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Supplier co-location can shorten qualification cycles, but operations remain three years away and capacity is undisclosed.

Tran Capital Management, an investment management company, released its second-quarter investor letter for its “Multi Cap Growth Strategy”. You can download a copy of the letter here. In Q2, the Strategy returned 17.5% net (YTD 10.5%), outperforming the S&P 500 (15.2%) and Bloomberg U.S. Mid Cap Index (11.1%). Patient discipline during Q1’s sell-off drove these […]

Taiwan Semiconductor offers plenty of upside potential with little risk.

After Nvidia, AMD and Apple design the AI chips and TSMC makes them, TSE Technology steps in to complete the process.

The best AI models are made by U.S. companies but lower-cost, open-weight options from China are increasingly competitive.

Taiwan Semiconductor holds a massive market share advantage.

Some institutional investors bought a large volume of Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) call options expiring in almost 9 months. The strike price is higher (out of the money), implying they are bullish on TSM.

The arrival of mainstream agentic AI is forcing many to rethink their CPU demand forecast. AMD's Lisa Su thinks we're only getting started.

Intel has staged one of the most dramatic stock reversals in recent memory, but our proprietary model says the rally has outrun reality. Here is what needs to happen for the thesis to actually work.

Taiwan Semiconductor's A14 process technology is gaining strong customer traction, with tape-outs ahead of schedule and volume production targeted for 2028.

Taiwan’s Taiex gained as continued positive sentiment around AI and tech stocks on Wall Street sent the Nasdaq to another record high.

The Thornburg Investment Income Builder fund’s “nerdy” investment strategy has delivered a one-year return of 29%.

A deep dive into the rivalry between Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor shows why chip foundries are AI's real bottleneck, how Intel's 18A/14A comeback stacks up, and which foundry stock fits your risk.

Intel just staged one of its fastest rallies in years, but the analyst who called the price target before the surge thinks the move is still missing its most important catalyst.

Kaohsiung's new validation hub could shorten qualification cycles without adding disclosed production capacity.

TSMC (TSM) has been one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com users lately. So, it is worth exploring what lies ahead for the stock.

Key TakeawaysTSMC’s gross margin expanded from 59% in the June 2025 quarter to 68% in June 2026, even as management guided the next quarter down to 66% on 2 nanometer ramp dilution, a step back that is small next to the year’s climb. Quarterly capital expenditure jumped to $15.

Stock markets climbed on Tuesday as the success of Meta's new AI agent and US-China talks on artificial intelligence fanned a tech-led rally.- AI apocalypse - US and Chinese economic officials met Sunday in New York for closely watched talks on trade and artificial intelligence to lay the groundwork for the meeting.

TSMC's advanced-packaging industrial park signals a surge in chip manufacturing complexity, and the companies that profit most will not be the ones building the packages. Three equipment suppliers sit at a critical chokepoint where every additional package produced forces a spending decision manufacturers cannot easily avoid.

GFS is expanding gross margins through a richer revenue mix, manufacturing gains and higher utilization, while future gains hinge on execution.

AMD stock gained as much as 10% on Monday, extending a five-session winning streak driven by renewed demand for AI chips

ASML Holding stock: why fresh chip alliances are back in focus ASML Holding (ENXTAM:ASML) has landed a cluster of high profile partnerships with TSMC, Samsung, Intel and Xanadu that pushes its High NA EUV and quantum oriented lithography deeper into next generation chipmaking. These fresh agreements are landing after a powerful run in ASML Holding’s share price, with a year to date share price return of 46.61% and a 1 year total shareholder return of 79.51%. However, momentum has cooled over...

Taiwan is building supplier-validation infrastructure, but operations remain three years away.

A supply-chain report lit a fuse under AMD shares Monday morning, but the move hinges on whether the chip giant is flexing pricing power or simply handing a supplier's bill to its customers.

AMKR's AI and HPC packaging demand is climbing as data-center programs ramp, advanced packaging expands and Arizona investment rises to $12 billion.

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Asian shares mostly advanced Monday as investors monitor updates ahead of the expected meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week in Washington which could cover trade, artificial intelligence and geopolitics. U.S. futures were higher, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters following talks Sunday with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York ahead of the two leaders’ meeting that the U.S. had “a very successful engagement” with the Chinese side. Samsung Electronics jumped 5%, while memory chipmaker SK Hynix climbed 1%.

The federal government handed IBM $1 billion last week to help the build the first pure play quantum wafer foundry in the US.

On September 8, 2026, Reuters reported that ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) plans to work with major customers. It includes Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM), Nvidia, Intel, Samsung, and SK Hynix to adapt its next-generation “High NA” extreme ultraviolet lithography tools so they can print larger data-center chips. It addresses a current limitation where the […]

TSMC owns more than two-thirds of the chip foundry market.