After record profits, giant TSMC chips will invest again in the US

TSMC, the world's largest manufacturer of chips per contract, today announced a new investment of 100 billion dollars (87 billion euros) in the United States after recording record quarterly profits driven by artificial intelligence.

16/07/2026
by

Lusa

O new investment will be applied in the industrial complex that the company is developing in the US state of Arizona, raising to $265 billion (EUR 231 billion) the total amount that Taiwanese technology plans to invest in chip production in the United States.

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei announced the decision during the presentation of the results of the second quarter.

Between April and June, the company made a net profit of US$706.56 billion (about EUR 19.2 billion), an annual increase of 77.4%, exceeding analysts' forecasts and establishing a new historical maximum for a single quarter.

Anthropic and Samsung may come to collaborate in chip production

A new rumor suggests that Anthropic and Samsung have maintained contacts to explore the development of custom chips dedicated to Artificial Intelligence. It will also help to combat the shortage of components in the technology industry.

Miguel Patinha Dias

This is the tenth consecutive quarter of the company's profit growth and an increase of 23.4% compared to the first quarter of this year.

Revenue grew by 36% in homologous terms to USD 1.27 billion (EUR 34.5 billion), also above the company's projections.

The TSMC also reviewed the investment plan for this year, raising the capital budget to between 60 billion and 64 billion dollars (52.3 billion and 55.7 billion euros) compared to the previous 52 billion to 56 billion (EUR 45.3 billion and 48.8 billion).

The company has attributed performance to strong demand for advanced chips for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, areas that have sustained the growth of the semiconductor sector.

Manufacturer of memory chips prepares 2nd largest IPO in the history of China

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), the largest Chinese manufacturer of memory chips, has today started the stock subscription for a stock exchange entry that may become China's second largest initial public offer in history.

Lusa

Supplier of companies such as Nvidia, Apple, AMD and Qualcomm, TSMC has been expanding production in Taiwan, the United States and Japan, with a special focus on the most advanced semiconductors, used in data centers, smart mobile phones and AI applications.

In the second quarter, chips produced with 2 nanometer technology, the company's most advanced, accounted for 3% of revenues from silicon wafers, while those produced with 3, 5 and 7 nanometers accounted for 30%, 33% and 11% respectively.

The company's shares have today closed the Taipei Stock Exchange session with an increase of 1.23%, accumulating a valuation of more than 55% since the beginning of the year.