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You and I have talked about infrastructure so much, but I almost consider names like TSMC and ASML as being kind of soft data sets rather than kind of hard data sets. ASML gave us one signal and then TSMC gave us another. As somebody that looks at their exposure to this air supply chain.What did you make of it. Well, I think you really have to go up to kind of a higher order of capital expenditures, which is impacting so many different semiconductor stocks. If you look at the top four builders of infrastruc ...

Check out Taiwan semi shares up 4% session highs after raising their 2025 revenue forecast. The signal big tech is still pouring money into chips and data centers. Dear Jabosa breaks down why and dearra yesterday.Okay, riddle me this. ASML makes the tools that make advanced semiconductors that TSMC fab fabricates or what what they they have problems. The stocks are down.They maybe it's tariffs, maybe it's not. Then today, TSMC everything is fine. How can both of these things be true at the same time.Right. ...

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Okay, Rafael is asking about Taiwan semiconductor. Uh, yeah, it's a great company. Taiwan Taiwan semiconductor TSM.Okay. It's a it's a great company. It's very unique and it it's it's number one in in its the field it's playing.Um I'm sure it will uh it will it will worth more if it's a US company but still the market cap is 1.2% trillion. Imagine a Taiwan company and Taiwan has only how many people. I I I don't know actually maybe 20 million or something.It has 1.2% two trillion in market cap and only behi ...

Signage for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) at it's fabrication plant in Phoenix, Arizona, US, on Monday, March 3, 2025.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company CEO C.C. Wei on Thursday said the company is seeing "strong interest" from its leading U.S. customers and is working to speed up its volume production schedule by several quarters.TSMC is the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, and the company has pledged to invest a total of $165 billion in advanced semiconductor manufac ...

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Market Performance - US stock indices experienced slight gains, with the Dow Jones up 0.48%, Nasdaq up 0.33%, and S&P 500 up 0.27% as of the report [1] - Notable individual stock performances include TSMC rising over 2% due to second-quarter net profits exceeding market expectations and reaching a historical high, and PepsiCo increasing over 5% with second-quarter revenue of $22.726 billion, also surpassing market expectations [1] - Nvidia and Microsoft both saw approximately 1% increases, achieving market capitalizations of $4.2 trillion and $3.8 trillion, respectively [1] Chinese Stocks - Chinese stocks showed mixed performance, with Waterdrop rising over 28%, NIO up over 6%, and several others including Douyu, Zhihu, Kingsoft Cloud, and iQIYI increasing over 2% [1] - Conversely, NetEase Youdao, Xiaomi Group (ADR), and Gaotu experienced declines of over 1% and 2% [1] Company News - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sold 225,000 shares of Nvidia stock for approximately $38 million, as part of a pre-set trading plan allowing for the sale of up to 6 million shares [6] - Tesla officially announced the Model Y L, a six-seat luxury SUV, with an estimated price of around 400,000 yuan [7]

Semiconductor Industry - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) reported an unbelievably good number overnight, driven by high-performance computing [1] - The strong performance of TSMC is attributed to Nvidia [1] - The industry anticipates that TSMC's performance could also positively impact AMD, which has great momentum [2] Company Performance & Strategy - TSMC issued a warning on Q3 margin, but the company tends to underpromise and overdeliver [1] - Disney is celebrating its 70th anniversary [3] - Higher targets have been set for Disney [3]