Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) yesterday reported consolidated sales of NT$263.71 billion (US$9.02 billion) for last month, its second-lowest monthly result this year.
The world’s largest contract chipmaker said in a statement that its revenue last month only fared better than the NT$260.01 billion posted in February.
Last month’s figure rose 26.9 percent from a year earlier, but slumped 17.7 percent from May, the company said.
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However, second-quarter revenue reached NT$933.8 billion, a record high for a single quarter, company data showed.
The figure represented growth of 11.26 percent from the first quarter and 38.6 percent from a year earlier.
Previously, TSMC said that high demand for its advanced 3-nanometer and 5-nanometer processes would be the main drivers of growth in the second quarter amid surging interest in artificial intelligence applications.
In the first half of this year, revenue totaled NT$1.77 trillion, up 40 percent from a year earlier, TSMC said.
During an annual shareholders’ meeting last month, TSMC chairman and CEO C.C. Wei (魏哲家) said that despite the risks and uncertainties created by US tariff threats, the company’s clients have not made any changes to their orders, leading TSMC to maintain its guidance of revenue growth of 24 to 26 percent in US dollar terms for this year.
The company is scheduled to report its second-quarter earnings on Thursday next week, as well as its outlook for the third quarter and the full year.
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