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Using AI to find ways to improve TSMC's manufacturing process, efficiency, and yield would count as R&D.

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“could say that like right now, if you just had replaced the TSMC process engineers with AIs and they're finding different ways in which to.”
“to improve that process and like you know improve efficiencies improve yield i”
“would kind of call that r&d”
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