TSMC's co-chief operating officer, Y. Mii, believes that artificial intelligence is akin to a three-year-old Superman. The executive made the remarks while speaking to students of the National Taiwan University, and his remarks came as the debate about AI intensifies following remarks by executives and media reports of rogue software. Mii insisted that humans should be the only ones who make decisions when it comes to AI, and also discussed the factors that influence TSMC's decision to invest in advanced manufacturing process technology nodes. The TSMC executive was speaking at an event organized by the United Daily News, the TSMC Education Foundation, and the National Taiwan University. Mii outlined that his firm was using AI extensively when it came to coding applications, as coding is relatively basic compared to other tasks, and the AI tools relied on were already very powerful. He also shared that AI can be used in chip design and electronic design automation, and firms such as Synopsys and Cadence, along with Chinese firms, are already relying on agentic AI to contribute to the EDA design process. Mii outlined that the reason AI was suitable to chip design was due to the fixed nature of the process's inputs and outputs.

An executive view on AI in chip design. The three-year-old Superman is the analogy, and the human decision-making is the principle. The coding applications are the use case, and the chip design and EDA are the use cases. The National Taiwan University is the venue, and the United Daily News, TSMC Education Foundation, and National Taiwan University are the organizers. The advanced manufacturing process technology nodes are the investment target, and the 1.4-nanometer node is the specific node.

The executive view is the change, and the three-year-old Superman is the analogy that makes it a view.

The specific AI use cases, the decision-making framework, and whether the view is TSMC's official position. The report gives the analogy and the use cases, but not a decision-making framework or an official position, and the three-year-old Superman is the analogy, not a measured result.

For the semiconductor industry, an executive view on AI in chip design is a signal of the company's AI strategy, and the three-year-old Superman is the analogy that makes it a view.

TSMC's co-chief operating officer Y. J. Mii says AI is akin to a three-year-old Superman, and humans should be the only ones who make decisions when it comes to AI. An executive view on AI in chip design.