TSMC
Taiwan-based TSMC manufactures and markets integrated circuits, offering wafer production, testing, and design services.
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1987Taiwan-based TSMC manufactures and markets integrated circuits, offering wafer production, testing, and design services.
TSMC exclusively manufactures its customers' designs, so foundry customers compete against no chip portfolio of its own. Operating the world's largest mask making operation anchors photomask supply inside every design it commits to market.
Fabs across Taiwan, wholly owned plants in Arizona, Nanjing, Washington, and China, and a majority-owned Japan fabricator give customers dedicated capacity across several regions, alongside the Open Innovation Platform ecosystem of IP, EDA, design, cloud, and value-chain partners.
Source: tsmc.com
TSMC's revenue comes from manufacturing other companies' chip designs, so its sales follow its 534 customers' product cycles rather than any chip line of its own. Its 2025 output — 12,682 products on 305 distinct technologies and over 17 million twelve-inch equivalent wafers of annual capacity — fed end markets led by high performance computing and smartphones.
Design teams enter through the Open Innovation Platform, prototype on CyberShuttle runs, and place volume production with fabs in Taiwan and subsidiaries in Arizona, Nanjing, Washington, China, and Japan.
Source: tsmc.com
TSMC manufactures integrated circuits as a dedicated foundry, fabricating wafers that fabless designers and semiconductor companies specify for their own end products. In 2025 it produced 12,682 different products using 305 distinct technologies for 534 different customers.
Its plant network delivered more than 17 million twelve-inch equivalent wafers of annual capacity in 2025, serving end markets that include high performance computing, smartphones, IoT, automotive, and digital consumer electronics.
Source: tsmc.com