Taipei [Taiwan], February 11 (ANI): Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) permitted a USD 44.96 billion capital funds on Tuesday to broaden its superior and speciality know-how capability amid a world surge in demand for synthetic intelligence.
The choice, made in the course of the firm’s first-ever board assembly in Kumamoto, Japan, allocates funds to improve superior packaging, assemble new fabrication vegetation, and set up important facility methods.
As per a report by Focus Taiwan, the huge appropriation ensures the chipmaker can fulfil its long-term know-how roadmap. The firm said that the funding targets the set up and improve of superior, mature, and speciality know-how capability to fulfill rising world necessities.
In a gathering with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi final week, TSMC CEO CC Wei mentioned that the corporate plans to improve its second facility in Kumamoto to provide 3-nanometer chips to fulfill surging world demand for AI purposes.
The board additional permitted a record-breaking distribution of worker enterprise efficiency bonuses and profit-sharing totalling roughly NT$206.15 billion (approx. USD 6.53 billion) for 2025. This determine represents a 46.62 per cent enhance in comparison with the NT$140.5 billion (approx. USD 4.45 billion) permitted for the earlier 12 months.
The firm famous in a press release that the payout ‘setting a document excessive for the second consecutive 12 months’ displays how the agency capitalises on the worldwide AI growth. Half of this whole was distributed quarterly all through 2025, whereas the remaining profit-sharing portion is scheduled for distribution in July 2026.
With a headcount of roughly 78,000 workers in Taiwan, the common payout per particular person is anticipated to exceed NT$2.64 million (approx. USD 83,580). This is a major rise from the NT$2 million (USD 63,320) recorded in 2024, signalling heightened profitability for the world’s largest contract chipmaker.
‘The board additionally permitted its 2025 enterprise report and monetary statements, which confirmed consolidation income for the 12 months totalled NT$3.81 trillion, with internet earnings reaching NT$1.72 trillion and diluted earnings per share of NT$66.25,’ the Focus Taiwan report mentioned.
In addition to capital investments and worker compensation, the board permitted a money dividend of NT$6.0 (approx. USD 0.19) per share for the fourth quarter of 2025. Shareholders are set to see the ex-dividend date on June 11, with funds scheduled for July 9. (ANI)