Wei Zhejia, chairman and president of TSMC, recently expressed his views on the current booming robot industry. He bluntly pointed out that some robots currently on the market that frequently display jumping and other actions are more ornamental than practical.Wei Zhejia said that although some robots in mainland China can jump around, their actual use is not much, and they are more just good-looking. In his view, the core criterion to truly measure the value of a robot is whether its brain can operate effectively and provide substantial services to humans.
He particularly emphasized the fundamental role of chips in the field of robotics and revealed that currently about 95% of the world's robot brain chips are manufactured by TSMC. This means that in the process of pursuing intelligence, the reliability of the underlying hardware is a key that cannot be ignored.
Wei Zhejia said that the reason why he pays close attention to the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics is because he considers his future life needs. He imagines that in the future, people may not need to go to the hospital when they get sick, but can simply enter information such as region into the computer to get a prescription.
In Wei Zhejia's blueprint, robots have advantages that humans cannot match. They do not need to eat or sleep, and they will neither complain nor lose their temper at work unless humans specifically teach them to do so. This high degree of stability makes robots an extremely important labor force supplement in future society.
With the rapid development of AI technology, the labor intensity of the medical industry is expected to be alleviated. Wei Zhejia also responded humorously to rumors about overworked employees at TSMC. He believed that in comparison, medical practitioners such as doctors actually have more work pressure, and AI will make a huge contribution to the medical field.
At present, the changes of artificial intelligence in medical and other fields have just begun, and there is still broad room for development in the future. Wei Zhejia clearly expressed his brand persistence. He hopes that the transistors inside the robots he will use in the future will all be manufactured by TSMC.
He jokingly said that if future robots use chips made by other manufacturers, he may want to seriously consider whether to use them. This statement not only demonstrates TSMC’s technological confidence, but also reveals its ambition to continue to control the core supply chain in the future intelligent era.
