Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

Morris Chang had certainly considered the possibility of losing. After speaking with various organizations that morning, he was fairly certain that he could not prevent Chen Yi-ran from joining TSMC's board of directors. He even knew very well that the final vote would be an exceptionally large margin of defeat.

This, however, will not diminish his fighting spirit. He is already prepared to engage in a fierce battle with Chen Yi-ran's Aurora Group within TSMC. He is an academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, a member of the Board of Trustees of MIT, an academician of the Taiwan Academy of Mechanical Engineering, and an advisor to the New York Stock Exchange and Stanford University. He is widely recognized as the king of chips and the godfather of semiconductors.

When he graduated, at the age of 24, he received job offers from both Ford and Sylvania. However, he ultimately chose Sylvania because of its higher monthly salary of one dollar, even though it was a relatively unknown small company.

However, he later felt that perhaps deep down, he was more interested in chips. He continued to be a top figure in the industry and later founded TSMC, the world's first professional semiconductor foundry, pioneering the professional semiconductor foundry business.

He wasn't ready to surrender to the young people yet; he felt he could still fight.

However, the final voting results shattered his last bit of fighting spirit. Apart from the approximately 15% of absent shareholders who abstained, 72% of the shareholders voted in favor, while only 13% voted against along with him.

The National Development Fund, various state-owned banks, plus local life insurance companies and investment trusts such as Cathay, Fubon, and Shin Kong, together account for about 12%, while he himself, with less than 1%, naturally voted against it.

But the employees he picked up by car did not vote against him, which was something he had never expected.

After the votes were counted, the audience erupted in cheers. They all knew that no matter what the future held, at least in the short term, TSMC had entered the so-called "Chen Yiran sector," and its stock price was bound to rise.

Morris Chang stood up, looked at the crowd below the stage, and tapped the wooden mallet in his hand.

After the dust settled, the tense atmosphere from before disappeared, and the people below the stage looked at the octogenarian with a hint of sympathy.

Morris Chang suddenly realized that he wasn't so unwilling anymore. He smiled and said in the direction where the TSMC employees were gathered, "If I had known, I wouldn't have sent a car to pick you all up. You didn't even vote with me."

Most of the TSMC employees in the audience looked around, not daring to look at him.

Morris Chang sighed and said, "Don't be afraid to look at me, I don't blame you."

I've said before that life shouldn't be too perfect; having a gap so that good fortune can flow to others is a beautiful thing. Now I feel that I was wrong before, and this feeling is really unpleasant.

Many of the things I said before seem to have been problematic. I even said that I exist because I work, and that the meaning of life is work. Now I feel like I'm about to lose my job, which doesn't feel so bad. Retiring peacefully and enjoying life is pretty good too.

To TSMC employees, after I leave, remember the cornerstones of TSMC: Integrity, Commitment, Innovation, and Customer Trust (ICIC).

A round of enthusiastic applause erupted from the audience, and TSMC employees joined in the applause. For TSMC, Morris Chang's retirement signified the end of an era.

Five minutes later, with the applause still not subsiding, Morris Chang had no choice but to wave his hand to quiet the room again. He took out a prepared statement and said, "The necessary procedures still need to be followed. Although I am retiring, I still want to make one last effort, otherwise it would be disrespectful to our allies."

First of all, I would like to announce that Mr. Chen Yiran of Aurora Group has been officially appointed as the new director of TSMC.

Now, let's move on to the main agenda item of this extraordinary shareholders' meeting: reviewing and voting on the "Strategic Cooperation with Google Maze EDA and Adjustments to Customer Policies."

This time, it was indeed a formality. With the tide turning against them, apart from the National Development Fund, which remained firmly opposed to Chen Yiran, everyone else voted against it, preventing in-depth cooperation with Google.

TSMC's shareholders' meeting has finally ended, but its impact has been enormous.

The most panicked are Google and Nvidia, who previously thought today would be a day for a counterattack and a day to further solidify their alliance.

Google even promoted this shareholder meeting, posting on YouTube a few days ago that they would be live-streaming the entire event.

After being suddenly attacked in the morning, Google's top management hesitated for a long time before finally deciding to take a gamble, hoping that Morris Chang's long-standing influence could stabilize the situation.

They continued the live stream throughout the afternoon, broadcasting the entire shareholder meeting vote live. Google's top executives also witnessed firsthand how their ally was undermined from within by Chen Yiran.

It was already past midnight Pacific Time, but their excitement kept them awake. The same was true for Nvidia; the man in the yellow jacket held a video conference with Google in the early hours of the morning.

They need allies now, but none of the major foundries are suitable. GlobalFoundries and UMC are the best options, and they are now taking on a large number of Aurora's orders.

Apple, Samsung, and Aurora are all major chip consumers; their orders alone are enough to feed all the world's high-end wafer fabs.

For a full five minutes, the executives from Google and Nvidia were frozen in place, no one speaking, all hoping someone else would come up with a solution.

The man in yellow was struggling internally. He disagreed with Google and wanted to fight Chen Yiran on the framework of deep learning, a fight that could be described as a fight to the death.

He is actually capable of knee sliding, and he and Chen Yiran had a good relationship in the past. If he gets a share of the profits, he has a good chance of winning over the training market.

But before that, he decided to make one last effort: "How much cash does Google have left? Let's build our own wafer fab together."

In Google's conference room, Chairman Schmidt nodded: "This is the only way. Let's find a decent company and acquire it."

CEO Larry Page frowned and remained silent. He wasn't optimistic about the proposal; wafer fabs were far more troublesome. They hadn't even figured out EDA yet, and now they were going to try to do chip manufacturing as well? It seemed like they were getting deeper and deeper into trouble.

Schmidt saw his hesitation and said helplessly, "We have no way out. If we admit defeat now, we're handing over our future to others. We can last at least five years, burning through billions of dollars each year."

Over the next five years, we must fully highlight the advantage of our framework being completely free; that's the only thing we can do right now.

Furthermore, we need to increase investment in the Chinese developer ecosystem; we need more people to use our framework. We should send people directly to China to provide technical support to Chinese companies like Baidu and Alibaba. We should also find outstanding Chinese students and encourage them to start related businesses.

Then they specifically sought out some non-profit organizations to start promoting Chen Yiran's advanced technology in China, saying that our technology is cheap but there is a huge gap, stirring up public opinion, arguing that as a Chinese person, Chen Yiran should give up some interests for the development of the country, shouldn't he?

We need to subtly suggest that Chinese companies leverage their government connections to influence administrative intervention and seek free or discounted access to Deepflow. After all, wouldn't that benefit the country's technological development?

If Chen Yiran agrees, we can use this opportunity to launch an attack on Chen Yiran in the United States.

Gentlemen, remember we have only five years. For the next five years, every moment must be treated as our last. Starting tomorrow, every means to win this war will be available.