Commerce Dept finalises subsidy for its plant in Arizona; deals with Samsung, Intel and Micron to follow before Trump returns to White House

The world's top chipmaker faces limits on what chips it can make in the US at a time when the incoming Trump Administration could put increasing production-related demands on it

The move, which will have far-reaching consequences for China’s semiconductor supply chains and tech giants, came after US officials visited Taiwan last week

Chipmaker suspends deals with firm seen buying chips on behalf of Huawei after it was told the tech giant's Ascend 910B had a TSMC chip in its AI accelerator

TSMC was a key supplier for China's Huawei until 2020 when Washington introduced new rules that barred the firm from continuing to do so

TSMC's latest update delights investors and spurs a rally in chip stocks before the start of trading in the US

Top executives from the Taiwanese tech giant were said to be discussing building a factory on a par with some of its biggest home sites

Chinese tech firms want to stockpile TSMC chips and are offering a big mark-up because of "uncertainties arising from the upcoming US presidential election and its impact on US-China relations"

TSMC's shares had been on a roll until US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Taiwan of stealing American chip business and asked the island to 'pay for its defence'

Shares of TSMC fell on Wednesday after remarks by US presidential candidate Donald Trump that Taiwan should pay the US for its defence

TSMC, which is the world's largest contract chipmaker, has been one of the top beneficiaries of soaring demand for AI-capable chips

TSMC's new chairman has hailed hailed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's $7-trillion plan to create new fabrication plants for artificial intelligence as "too aggressive for me to believe"