{"id":1003502,"date":"2026-04-17T09:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003502"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:03:50","slug":"ai-demand-drives-chipmaker-tsmcs-net-profit-to-fresh-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/17\/ai-demand-drives-chipmaker-tsmcs-net-profit-to-fresh-record\/","title":{"rendered":"AI demand drives chipmaker TSMC&#8217;s net profit to fresh record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC said Thursday that net profit for January-March leaped to a fresh quarterly record, boosted by the race to develop artificial intelligence technology. <\/p>\n<p>Massive global demand for AI hardware means business is booming for TSMC, the world&#8217;s biggest contract maker of microchips used in everything from Apple phones to Nvidia&#8217;s AI processors. <\/p>\n<p>TSMC said its net profit for the first quarter of 2026 rose a whopping 58.3% from a year ago to NT$572.5 billion ($18 billion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC said Thursday that net profit for January-March leaped to a fresh quarterly record, boosted by the race to develop artificial intelligence technology. Massive global demand for AI hardware means business is booming for TSMC, the world&#8217;s biggest contract maker of microchips used in everything from Apple phones to Nvidia&#8217;s AI processors. TSMC said its net profit for the first quarter of 2026 rose a whopping 58.3% from a year ago to NT$572.5 billion ($18 billion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}