Benedict Evans Essays · Jul 9, 02:15 PM UTC
Ways to think about token pricing
Historical operation · Retained
“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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Model assessment
The transcript provides a detailed analysis of the AI infrastructure market, explicitly mentioning TSMC's de facto monopoly on the frontier and its 'nice margins.' However, the author's central thesis is that the future market structure is highly uncertain and that 'analogies don't have predictive value.' The text does not present a material positive or negative catalyst for TSMC's expected fundamentals. It describes a current state and a range of possible outcomes without asserting which is more likely. This is a general industry analysis with no actionable directional signal for the target.
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