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… If you're a TSMC employee with an already-overflowing wardrobe, other options include an excellent-sounding "TSMC co-branded Tatung rice cooker." Said cooking implement will apparently have a mirrored silver TSMC logo on the lid, and a circuit-themed design. …
… The services affected include TSMC's 7nm and more advanced fabrication processes. As TSMC accounts for over 70% of the global semiconductor foundry market , Big Tech will have little choice but to pay the bill when it's due. …
… According to one source , the average annual employee bonus at TSMC is $90,000, which is not insignificant. On the other hand, TSMC raked in record profits of $54 billion in 2025, in part thanks to the ongoing AI boom. TSMC is variously reported as having around 80,000 to 90,000 employees. …
… TSMC makes high-performance logic, however, and we haven't seen anything from China on the processor-making front that's likely to threaten TSMC just yet. That being said, taking IP and trade secrets from TSMC could change that. …
… In short, we could really do without TSMC extracting its "value" from us. TSMC made $54 billion in profit in 2025 . …
… But why not just use TSMC's N4? …
… It's unclear whether TSMC's new $100 billion plans are the result of similar conversations, and if so to what extent. …
AMD and Nvidia's GPUs are currently built on 4 nm-class silicon by TSMC. And they're not exactly cheap. Meanwhile, TSMC has indicated that it would like to put the prices it charges to chip designers up . …
… Nvidia is reportedly TSMC's biggest buyer , beating out Apple, which used to be at the top of the list, with the company providing the chips in all of its phones, laptops, and tablets. However, TSMC has been struggling to meet demand for a while now. …
… Instead, Culpan says the supply chain and most notably TSMC may be at least part of the explanation. As he points out, Intel's Panther Lake CPUs have CPU tiles built on the in-house 18A node. But the I/O tile is made by TSMC. …