Podcasts

Rare interview with the founder of TSMC Morris Chang

February 21, 2025

The key company that builds most of the processors used in your phones and devices is TSMC. The Acquired podcast flew to Taiwan and interviewed the founder of TSMC, Morris Chang. Lots of good stories of how they started and how TSMC started building chips for Apple.

Your data goes through Ciena’s Fiber compression algorithm

February 20, 2025

Ciena figures out ways to increase throughput of fiber channels. The Verge Decoder podcast interviewed the CEO Gary Smith. It is one of those companies that you have never heard of but has been plugging away for 20 years. It’s a public company and all your data is squeezed down fiber lines using the

Reading Homo Deus

March 5, 2018