TSMC manufactures semiconductors for many other brands and is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, commonly called TSMC, was founded in 1987 by Morris Chang. It pioneered the dedicated foundry model, manufacturing chips designed by other companies instead of primarily selling chips under its own consumer brand.
This arrangement allowed companies such as Apple, Nvidia, and AMD to design processors while relying on TSMC’s factories for production. TSMC’s advanced manufacturing processes made it a crucial supplier for smartphones, data centers, high-performance computing, and artificial-intelligence systems.
TSMC is sometimes confused with a chip-design company. Its distinctive role is fabrication: it turns customers’ designs into physical semiconductor wafers. Its market capitalization therefore reflects both manufacturing scale and investor expectations about demand for advanced chips.