Real Impact & TechSoda: When AI Stories and Semiconductors Collide

What happens when a Brazilian storyteller chasing the soul of technology meets a Taiwanese tech expert—over coffee, with robots on the rise and semiconductors quietly powering the world

It was one of those rainy Sunday afternoons that made Taiwan’s coffee shops feel even cozier—wooden walls humming with quiet conversations, the scent of roasted beans rising like steam off the sidewalk outside. Inside, two people met—not strangers, but not yet friends. Each carried the weight of their own corner of the world: one from Brazil, the other from Taiwan.

Real Impact, a channel that believes personal stories are the most powerful way to understand technology, had traveled a long way—across time zones and cultures—to find common ground. TechSoda, a storyteller rooted in neutrality, nuance and deep tech experience, was already seated with a notebook open and a tea cooling beside it.

Folow TechSoda and

Judy Lin 林昭儀

The conversation that followed was as warm and strong as the coffee served.

They didn’t start with charts or specs. They started with questions. About robots. About semiconductors. About how something as tiny as a chip could ripple through economies, change businesses, and shape the lives of everyday people.

Humanoids will represent 16.3% of all robots by 2050 and in 10 years, the population of humanoids around us should exceed 200 million. That’s the forecast. But the real question, shared between sips of espresso, was: Will these humanoids be smarter than us? And more importantly: What will that mean for us—not as engineers or economists, but as citizens, and humans?

There were no final answers, only shared wonder. Two channels, two voices, one common mission—to tell the stories that matter, before the future arrives and rewrites them for us.

It was a meeting that didn’t feel like work. It felt like the beginning of something real.

A real impact, if you will.