Sales jump 59.7% year-on-year, surpassing August record after just two months
Demand for cutting-edge 2nm chips seen driving growth; strong momentum expected to continue
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Taiwan's TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, posted a new all-time monthly sales record in October, powered by a booming market for AI semiconductors.
TSMC announced Tuesday (local time) that its October sales reached 586.89 billion New Taiwan dollars, up 59.7 percent from a year earlier and 14.7 percent from the previous month, according to Taiwan's Central News Agency.
The figure surpasses the previous monthly record of 514.81 billion New Taiwan dollars set in August, a mark that stood for just two months.
Industry observers attribute the strong growth to a surge in demand for chips made using TSMC's cutting-edge 2-nanometer process.
Cumulative sales for January through October reached 4.49 trillion New Taiwan dollars, up 43.3 percent from the same period last year.
TSMC had earlier projected fourth-quarter sales of between $52.3 billion and $54.3 billion.
Based on that outlook, analysts expect TSMC's monthly sales in November and December to reach between 538.1 billion and 569.9 billion New Taiwan dollars.
an@heraldcorp.com
