Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world's second-most valuable semiconductor company, the world's largest dedicated independent ("pure-play") semiconductor foundry, and its country's largest company, with headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Its majority is owned by foreign investors, and the central government of Taiwan is the largest shareholder. In 2023, the company was ranked 44th in the Forbes Global 2000.
One of TSMC's factories in Taichung's Central Taiwan Science Park
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, which uses the GP104 die manufactured by TSMC on its 16 nm node
Fab 21 under construction in Phoenix, Arizona in November 2023
Semiconductor fabrication plant
In the microelectronics industry, a semiconductor fabrication plant is a factory for semiconductor device fabrication.
GlobalFoundries Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany. The large rectangles house large cleanrooms.