately $800+ billion market capitalization — operating as the world's largest contract chipmaker with 60%+ global foundry market share, manufacturing semiconductors for Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and 500+ other fabless chip design companies. In FY2024, TSMC generated $87.1 billion in revenue (+34% year-over-year) with AI-related chip revenue growing 3x annually, reflecting the GPU and custom AI accelerator demand from hyperscalers. In 2025, TSMC's 2-nanometer (N2) process technology entered volume production (the world's most advanced at-scale semiconductor manufacturing), while the Arizona Fab 21 Phase 1 (4nm/N4P) began production in late 2024 and the Kumamoto, Japan fab opened in 2024. CEO C.C. Wei. Founded 1987 by Morris Chang, who pioneered the pure-play foundry model that separated chip design from manufacturing.
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