Chips with everything: TSMC posts 60pc profit jump amid AI frenzy
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is the world's largest contract maker of chips and counts Nvidia and Apple among its clients.
TSMC said its net profit for the three months to June soared 60.7 per cent from a year ago to NT$398.3 billion (RM57.4 billion).
That beat expectations of NT$376.97 billion, according to a Bloomberg News survey of analysts.
Second quarter revenue was up 39 per cent on-year, also beating forecasts.
Chips are essential for generative AI, which has exploded in recent years and transformed the global economy.
Nvidia said this week it will resume sales of its H20 AI chips to China after Washington pledged to remove licensing restrictions that had halted exports.
The quarterly results follow Trump's latest barrage of tariffs and renewed threats to impose levies on pharmaceutical products and chips.
TSMC chairman and chief executive CC Wei said last month that the company 'may be affected' if tariffs force up prices and demand for chips falls, but he added: 'Our business will still be very good.'
Taiwan has been locked in negotiations with Washington over Trump's threat to impose a 32 per cent tariff on the island's exports if they don't strike a deal by August 1.
To help its case, Taipei has pledged to increase investment in the United States, buy more US energy and increase its own defence spending. — AFP
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