Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing was the first company in the semiconductor industry, where vertically integrated manufacturers had been the norm, to establish a pure-play foundry, and operates wafer manufacturing facilities around the world. It is said to have begun mass production using its 2nm process in the fourth quarter of 2025.
In the semiconductor industry, where vertically integrated manufacturers had been the norm, the company was the first to establish a pure-play foundry business.
Wafer manufacturing accounts for approximately 86% of revenue, with the remainder coming from packaging, testing and other services. The company has 11 factories in Taiwan, 2 in the United States and 2 in mainland China. In 2024, it established a factory in Kumamoto, Japan, while its factory in Dresden, Germany, is under construction.
It supplies 12,682 products to AMD, Broadcom, Intel, MediaTek, NVIDIA, NXP, Qualcomm and others. In 2019, it became the first in the industry to commercialize a 7nm process using extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment. It subsequently began mass production of 5nm in 2020, 3nm in 2022 and 2nm in the fourth quarter of 2025.