Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. TSM

What this company does

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited manufactures semiconductors as a foundry, using its own manufacturing processes and the proprietary integrated circuit designs that its customers provide. It offers wafer fabrication processes covering complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor logic, mixed-signal, radio frequency, embedded memory and bipolar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor mixed-signal circuits, and also offers design, mask making, TSMC 3DFabric advanced silicon stacking and packaging services, and testing services. The company operates one 150mm wafer fab, six 200mm wafer fabs, nine 300mm wafer fabs and seven advanced backend fabs. Its corporate headquarters and nine of its fabs are located in the Hsinchu Science Park, two fabs in the Central Taiwan Science Park, seven in the Southern Taiwan Science Park, two in the United States, one in Shanghai, one in Nanjing and one in Japan. In 2025, annual capacity measured in 12-inch equivalent wafers exceeded 17 million wafers. Its customers range from fabless semiconductor companies and system companies to integrated device manufacturers. Research and development spending reached NT$246,427 million in 2025, representing 6.5% of net revenue. The company was founded in 1987 as a joint venture among the R.O.C. government and other private investors, and was incorporated in the R.O.C. as a company limited by shares on February 21, 1987.

Written from the business description in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 16 April 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.