{"id":587430,"date":"2026-04-16T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/587430\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:02:10","slug":"tsmc-q1-profit-jumps-58-to-record-beats-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/587430\/","title":{"rendered":"TSMC Q1 profit jumps 58% to record, beats expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">TAIPEI, April 16 (Reuters) &#8211; TSMC, the world&#8217;s largest \u200ccontract chipmaker, posted \u200ca 58% jump in first-quarter \u200bnet profit on Thursday, beating market forecasts and hitting a record, \u200cas \u2060it benefits from huge appetite globally for \u2060its <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;artificial intelligence&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> processors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing \u200bCo, whose \u200bcustomers \u200binclude <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/NVDA\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nvidia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Nvidia&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia<\/a> and \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/apple\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Apple&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>, saw January-March net profit rise to T$572.5 billion ($18.2 billion).<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The profit handily beat a T$543.3 \u200cbillion LSEG \u200bSmartEstimate, which \u200bis \u200bweighted toward forecasts \u200cfrom analysts who are \u200bmore \u200bconsistently accurate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">($1 = 31.5180 Taiwan dollars)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Wen-Yee \u200bLee, \u200cFaith Hung and \u200bBen Blanchard; Editing by \u200bEdwina Gibbs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAIPEI, April 16 (Reuters) &#8211; TSMC, the world&#8217;s largest \u200ccontract chipmaker, posted \u200ca 58% jump in first-quarter \u200bnet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,201656,75085,41688],"class_list":{"0":"post-587430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-market-forecasts","10":"tag-net-profit","11":"tag-taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}