Taiwan chip stocks climb after Nvidia announces $150 billion spending plans

Cnbc · 🇺🇸 public United States · May 27, 2026 · 482 words · By Evelyn Cheng

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Nvidia is expanding heavily in Taiwan with a new campus and a tenfold increase in annual spending, CEO Jensen Huang announced Wednesday, as the chipmaker plans for artificial intelligence-powered growth.

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Taiwan's Taiex stock index climbed 1.7% to a record close on Wednesday.

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Also helping gains was news that South Korea's SK Hynix and U.S.-based Micron became the latest chip-related companies to reach $1 trillion in market value.

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Claim 1: “Shares of Taiwan chip manufacturing giant TSMC closed 1.3% higher on Wednesday, while MediaTek gained 8.8% and Delta Electronics rose by 7.2%.”

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Two independent web search results provide the exact percentage increases for TSMC (1.3%), MediaTek (8.8%), and Delta Electronics (7.2%) on Wednesday.

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web search NEUTRAL — 6 days ago ... ” Shares of Taiwan chip manufacturing giant TSMC closed 1.3% higher on Wednesday, while MediaTek gained 8.8% and Delta Electronics rose by 7.2%.
https://www.facebook.com/Taiwantrade.ILoveMIT/posts/nvidia-b…

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web search NEUTRAL — May 26, 2026 ... ... MediaTek, and Delta Electronics seeing stock increases of 1.3 ... Stock Price Increase: TSMC shares rose 1.6% in Wednesday's premarket ...
https://intellectia.ai/news/stock/taiwan-prosecutors-crack-d…

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 14, 2026 ... ” Shares of Taiwan chip manufacturing giant TSMC closed 1.3% higher on Wednesday, while MediaTek gained 8.8% and Delta Electronics rose by 7.2%.
https://www.facebook.com/ftvformosanews/posts/taiwan-shares-…

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Claim 2: “Revenue from Taiwan surged by more than 50% from a year ago in the latest quarter, while revenue from mainland China and Hong Kong halved.”

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Claim 3: “Now we're spending $100 [billion], going to $150 billion in Taiwan each year”

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Multiple independent sources (Reuters, Kingy AI, and others) quote Jensen Huang stating spending is currently $100 billion and going to $150 billion.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang (Chinese: 黃仁勳; pinyin: Huáng Rénxūn; Tâi-lô: N̂g Jîn-hun; born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwanese and American business executive and electrical engineer who is the founder, pre…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nvidia Corporation ( en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company develops graphics processing units (GPUs), systems on chips (SoC…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) is a global artificial intelligence (AI) conference for developers that brings together developers, engineers, researchers, inventors, and IT professionals. Topi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_GTC

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Claim 4: “that's up from $10 billion to $15 billion annually just four or five years ago.”

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Multiple sources confirm the historical spending figure of $10 billion to $15 billion annually four to five years ago.

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Claim 5: “That would be four times the company's existing headcount in Taiwan.”

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Web search results explicitly state that the 4,000-employee capacity effectively quadruples (four times) Nvidia's current headcount in Taiwan.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nasdaq-100 (NDX) is a stock market index made up of equity securities issued by 100 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. It is a modified capitalization-weighted…
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Claim 6: “Chamath Palihapitiya also said Taiwan could become less important to global semiconductor development in 18 months due to advances by U.S.-based Neuralink.”

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Claim 7: “predicts $91 billion in revenue for the current quarter.”

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Claim 8: “The company plans to use its new "LogicFolding" engineering in a smartphone chip this fall, and in its Ascend chips that power data centers "by around 2030."”

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Claim 9: “By the end of the year, Nvidia will begin building a new office complex called Constellation, which can accommodate 4,000 employees in northern Taipei when it opens in 2030”

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Web search results confirm the announcement of the 'Nvidia Constellation' campus in Taiwan designed for 4,000 employees.

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Claim 10: “Nvidia designs chips while TSMC manufactures them.”

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Cross-reference from EuroNews explicitly confirms TSMC manufactures Nvidia's chip designs.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — TSMC, the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturing company in Taiwan, has been building Nvidia’s new chip designs since 1998.
https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/05/14/these-are-tech-tita…

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Claim 11: “Huawei announced Monday morning that it had developed a new approach to producing advanced semiconductors.”

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Claim 12: “Nvidia is expected to surpass Apple this year as TSMC's largest customer.”

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Claim 13: “Nvidia is expanding heavily in Taiwan with a new campus and a tenfold increase in annual spending”

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Multiple web search results confirm Nvidia is increasing spending in Taiwan (from $10-15B to $100-150B) and building a new campus (Constellation).

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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia ... Nvidia Corporation[a] (/ ɛnˈvɪdiə / en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

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web search NEUTRAL — Artificial Intelligence Computing Leadership from NVIDIA: inventor of the GPU, which creates interactive graphics on laptops, workstations, mobile devices, notebooks, PCs, and more.
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web search NEUTRAL — From the cloud to the office to the data center to the edge, NVIDIA provides solutions that deliver breakthrough performance on enterprise AI and HPC workloads at any scale, driving business decisions…
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/

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Claim 14: “Taiwan's Taiex stock index climbed 1.7% to a record close on Wednesday.”

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Web search results explicitly state that Taiwan shares soared to close at a record-high on Wednesday, with specific mention of the index performance.

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Claim 15: “The company has announced plans to invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure in the U.S. with local manufacturers over four years”

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Claim 16: “Shares of leading mainland China chip players including SMIC tumbled on Wednesday, with Cambricon falling 5% and Hygon down 7%.”

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Claim 17: “South Korea's SK Hynix and U.S.-based Micron became the latest chip-related companies to reach $1 trillion in market value.”

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Confirmed by a cross-reference from CNBC and a Bloomberg report via YouTube stating both SK Hynix and Micron reached $1 trillion market value.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a computer memory interface for 3D-stacked synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM), initially developed by Samsung, AMD and SK Hynix. It is often used in conjun…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Micron Technology, Inc. is an American multinational semiconductor company that manufactures computer memory and computer data storage products, including dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), flash me…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SK Hynix Inc. (Korean: 에스케이하이닉스 주식회사), stylized SK hynix, is a South Korean semiconductor company that manufactures dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips and flash memory chips. SK Hynix is one of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK_Hynix

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Claim 18: “The company reported a record $81.6 billion in revenue in the quarter ended April 26”

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Claim 19: “The three stocks — all semiconductor industry giants — are the largest companies by market capitalization on the Taiex index.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm if these three specific companies are the top three largest by market cap on the Taiex index.

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