{"id":609559,"date":"2026-08-30T20:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T20:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/609559\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T20:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T20:58:12","slug":"not-nvidia-not-amd-this-semiconductor-giant-will-be-the-ultimate-winner-of-the-artificial-intelligence-ai-hardware-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/609559\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Nvidia. Not AMD. This Semiconductor Giant Will Be the Ultimate Winner of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hardware Race."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Predicting which company will be the ultimate winner in artificial intelligence (AI) isn&#8217;t easy. One may say it will be the AI companies like OpenAI or Anthropic that will be the winners. Others may point to hardware companies like Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) or Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). While I tend to lean toward the latter, there&#8217;s no way to determine whether Nvidia&#8217;s or AMD&#8217;s hardware will end up being the most commonly deployed by AI hyperscalers.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Instead, I think there&#8217;s one pick that will be the ultimate winner, and it stands to benefit regardless of which company has the best AI model and what computing units are used to run the workloads: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM).  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again.\u00a0In 2009, a &#8220;Double Down&#8221; signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia.\u00a0For the first time in years, that same &#8220;Total Conviction&#8221; signal is flashing for a company 1\/100th the size of Nvidia.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/api.fool.com\/infotron\/infotrack\/click?apikey=35527423-a535-4519-a07f-20014582e03e&amp;impression=0b05cd4b-81e9-48e2-a8c1-cddbd2761115&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fa-sa-dd-total-conviction%3Faid%3D11123%26source%3Disaediica0000074%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-dd-4%26ftm_veh%3Dtop_incontent_pitch_feed_yahoo%26ftm_pit%3D19375&amp;utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=bdbe95ea-8838-435c-ab92-0d3d9f238ff6\" data-ylk=\"slk:Continue%20%C2%BB;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Continue \u00bb&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Continue \u00bb<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/6349f31e80e47f9cc667de41f4eeb4e73e5f6cda31984ceeaf9c166386b7af2c\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefit_w960%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp\/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fmotleyfool.com%2F77d51ed40778648ba5dabd1d686be930.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"An inspector looking at a chip.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-1f8hkhu loader\"\/><\/a> Image source: Getty Images.           Taiwan Semiconductor has cornered the logic chip market          <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Taiwan Semiconductor is in a unique place in the AI arms race. Companies like AMD and Nvidia don&#8217;t build any computing units; they just design the products and farm out manufacturing to other companies. These units obviously contain a lot of chips, and Taiwan Semiconductor is the world&#8217;s largest and most advanced semiconductor foundry.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/research\/semiconductor-manufacturers-by-revenue\/?utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=bdbe95ea-8838-435c-ab92-0d3d9f238ff6\" data-ylk=\"slk:According%20to%20research;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;According to research&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">According to research<\/a> by The Motley Fool, Taiwan Semiconductor accounted for about 72% of global foundry revenue at the end of 2025. That&#8217;s a massive chunk of the market, and with several companies making up the remaining portion, there&#8217;s really no other option in the industry outside of Taiwan Semiconductor.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">So, regardless of whether AMD or Nvidia likes to work with TSMC, they&#8217;re forced to because it&#8217;s the only one with the production capacity available to meet the supply demands of these companies. Taiwan Semiconductor has remained a key partner for many companies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Due to Taiwan Semiconductor&#8217;s neutral position, as long as there is increased spending on AI over the next few years, it&#8217;s in the driver&#8217;s seat to capitalize. Furthermore, it sees elevated demand lasting for a while. During TSMC&#8217;s last quarterly conference call, CEO C.C. Wei told investors that he expects elevated chip demand to last through at least 2029 or 2030. That&#8217;s several more years of strong growth, and with TSMC continuously launching new chip technology, it has several built-in price hikes along the way.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Taiwan Semiconductor is an excellent company at the epicenter of the AI build-out. Regardless of the outcome of AI,\u00a0Taiwan Semiconductor will be a winner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/how-to-invest\/stocks\/how-to-invest-in-taiwan-semiconductor-stock\/?utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=bdbe95ea-8838-435c-ab92-0d3d9f238ff6\" data-ylk=\"slk:making%20it%20one%20of%20the%20safest%20stocks%20to%20invest%20in%20this%20sector;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;making it one of the safest stocks to invest in this sector&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">making it one of the safest stocks to invest in this sector<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>         Should you buy stock in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing right now?         <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Before you buy stock in\u00a0Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, consider this:  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The Motley Fool\u00a0Stock Advisor\u00a0analyst team just identified what they believe are the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/api.fool.com\/infotron\/infotrack\/click?apikey=35527423-a535-4519-a07f-20014582e03e&amp;impression=dc2a558c-7871-46db-b6c0-d97090fedbf2&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fe-sa-bbn-bn%3Faid%3D8867%26source%3Disaeditxt0001213%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-bbn-evergreen%26ftm_veh%3Darticle_pitch_feed_yahoo%26ftm_pit%3D19383&amp;utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=bdbe95ea-8838-435c-ab92-0d3d9f238ff6\" data-ylk=\"slk:10%20best%20stocks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;10 best stocks&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">10 best stocks<\/a>\u00a0for investors to buy now\u2026 and\u00a0Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing\u00a0wasn&#8217;t one of them.\u00a0The 10 stocks that made the cut are built for long-term growth and could produce monster returns in the coming years.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Consider when\u00a0Netflix\u00a0made this list on December 17, 2004&#8230; if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation,\u00a0you&#8217;d have $440,710!*\u00a0Or\u00a0when\u00a0Nvidia\u00a0made this list on April 15, 2005&#8230; if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation,\u00a0you&#8217;d have $1,335,252!*  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">That performance is why people listen. 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The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. The Motley Fool has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/legal\/fool-disclosure-policy\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:disclosure%20policy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;disclosure policy&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">disclosure policy<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2026\/08\/30\/not-nvidia-not-amd-this-semiconductor-giant-will\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Not%20Nvidia.%20Not%20AMD.%20This%20Semiconductor%20Giant%20Will%20Be%20the%20Ultimate%20Winner%20of%20the%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20(AI)%20Hardware%20Race.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Not Nvidia. Not AMD. This Semiconductor Giant Will Be the Ultimate Winner of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hardware Race.&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Not Nvidia. Not AMD. This Semiconductor Giant Will Be the Ultimate Winner of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hardware Race.<\/a> was originally published by The Motley Fool  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Predicting which company will be the ultimate winner in artificial intelligence (AI) isn&#8217;t easy. One may say it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[8448,220,3231,218,219,61,60,24803,3752,233,140063,2073,9059,63247,80],"class_list":["post-609559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-advanced-micro-devices","tag-ai","tag-amd","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-motley","tag-motley-fool","tag-nvidia","tag-stock-advisor","tag-taiwan","tag-taiwan-semiconductor","tag-taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}