TSMC’s fourth-quarter income handily beats market forecast on AI demand

TAIPEI (Reuters) – TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, reported on Friday fourth-quarter income that simply beat market forecasts and hit its personal expectations because it reaped the advantage of synthetic intelligence demand.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, whose prospects embrace Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), has been on the forefront of the march in direction of AI that has helped it climate the really fizzling out of pandemic-led demand of chips utilized in shopper electronics like tablets.

Income within the October-December interval of 2024 got here in at T$868.42 billion ($26.36 billion), in keeping with Reuters calculations, in contrast with an LSEG SmartEstimate of T$853.57 billion ($25.90 billion) drawn from 23 analysts.

That represents development of 34.4% year-on-year, and compares with income of $19.62 billion within the year-ago interval.

It isn’t a direct comparability as TSMC offers month-to-month income knowledge solely in Taiwan {dollars}, however provides quarterly income figures and its outlook on its quarterly earnings calls each in U.S. {dollars}.

On its most up-to-date earnings name in October, TSMC forecast fourth-quarter income in a variety of between $26.1 billion to $26.9 billion.

For December alone, TSMC reported income jumped 57.8% year-on-year to T$278.16 billion.

The corporate didn’t present particulars in its temporary income assertion.

Different Taiwan corporations have additionally reported sturdy fourth-quarter income as a result of AI growth. On Sunday, Foxconn (SS:601138), the world’s largest contract electronics maker and which makes AI servers for Nvidia, beat expectations to submit its highest-ever income for the ultimate three months of 2024.

TSMC will report full fourth-quarter earnings on Jan. 16, when it is going to replace its outlook for the present quarter and full 12 months.

The corporate’s Taipei listed inventory leapt 81% final 12 months, in contrast with a 28.5% achieve for the broader market.

It closed flat on Friday forward of the discharge of the income numbers. The benchmark index ended down 0.3%.

($1 = 32.8850 Taiwan {dollars})