Sina Technology News Beijing time on the afternoon of January 12, according to reports, TSMC released its financial report for the fourth quarter of 2022 today. TSMC, the world’s largest chip foundry, posted a record fourth-quarter profit despite a sharp slowdown in demand for smartphones, PCs and other consumer electronics.
The financial report shows that TSMC’s net profit in the fourth quarter increased by 78% year-on-year to NT$295.9 billion (approximately US$9.42 billion). Revenue increased by 42.7% year-on-year to NT$625.53 billion.
Throughout 2022, TSMC’s revenue hit a record of NT$2.263 trillion, a year-on-year increase of 42.6%. The profit increased by more than 70% to NT$1.016 trillion, also a record high. Currently, TSMC manufactures chips for almost all of the world’s major chip developers, including Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and MediaTek.
Despite the strong performance in 2022, most market watchers expect TSMC’s revenue to decline quarter-on-quarter in the first quarter of 2023 due to a weaker outlook for the consumer electronics market and seasonally sluggish demand. This also means that since the first quarter of 2020, TSMC will experience a quarterly revenue decline for the first time. In the first quarter of 2020, the new crown epidemic began to affect the world. Then came an unprecedented shortage of chips in industries ranging from cars to appliances.
On average, analysts surveyed by data provider Refinitiv expect TSMC’s first-quarter 2023 revenue to fall more than 14% quarter-on-quarter.
Gokul Hariharan, co-head of Asia-Pacific technology, media and telecom research at JPMorgan, said in a recent client note: “We expect TSMC, and the overall chip market, to see a sharp decline in the first half of 2023. …but at the same time we also see strong secular growth over the next few years, driven by HPC. And TSMC’s 3nm foundry business looks pretty strong in 2024 and beyond.”
JPMorgan Chase predicts that TSMC’s revenue in 2023 may be flat compared to last year due to a slowing market, with a worst-case scenario of a 6% decline. According to research firm Counterpoint Research, the revenue of the entire semiconductor industry may drop by 5% to 7% in 2023.
Mark Li, a semiconductor analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, an investment research firm, said that the semiconductor market will experience a significant decline in the first quarter of 2023 due to a reduction in chip orders for Android phones, iPhones, PCs and other products, but this decline will is temporary.
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- 2023-01-12 TSMC’s net profit in the fourth quarter exceeded US$9.4 billion, a year-on-year increase of 78%
- 2023-01-10 TSMC’s revenue in December increased by 24% year-on-year
- 2022-10-13 TSMC’s net profit in the third quarter was NT$280.9 billion, with a gross profit margin of 60.4%
- 2022-04-14 TSMC’s net profit in the first quarter was NT$202.7 billion
- 2022-01-13 TSMC’s net profit in the fourth quarter is US$6 billion
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