Silicon Valley often talks about long-term partners. There are few better examples than TSMC. In 2017, we flew to Taipei to ask TSMC to take a bet on us. For a product that didn't exist. Cerebras was 30 people. Pre-product. Pre-revenue. We were asking the greatest manufacturer in the world to collaborate on something that hadn’t been done before. And to work with a company smaller than the catering staff in their dining hall. TSMC’s fabs are our generation's pyramids - $40 to $50 billion, each. Their entire manufacturing process was built around producing chips the size of a postage stamp. We were proposing a chip 55x larger than anything ever made. It had been tried before. And it had failed every time in the 70-year history of computing. TSMC had a thousand reasons to say no. They were already a behemoth. The best in the world at making a completely different kind of chip. Why take the risk? Instead, they greenlit the project in the meeting. And they've been an extraordinary partner ever since. That decision sums up why TSMC continues to win: An openness to new ideas. And a willingness to collaborate, regardless of the size of the company.