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a Magnificent Monday that you had a
wonderful holiday weekend we're so happy
to be right back here with you let's
start today talking about Electronics
last week we explored the growing
challenge of E-Waste as there's a major
effort underway to find new ways to
manage all of the growing piles of
electronic device garbage and leftovers
but that was only part of the story
because at the very same time the demand
for computer chips continues to rise and
there's one company making more of them
than anyone else located in Taiwan the
Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing
company is one of the world's most
secretive tech companies CNN's will
Ripley recently gained rare access to
the training facility to uncover what it
takes to work there and how they create
these modern-day chips that run our
smartphones laptops and cars and tmsc is
expanding its operations as demand for
its Advanced chips continues to Boom
CNN's will Ripley has
more this is taiwan's epicenter of
technological Revolution where Precision
meets Innovation and Tiny chips power
Big Dreams this is tsmc Taiwan
semiconductor Manufacturing Company
commanding more than 50% of the global
market produc producing more than 90% of
the world's most advanced chips to say
it's difficult to gain access to Taiwan
semiconductor Manufacturing Company
would be the understatement of the year
or maybe two years because that's about
how long it's taken my team and I to get
permission to come here Behind These
Walls some of the world's most advanced
highly secretive technology it's so
secret you have to check your phone your
laptop anything that emits a signal just
to walk through the door as demand for
AI driven Technologies Soares tsmc is
the go-to global manufacturer sending
stocks skyrocketing the company's
Workforce
77,000 strong and growing a far cry from
its humble beginnings in 1987 says the
senior vice president of Human Resources
Laura hoe what is it like to run HR for
what is arguably the most important
company in the world right now I think
now HR is very different than the HR
then because we are fast expanding our
Global footprint
tsmc says it needs to hire thousands of
new employees over the next few years to
fill chip factories or Fabs under
construction right now across Taiwan and
around the world last month tsmc opened
its first Fab in Kumamoto Japan with the
help of billions of dollars in
government subsidies they're also
building new Fabs in Dresden Germany and
Phoenix Arizona what's the most
challenging location where you're trying
to build a factory right now I think I
think Arizona is is more difficult
regulations and the culture is different
we have to adjust to local culture and
different employees why the decision to
do the more advanced technology in
Arizona our Leading Age customer are
mostly American companies so to serve
their need in their home country that's
the objective that Arizona Fab is facing
chronic delays we need some more help
with it though for sure the price tag
skyrocketing making chips outside of
Taiwan and making them profitable will
likely require huge government subsidies
they estimated the uh cost in the US
compared with Taiwan is about 40% more
expensive but right now because of the
inflation all these kind of issues right
now they think it's probably two times
or three times more expensive tsmc's
overseas expansion must overcome massive
hurdles an expansion world leaders say
is necessary to protect the global chip
supply chain from potentially disastrous
disruptions we got a taste of that
during the pandemic months long waits
for new phones laptops and other Tech
any major disruption could mean waiting
years for cuttingedge Tech Taiwan is a
volcanic island prone to earthquakes
typhoons and other natural disasters
there's earthquake for example
earthquake uh I think all our engineer
engineer knows need to go back to the
the company soon doesn't matter what
time it is is if it's mini they will
come back perhaps the biggest threat to
tsmc's supply chain also one of its
biggest customers Rising tensions with
China the company's stock is surging
anyway as other nations scramble to
catch up with Taiwan I don't think it
would take away the
strength because uh we are still very
highly concentrated in Taiwan and the
most Leading Age Technology we
absolutely starting from Taiwan Beyond
its core semiconductor business tsmc is
exploring New Frontiers in advanced
packaging Paving the way for enhanced
processing power and Energy Efficiency
pushing the boundaries of what's
possible in today's fast-moving world of
Tech Will Ripley CNN ta Chung
Taiwan 10c trivia what event made
baseball history in 1903 first inter
league game first night game first World
Series first per perfect
game batter up in 1903 the Boston
Americans defeated the Pittsburgh
Pirates in the first ever World
Series buy me some peanuts and Cracker
Jacks folks baseball season is
officially underway and for today's
story getting a 10 out of 10 we're
looking at a different kind of baseball
have you ever heard of the Savannah
bananas they're an exhibition baseball
team that thought baseball was ripe for
some change and they peeled back what
they called the boring bites and pitched
an entirely new game it's called banana
ball our Andy scholes is on the
story bats on fire swinging a hot stick
players on stilts backflip catches the
best backflip we've ever seen and
dancing lots and lots of
dancing the Savannah bananas have
exploded in in popularity since their
Inception in 2016 to the point now where
they are selling out Major League
ballparks when we first start we only
sold a handful of tickets and so we were
just trying to make sure B baseball or
banana ball could eventually work in
Savannah and now to see it with you know
weight list over two million people and
selling out major league stadiums and a
million fans this year I don't think
anyone could have written this up
Banana's owner Jesse Cole and his wife
Emily put everything they had into
starting the bananas with the mission to
make baseball fun they have cly done
that he clears Kell back up the middle
it's a base hit so much fun getting a
ticket to see the Savannah bananas is as
tough as a Taylor Swift concert with
hundreds of thousands of people on the
wait list this is
B the team now has more than 8 million
followers on Tik Tok and one of their
Stars Jackson olssen well he himself has
more Tik Tok followers than any major
league team team pretty crazy I started
it for fun and I'm still doing it for
fun and I think that's probably probably
a reason why uh I've done it every day
for almost 3 years now and I'm loving it
more every day so to be a banana what's
more important is it being able to dance
or play baseball really nice dance to
get to the outside corner I think you
got to have a great mix of both because
all these guys out here have such
amazing personalities and are outside of
the box but they also can play really
well some of the most talented guys from
all over the country D1 level some xros
man we're all coming firing guns blazing
these guys are tremendously skilled I
mean they've all many of them play
professional baseball from first round
draft picks the top you know top
recruits and then now they can also
dance or they can do back flips or they
can do all that and I think that's
really important you have to be able to
entertain and you know name of our
company spans First Entertainment our
mission spans first entertain always you
got to be able to entertain so if you
can just play ball you might not be a
great fit for us now the bananas play by
their own rules known as banana ball and
there are so many fun quirks including
the back can steal first phase at any
point during an bat and if a fan catches
a foul ball it's an out foul caught by a
fan and that's your ball game that is
it's like the cherry on top of the cake
you know when a fan gets to be a part of
our show actually coming onto the field
we're celebrating with him because they
just made one of the biggest plays of
the whole game as soon as this ball is
hit over the net it's more intense than
it is when it's hit in Fair Play because
we're like holy cow like a fan has a
chance to catch this the whole crowd's
zoomed in on it it's a special moment
it's by far my favorite rule now
watching the bananas is a blast but
could I be a banana oh not even close
I'll stick to being a
fan Andy busting out the dance moves I
see you buddy all right Superstars
that's all we have time for for today
let's head on over to Livingston Middle
School in California for a shout out
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