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TSMC smashes forecasts with record profit

TSMC, the world's main producer of advanced AI chips, today posted a forecast-smashing 35% jump in fourth-quarter profit to a record high, predicted robust annual growth and flagged more US manufacturing capacity was in the works.

Business • 15 Jan

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ASML tops $500 billion market cap as TSMC to spend more

ASML, the world's biggest maker of equipment used to manufacture computer chips, crossed $500 billion in market value for the first time today, after top customer TSMC announced larger than expected capital spending plans to keep up with booming demand for AI chips.

Business • 15 Jan

TSMC's fourth quarter revenue beats forecasts

TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, has today reported fourth-quarter revenue rose 20.45% from a year earlier, beating the market forecast, as demand for the company's products leapt on surging interest in artificial intelligence applications.

Business • 09 Jan

TSMC expects AI megatrend to strengthen

TSMC, the world's biggest producer of advanced AI chips, forecast fourth-quarter revenue up by as much as 24% as it rides an AI boom that saw it post its sixth consecutive quarter of double-digit profit growth, beating estimates.

Business • 16 Oct 25

TSMC's record quarterly profit of $13.5bn beats forecasts

TSMC, the world's main producer of advanced AI chips, posted record profit in the second quarter with forecast-beating growth of 60%, and noted that demand for artificial intelligence was getting stronger and stronger.

Business • 17 Jul 25

TSMC's second-quarter sales rise 38.6%, beating forecasts

TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, has reported second-quarter revenue of T$933.80 billion ($31.9 billion), as demand for the company's products leaps on surging interest in artificial intelligence applications.

Business • 10 Jul 25

TSMC's shares have fallen by 20% this year due to the uncertainty about US trade and tariff policies

TSMC's Q1 profit surges, but Trump policies hit outlook

Taiwan's TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, has logged a forecast-beating 60% leap in quarterly profit, though its outlook has been complicated by US President Donald Trump's unpredictable trade policies.

Business • 17 Apr 25

TSMC expects robust revenue growth in the first three months of the year as demand surges for chips used in artificial intelligence processing

TSMC logs record quarterly profit, sees revenue growth

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has today logged record quarterly profit and said it expects robust revenue growth in the first three months of the year as demand surges for chips used in artificial intelligence processing.

Business • 16 Jan 25

Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Limerick Conor Ryan

Lero in world's first silicon chip design breakthrough

Researchers at Lero, the University of Limerick-based Research Centre for Software, have created the world's first fabrication and design of a silicon chip without direct human input.

Business • 09 Dec 24

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) is the world's biggest contract chipmaker

TSMC's Q3 profit handily beats forecasts on AI boom

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the dominant producer of advanced chips used in artificial intelligence applications, has today reported a forecast-beating 54% jump in third-quarter profit on the back of soaring demand.

Business • 17 Oct 24

TSMC is Asia's most valuable publicly listed company

TSMC quarterly profit soars 36%, beating expectations

TSMC has today posted a 36% jump in second-quarter net profit that beat market expectations as the Taiwanese chipmaker rides a wave of demand for semiconductors used in artificial intelligence applications.

Business • 18 Jul 24

TSMC said production at its first plant in Arizona will be delayed until 2025 due to a shortage of specialist workers

TSMC shares fall as it delays production in US

Shares of Taiwan's TSMC fell more than 3% today after the world's largest contract chipmaker flagged a 10% drop in 2023 sales and said production due to start next year at its first plant in Arizona would be delayed.

Business • 21 Jul 23

TSMC is to more than triple its planned investment at its new Arizona plant to $40 billion

TSMC triples Arizona plant investment to $40 billion

Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC said it would more than triple its planned investment at its new Arizona plant to $40 billion, among the largest foreign investments in US history, as President Joe Biden visited and hailed the project.

Business • 07 Dec 22

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