Taiwan, where one company, TSMC, makes the frontier chips and, some of it with outside packaging houses, bonds them into their packages. The island in every machine is the book’s phrase for that concentration. Chapter 5.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 5 — The Island in Every Machine
Why every accelerator runs through Taiwan: the foundry, the packaging and the memory that are booked years ahead, and what that does to anyone arriving late with cash.
Where the record uses it
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Island, the.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/island-the (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-island-the-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Island, the}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/island-the},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}