TSMC Becomes the Biggest Semiconductor Company in the World

AleksandarK · Jul 20, 2020

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, called TSMC shorty, has just become the world's biggest semiconductor company. The news broke after TSMC's stock reached a peak heights of $66.40 price per share, and market capitalization of 313 billion US dollars. That means that the Taiwanese company officially passed Intel, NVIDIA, and Samsung in terms of market capitalization, which is no small feat. And the news isn't that surprising. TSMC has been rather busy with orders from customers, just waiting for new spots so they can grab a piece of its production pipeline.

TrendForce, a market intelligence provider, estimates that TSMC has an amazing 51.9% of global semiconductor foundry share alone. That is no small feat but TSMC worked hard over the years to make it happen. With constant investments into R&D, TSMC has managed to make itself not only competitive with other foundries, but rather an industry leader. With 5 nm already going in high-volume manufacturing (HVM) in Q4 of this year, the company is demonstrating that it is the market leader with the latest node developments. Smaller nodes like 3 nm are already in development and TSMC doesn't plan to stop.

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bug · Jul 20, 2020

the Taiwanese company officially passed Intel, NVIDIA, and Samsung in terms of market capitalization

I don't think Nvidia is a semiconductor company

AleksandarK · Jul 20, 2020

bug said:
I don't think Nvidia is a semiconductor company

It works with semiconductors. The company also co-operates with folks like TSMC for node development.

birdie · Jul 20, 2020

bug said:
I don't think Nvidia is a semiconductor company

NVIDIA is a fabless semiconductor company.

CapitanXeon · Jul 20, 2020

bug said:
I don't think Nvidia is a semiconductor company

Last time i checked, GPUs were made from semiconductors

bug · Jul 20, 2020

AleksandarK said:
It works with semiconductors. The company also co-operates with folks like TSMC for node development.

Yes and I own semiconductors :wtf:

TSMC, Intel and Samsung all manufacture chips. Nvidia doesn't.

InVasMani · Jul 20, 2020

AMD use to be a semiconductor company as for Nvidia not so much...they did make chipsets for awhile, but that's a sore subject to bring up.

Fluffmeister · Jul 20, 2020

Yeah AMD founder Jerry Sanders said "real men have fabs".

How the mighty have fallen.

BoboOOZ · Jul 20, 2020

It's a highly competitive market.

TheLostSwede · Jul 20, 2020

台灣加油!

bug · Jul 20, 2020

Fluffmeister said:
Yeah AMD founder Jerry Sanders said "real men have fabs".

How the mighty have fallen.

Yeah, that's not inclusive enough for today's standards

Flanker · Jul 20, 2020

TheLostSwede said:
去台湾!

Might want to change that to traditional Chinese (simplied Chinese is associated with China) and it translated to go to Taiwan :laugh:

台灣加油！

BoboOOZ · Jul 20, 2020

bug said:
Yeah, that's not inclusive enough for today's standards

Are you trying to imply Dr Su is not a real man?

TheLostSwede · Jul 20, 2020

Flanker said:
Might want to change that to traditional Chinese (simplied Chinese is associated with China) and it translated to go to Taiwan

台灣加油！

Verpal · Jul 20, 2020

TheLostSwede said:

Looks like Winnie the Pooh grubby hand didn't reach Techpowerup..... YET

Hope it stay that way, CCP can rot in hell.

Dicfylac · Jul 20, 2020

Afertall Nvidia stays as a second, Intel trade with TSMC for the third place in global rank.

Edit: after showing obidience to the Trump's administration.

Money Money Money...

Star_Hunter · Jul 20, 2020

Fluffmeister said:
Yeah AMD founder Jerry Sanders said "real men have fabs".

How the mighty have fallen.

Back then a FAB was much cheaper to own and operate so at that time there were a lot of companies that had FABs. As time has gone by the industry has consolidated and now only Intel and Samsung FAB their own products while everyone else use the foundries (this excludes the memory makers like Micron, Hynix ect), and maybe some microfabs for very low volume.

BoboOOZ · Jul 20, 2020

There are other fabs, it's just they don't all compete in the GPU/CPU market. Global Foundries, STMicroelectronics aren't exactly small.

R0H1T · Jul 20, 2020

birdie said:
NVIDIA is a fabless semiconductor company.

Technically the biggest would be Apple, by a Godly margin :pimp:

R-T-B · Jul 21, 2020

InVasMani said:
AMD use to be a semiconductor company as for Nvidia not so much...they did make chipsets for awhile, but that's a sore subject to bring up.

They never made them from their own silicon foundries.

R0H1T · Jul 22, 2020

R-T-B said:
They never made them from their own silicon foundries.

They did, before spinning off GF sometime around 2008 IIRC.

R-T-B · Jul 22, 2020

R0H1T said:
They did, before spinning off GF sometime around 2008 IIRC.

That'd be AMD, not nvidia.

EDIT: Doh, I am stupid and misread your comment.

Glaceon · Nov 29, 2020

Verpal said:
Looks like Winnie the Pooh grubby hand didn't reach Techpowerup..... YET

Hope it stay that way, CCP can rot in hell.

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mtcn77 · Nov 29, 2020

All the best to TSMC staff. It is hard to establish the quality of excellence they have going for them...

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TSMC Becomes the Biggest Semiconductor Company in the World

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