Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently appeared on the popular Lex Fridman Podcast for a deep, over two-hour discussion covering AI scaling laws, compute and power bottlenecks, AI factories, and the future impact of AI on society. Among the topics drawing strong attention from Taiwan’s market was Huang’s revisit of his 2013 decision to decline an offer from TSMC founder Morris Chang to become CEO. He further analyzed the core factors enabling TSMC’s sustained leadership in the semiconductor industry.