TSMC and ASML post-earnings stock moves could be a sign of what's to come from chip companies

Cnbc · 🇨🇳 public China · Apr 16, 2026 · 946 words · By Katie Tarasov

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What to know about Semiconductor Supply Chain

Two of the biggest names in chip manufacturing, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.

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What happened

Two of the biggest names in chip manufacturing, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.

Why it matters

and ASML, both reported strong earnings this week as demand for artificial intelligence chips remains sky high.

Common ground

But that didn't seem to matter to Wall Street.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

Follow-up questions

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Shares slid another 3% on Thursday?
How does this story connect Semiconductor Supply Chain with AI Chip Demand over the next few days?

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Claim 1: “Shares slid another 3% on Thursday.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results for ASML's stock movement on Thursday.

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Claim 2: “TSMC is ramping up new advanced chip fabrication plants in Arizona”

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Claim 3: “TSMC... will see a 10% increase in second-quarter revenue.”

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Claim 4: “TSMC shares fell about 3% on Thursday.”

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The provided evidence for this claim contains general information about TSMC's stock index and Arizona expansion, but no specific data regarding a 3% share drop on a specific Thursday.

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web search NEUTRAL — TSMC constitutes about 30 percent of the Taiwan Stock Exchange 's main index. [14][15] Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) was established in 1987 as a joint venture between Taiwan’s gov…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC

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web search NEUTRAL — TSMC is committed to minimizing environmental impact while delivering world-class manufacturing capabilities. TSMC publishes an annual Sustainability Report which details the company’s environmental, …
https://www.tsmc.com/static/abouttsmcaz/index.htm

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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago · TSMC's board of directors on Tuesday approved a capital injection of $20 billion into the company's wholly owned subsidiary TSMC Arizona, which will be used to continue the expansion of t…
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ts…

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Claim 5: “That's up from $40.5 billion capex in 2025.”

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Claim 6: “TSMC said Thursday it expects to spend $52 billion-$56 billion in 2026.”

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Claim 7: “TSMC is ramping two new advanced packaging facilities in Taiwan and preparing to build two in Arizona later this year”

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Claim 8: “smartphone revenue, which fell 11% compared with the previous quarter”

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The provided evidence discusses 3nm revenue share and general HPC trends, but does not explicitly confirm the 11% sequential drop in smartphone revenue.

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web search NEUTRAL — TSMC has a global capacity of about thirteen million 300 mm-equivalent wafers per year as of 2020 and produces chips for customers with process nodes from 2 microns to 3 nanometres.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC

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web search NEUTRAL — In the first quarter of 2024, N3 wafer sales accounted for 9% of the foundry’s revenue, down from 15% in Q4 2023, and up from 6% in Q3 2023. In terms of dollars, TSMC’s 3nm production brought in aroun…
https://allcom.se/2024/04/19/tsmc-posts-q124-results-3nm-rev…

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web search NEUTRAL — TSMC's making the majority of its revenue from high-performance computing is important because it shows that the company successfully adapted with the times, moving from its previously dominant smartp…
https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/10/04/the-motley-fool-di…

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Claim 9: “TSMC reported a 58% increase in first-quarter profits Thursday”

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The claim is directly corroborated by a cross-reference from CNBC and mentioned in the context of record profits in web search results.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Che-Chia Wei (Chinese: 魏哲家; pinyin: Wèi Zhéjiā; born 1953) is a Taiwanese business executive and electrical engineer who is the president, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Taiwan Semicon…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che-Chia_Wei

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (Taiwan Semiconductor or TSMC) is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. Headquartered in Hsinchu Science…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — TSMC Arizona is a semiconductor manufacturing complex in Phoenix, Arizona, United States built by TSMC. Its chip fabrication plants are the first built in the United States and with a total US$ 165 bi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC_Arizona

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Claim 10: “Those advanced chips made up about 74% of revenue.”

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Multiple independent web sources (JustNow and another source) confirm that advanced chips (7nm and below) accounted for approximately 74% of total revenue.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The CHIPS and Science Act is a U.S. federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 9, 2022. The act authorizes roughly $280 billion in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act

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Claim 11: “Sixty-one percent of TSMC's overall revenue in Q1 came from the high-performance computing segment”

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Web search results from Analytics India Magazine explicitly state that 'HPC accounted for 61% of TSMC’s revenue in Q1'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arrow Lake is the codename for Core Ultra Series 2 processors designed by Intel, released on October 24, 2024. It follows on from Meteor Lake which saw Intel move from monolithic silicon to a disaggre…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Lake_(microprocessor)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Radeon HD 7000 series, codenamed "Southern Islands", is a family of GPUs developed by AMD, and manufactured on TSMC's 28 nm process. The primary competitor of Southern Islands was Nvidia's GeForce…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_7000_series

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Claim 12: “ASML dropped as much as 6.5% on Wednesday, though the shares came back to close about 2.5% lower”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results for ASML's stock movement on Wednesday.

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Claim 13: “Gross margins also came in higher than last quarter at 66%”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general company information and does not mention the specific 66% gross margin figure.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Morris Chang Chung-mou (Chinese: 張忠謀; pinyin: Zhāng Zhōngmóu; born July 10, 1931) is a Taiwanese billionaire business executive and electrical engineer. He is the founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manuf…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Chang

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Claim 14: “That segment was up from 55% the previous quarter.”

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Multiple web search results (Parameter and another source) state that the high-performance computing segment accounted for 55% of quarterly revenue.

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Claim 15: “ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet said Wednesday the company could deliver 80 of its so-called low numerical aperture, or NA, EUV machines in 2027”

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Claim 16: “ASML's extreme ultraviolet lithography machines cost upward of $400 million each.”

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Claim 17: “It was the fourth consecutive quarter of record profits for the world's largest chip manufacturer.”

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Web search results from Femzen explicitly state that the net income for the three months ended in March represented a 'fourth consecutive quarter of record profits'.

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web search NEUTRAL — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (Taiwan Semiconductor or TSMC) is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company.In January 2026, reported a 35% i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC

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web search NEUTRAL — Its first-quarter revenue rose 36 percent on-year and 12 percent on-quarter, respectively, to a record Tw$491.1 billion (US$17.6 billion), according to a company statement. It also posted a 45 percent…
https://www.bogotatiempo.co/en/Economy/29526-taiwans-tsmc-re…

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web search NEUTRAL — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, более известная как TSMC (Тайчун, Центральный научный парк Тайваня). Только TSMC может делать 3 нанометра стабильно, массово и с низким браком...
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1026690/

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Claim 18: “Nvidia has snapped up the majority of capacity for TSMC's most advanced type of packaging, called chip on wafer on substrate, or CoWoS.”

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Claim 19: “Intel's packaging customers include Amazon, Cisco and a new commitment from SpaceX and Tesla.”

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Claim 20: “Last quarter, Nvidia's blowout fourth-quarter earnings report was met with a 5% sell-off.”

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