Organisation
TSMC
The world's largest contract chipmaker, effectively the sole manufacturer of the leading-edge silicon that Nvidia, Apple, AMD and Broadcom design.
TSMC — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company — is the world's largest contract chipmaker, founded in 1987 by Morris Chang, which invented the model of manufacturing chips that other companies design. In the AI era that has made it a choke point: the leading-edge processors sold by Nvidia, Apple, AMD and Broadcom are almost all fabricated in its Taiwan plants, giving it a dominant share of advanced foundry work. Its central position also ties it to the geopolitics of Taiwan and to US–China export controls, and it has been building new fabs in the United States, Japan and Germany partly in response.
- Category
- Compute, chips & infrastructure
- Founded
- 1987
- HQ
- Hsinchu, TW
- Funding
- Publicly listed (NYSE: TSM); market value above $1tn (2025)
- Key people
- C.C. Wei
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TSMC reports record quarterly revenue as demand for its most advanced chips grows
Advanced nodes of 7 nanometres and below reached 79% of wafer revenue, and TSMC guided fourth-quarter revenue up a further 14% at the midpoint.
Compute & infrastructure · Money & business
ASML and TSMC launch joint push for 12-inch photomasks to unlock High-NA EUV
The initiative targets a 12-inch mask pilot line by 2031, after TSMC starts using today's smaller 6-inch-mask High-NA systems in advanced-node production from 2030.
Compute & infrastructure