TSMC
Makes most of the world's most advanced chips, including nearly all the AI GPUs from Nvidia and AMD.
- Revenue
- Up to $54.3B sales in one quarter. Profit up 69%
- Based in
- Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Founded
- 1987
- Listed
- Public (TSM)
No other factory can yet make the most advanced AI chips at this scale, so every major AI chip designer depends on it.
Almost all of its advanced factories are in Taiwan, which carries geopolitical risk.
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pays TSMC to make its AI GPUs and to package them with memory
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