# Stop Buying Chips, Fall Behind. Keep Buying, Go Broke.

- slug: stop-buying-chips-fall-behind-keep-buying-go-broke
- date: 2026-04-02
- category: Space & Aerospace

TSMC is running its most advanced chipmaking node past 100 percent of design capacity. That is the physical ceiling the AI labs are bumping up against — and nobody is willing to step back first.

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