TSMC News Latest TSMC news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is the world's largest dedicated independent (pure-play) semiconductor foundry. Founded in 1987 and based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, TSMC manufactures advanced logic chips for many of the world's leading technology co...
Etched Doubles To $10.3B Valuation With $300M Series C For AI Inference Chips — Jul 24, 2026 — Etched, the Harvard-dropout inference-chip startup, closed a $300M Series C led by Sequoia at a $10.3B valuation, with SK Hynix, Andreessen Horowitz,...Fortinet Taps Intel Foundry For SP6 Firewall Chip, First Named Intel 4 Customer — Jul 24, 2026 — Intel Foundry named its first publicly committed external Intel 4 customer as Fortinet's next-generation SP6 firewall ASIC heads to Fab 34 in Leixlip...AMD Opens Advancing AI 2026 With EPYC Venice, MI455X And Helios Rack — Jul 23, 2026 — AMD kicked off Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco with EPYC Venice — the first x86 server CPU on TSMC's 2nm N2 process — plus the Instinct MI455X GPU...TSMC Plans 5–10% Chipmaking Price Hikes For 2027, HPC Premiums Up To 25% — Jul 21, 2026 — TSMC finalized 5-10% base price hikes across advanced and mature nodes for 2027 and will charge Nvidia and other HPC customers up to 15% extra on out-...TSMC Adds $100B To Arizona Bet, Pushing US Investment To $265B For 10 Fabs — Jul 18, 2026 — TSMC announced on July 16 an additional $100 billion investment to build four more 2-nanometer or more advanced fabs in Arizona, lifting its total US...ASML Raises 2026 Sales Guide To €45B As AI Chip Demand Overwhelms Capacity — Jul 16, 2026 — ASML raised its 2026 sales outlook to €43-45B after a €9.3B Q2 beat, and pledged to add 30% more EUV and DUV capacity as AI-chip customers like TSMC,...TSMC Q2 Profit Soars 77% To Record As AI Chips Push HPC To 66% Of Revenue — Jul 16, 2026 — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company posted record Q2 2026 revenue of US$40.2 billion and net profit of NT$706.56 billion, up 77.4% year-on-year...Samsung's Taylor Fab Nears Tesla AI5 Production On 2nm Gate-All-Around — Jul 14, 2026 — A Samsung foundry employee's LinkedIn post says the Tesla-Samsung version of the AI5 chip has completed tape-out, moving Samsung's long-delayed Taylor...Intel Commits €5 Billion to Expand Leixlip Fab as Xeon 6 Demand Surges — Jul 14, 2026 — Intel announced a €5 billion ($5.7 billion) capital expansion at its Leixlip campus in Ireland to scale production of Xeon 6 and next-generation Xeon...TSMC Sets All-Time June Revenue Record With 68% Surge on AI Chip Demand — Jul 14, 2026 — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company reported NT398.27 billion in June revenue, up 67.9% year-on-year, as AI accelerator demand from NVIDIA, App...Meta's Fourth-Gen MTIA AI Chip Enters TSMC Production in September — Jul 13, 2026 — Meta will begin manufacturing its fourth-generation MTIA AI accelerator at TSMC in September, per an internal memo, as it doubles compute to 14 GW by...NVIDIA and TSMC Push AI Onto Wafer Fab Floors for Defect Hunt — Jul 6, 2026 — TSMC is running NVIDIA's Metropolis and TAO Toolkit on its wafer lines to catch nanometer-scale defects and is testing Omniverse-based FabTwin digital...Meta Picks Samsung Foundry's 2nm to Build MTIA in $6.5B Deal — Jul 6, 2026 — Meta will fabricate its next-generation MTIA AI accelerator at Samsung Foundry on 2nm in an order worth over $6.5 billion, breaking a two-generation T...VSORA Raises Ardian-Led Round to Scale Jotunn8 AI Inference Chip — Jul 4, 2026 — French fabless chip designer VSORA has raised a new funding round led by Ardian Semiconductor to commercialize Jotunn8, its 288GB-HBM AI inference pro...d-Matrix Puts Corsair AI Inference Chip Into Full Production — Jun 27, 2026 — d-Matrix has moved its Corsair AI inference platform into full production, ramping volume shipments as its memory-centric chiplet design targets the G...Sony and TSMC Partner on Next-Gen AI Image Sensors — Jun 23, 2026 — Sony and TSMC have signed an MoU to co-develop next-generation AI image sensors aimed at robotics and autonomous systems.Trump Says Apple Will Build Chips With Intel in US — Jun 21, 2026 — Trump says Apple has agreed to make chips with Intel in the US, lifting Intel stock 10.5%. Neither company has formally confirmed the foundry deal.Signaloid Tapes Out C0-ASIC Chip For Energy-Efficient Physical AI — Jun 17, 2026 — UK startup Signaloid has completed tapeout of its C0-ASIC accelerator for robotics and physical AI, with first engineering samples due in Q3 2026 and...Samsung Foundry Set To Win Google's 10th-Gen TPU Icefish I/O Die — Jun 14, 2026 — Google is in talks to outsource the memory I/O die of its 10th-generation Icefish TPU to Samsung Foundry's 2-nanometer process, ending sole reliance o...Google Orders 3 Million Intel-Made TPUs In Major Foundry Win Over TSMC — Jun 12, 2026 — Google has reportedly placed an order with Intel Foundry to manufacture more than 3 million TPUs in 2028, the largest external AI chip win in Intel Fo...