Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is the world’s most valuable semiconductor company and the sole manufacturer of the world’s most advanced chips. Founded in 1987 in the Hsinchu Science Park by Dr. Morris Chang, TSMC fabricates chips for Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, and virtually every leading chip designer on earth.
TSMC’s 3nm and 2nm process nodes are years ahead of any Chinese competitor. SMIC, China’s leading fab, remains stuck at 7nm — the same node TSMC passed in 2018. When you buy a device powered by Apple Silicon, an AMD Ryzen CPU, or an NVIDIA RTX GPU, you are buying something only Taiwan can make.
TSMC’s existence is one of the most compelling arguments for supporting Taiwan’s sovereignty and democratic stability.