Benedict Evans Essays · Jul 9, 02:15 PM UTC
Ways to think about token pricing
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“In theory, you can model this bottom-up. You can make some assumptions around each of the variables I suggested above, and then try to model out how many chips there are now, how many chips with what performance TSMC and the rest of the sem”
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The transcript is a general market-framework essay on AI token pricing and infrastructure economics. Although TSMC is explicitly named in segments 4 and 16, the discussion is contextual and analytical, not a forward-looking statement about TSMC's business. The author explicitly states that analogies have no predictive value and that outcomes are uncertain. There is no material positive or negative catalyst for TSMC, no directional claim about its expected fundamentals, and no actionable investment signal. The content is therefore non-actionable.
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