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Geopolitics· May 05, 2026 at 05:31 PM
Everyone’s Talking About TSMC’s AI Boom. Smart Money Is Watching UMC Instead
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Onur Erkan YıldızFounder, Financial Engineer · CMB-licensed
Higher education in Financial Engineering and Money & Capital Markets. SPK (Turkey CMB) licence. 16 years across institutional markets, research, and quant-driven analytics.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE:TSM) is the headline name in every AI portfolio chatroom, and after a 143% one-year run that carried the world’s most valuable chipmaker to a $2.1 trillion market cap, the reasons are obvious. But here’s what you should actually be watching. The Crowded Trade Is Already Priced TSMC delivered $35.90 billion in ... Everyone’s Talking About TSMC’s AI Boom. Smart Money Is Watching UMC Instead
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