This Is the Most Important AI Company You've Never Heard Of

By Travis Hoium – Dec 9, 2023 at 6:45AM

NYSE: TSM

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

Market Cap

$717B

Today's Change

(1.26%) $1.72

Current Price

$138.30

Price as of April 26, 2024, 4:00 p.m. ET

Almost every AI chip today is made by one company.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the talk of the market, and a handful of stocks, like Nvidia (NVDA 6.18%) and Microsoft (MSFT 1.82%), have jumped on the year's AI developments. But there's one company that's more critical to AI than you might think.

In this video, Travis Hoium covers Taiwan Semiconductor's (TSM 1.26%) role in the industry and shows why it's one of the safer ways to play AI development today.

*Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of Dec. 6, 2023. The video was published on Dec. 8, 2023.

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