14 C. C. Wei

Title: Chief Executive Officer Company: Taiwan Semiconductor( TSMC) Industry: Semiconductors

Geopolitics has a single point of failure and C. C. Wei runs it. TSMC’ s Chairman and CEO oversees the foundry making 90 % of the world’ s most advanced chips, meaning every AI model, phone and supercomputer routes through his fabs. Sole commander since 2024, he has navigated export controls, earthquakes and superpower courtship with a technologist’ s directness, saying plainly what politicians will not. TSMC builds outward, Arizona, Japan and Germany, without surrendering the crown-jewel processes that stay in Hsinchu. He may hold more power per public utterance than anyone else here.

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