{"id":1021589,"date":"2026-07-17T07:41:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021589"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:16:16","slug":"tsmc-to-invest-another-100-billion-in-us-as-q2-profit-blows-past-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/17\/tsmc-to-invest-another-100-billion-in-us-as-q2-profit-blows-past-forecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"TSMC to invest another $100 billion in US as Q2 profit blows past forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: TSMC, the world&#8217;s main producer of advanced AI chips and a major \u200csupplier to Nvidia, \u2060pledged on \u2060Thursday to invest a further $100 billion in the U.S. state of Arizona and said it was still seeing robust AI-driven demand for chips. <\/p>\n<p>Riding the AI boom, TSMC also raised its forecast for capital spending by up to 14% for this year. <\/p>\n<p>The upbeat outlook came after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, a bellwether for AI chip demand, posted a 77% jump in second-quarter profit to a record high of T$706.6 billion ($22 billion), beating a market forecast of T$632.6 billion and marking its ninth straight quarter of \u2060double-digit percentage growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: TSMC, the world&#8217;s main producer of advanced AI chips and a major \u200csupplier to Nvidia, \u2060pledged on \u2060Thursday to invest a further $100 billion in the U.S. state of Arizona and said it was still seeing robust AI-driven demand for chips. Riding the AI boom, TSMC also raised its forecast for capital spending by up to 14% for this year. The upbeat outlook came after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, a bellwether for AI chip demand, posted a 77% jump in second-quarter profit to a record high of T$706.6 billion ($22 billion), beating a market forecast of T$632.6 billion and [&hellip;]<\/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-1021589","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\/1021589","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=1021589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021608,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021589\/revisions\/1021608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}