If calculated based on the closing price, the market value of TSMC reaches US$287.51 billion, approaching its competitor Samsung (market value is US$288.72 billion).
TSMC was founded in 1987 and is the world's largest foundry semiconductor manufacturer. Its customers include Apple , Qualcomm , Huawei , etc. The company's stock is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange with the stock code 2330, and there are also American depositary receipts listed on , the US New York Stock Exchange , and the stock code is TSM.
At the end of last month, supply chain sources revealed that TSMC will exclusively manufacture Apple A14 processor, which uses a 5nm process and will start mass production by the end of the second quarter of 2020.
supply chain person said that Apple and Huawei HiSilicon are the first two major customers of TSMC 5nm process, among which Apple packages two-thirds of 5nm production capacity of TSMC .
In mid-December last year, data released by TSMC showed that the company had a total revenue of 966.672 billion NT$ (approximately US$ 31.872 billion), a year-on-year increase of 2.7%. Its annual revenue exceeded last year.
TSMC predicted in its third-quarter financial report released on October 17 last year that the company's revenue in the fourth quarter of last year will be between US$10.2 billion and US$10.3 billion; gross profit margin will be between 48% and 50%; and operating profit margin will be between 37% and 39%.
Last week, foreign media reported that TSMC will release its fourth quarter financial report for last year on January 16 this year. In the first three quarters of last year, the company had achieved revenue of $24.25 billion, plus estimated fourth-quarter revenue of $10.2 billion to $10.3 billion, the company's full-year revenue for the whole year was expected to be between $34.47 billion and $34.57 billion, up from $34.2 billion the previous year.
