TSMC
The world's chip foundry — manufactures every Nvidia, AMD, Apple, and Broadcom AI chip on advanced nodes.
Previous close $436.69
52-week high
$447.14
52-week low
$141.37
YTD change
+39.90%
The 30-second take
TSMC has a near-monopoly on leading-edge (3nm, 2nm) chip manufacturing — every premium AI chip is fabricated here. The bull case is structural AI capex demand at premium pricing; the bear case is China-Taiwan geopolitical risk, which keeps the multiple compressed vs the rest of the AI stack. In interviews, anchor on: HPC (high-performance compute) revenue mix (now ~50%+), N3/N2 node ramp timing, and the Arizona/Japan diversification CapEx as the geopolitical hedge.
Historical reference points
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- 2022 troughOct 2022$60.00+644.67%
- 2024 all-time highJul 2024$212.00+110.75%
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