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Briefly surpassing Berkshire Hathaway on June 20 to rank as the eighth most valuable corporation in the world, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation Limited, more often known as TSMC, became the first Asian company to reach a market capitalization of more than a trillion dollars.
Key Clients and Market Position
The company’s subdued ascent is carried on the wings of its vast portfolio of IT and industry behemoths who buy its semiconductors.
Among semiconductor manufacturers worldwide, TSMC is the biggest one. Its top clients are Apple, AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Intel, and Qualcomm. But Apple is by far its biggest customer, as iPhones use TSMC semiconductors, which account for almost a fifth of its whole income.
TSMC’s great fabrication capacity essentially allows it to occupy a mostly isolated position atop the market. Some of their chips even come from global rivals like AMD, Intel, and Nvidia, which use it as a fabricator.
Also firmly under the control of TSMC is bitcoin mining. The most often used semiconductors among miners are those utilized in the lion’s share of Bitmain Antminer models.
Bitmain makes 98% of the Bitcoin rigs used in China using TSMC chips. Samsung has also expanded its mining operations using its own processors.
From its early-day high of nearly a trillion dollars in market capitalization to a more meager $859.69 billion as of the time this article was written, TSMC has dropped. This places it below Berkshire Hathaway and presently ranks nine among global leaders, ahead of Eli Lilly and Tesla.
Beyond TSMC, the next largest chip producer on the list is Broadcom—aanother chipmaker that outsources fabrication to TSMC—iin 12th position with a market value of $732.4 billion, discounting Nvidia, now ranked third with a market capitalization of $2.9 trillion.
Future Prospects and Challenges
Although the future of the market or the performance of different companies is unknown, TSMC’s special situation lets it profit from the windfalls of its rivals. Its future is entwined with both Apple and Nvidia, for example, and as demand for goods like the iPhone and Nvidia’s GPUs rises, so does the need for additional semiconductors.
Assuming development rates in the artificial intelligence industry and TSMC keeps satisfying demand for new processors, TSMC could become the first Asian business to formally reach the large tech zone at the at the top of the list of most valuable corporations and challenge Meta (formerly Facebook).
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