Key facts
- Kevin Zhang, a TSMC senior vice president and deputy co-chief operating officer, spoke at the Nikkei Forum in Tokyo.
- Zhang said companies want to get their hands on any AI compute capability they can, per Nikkei.
- TSMC is the world's largest contract chipmaker, Nikkei said.
- Nikkei gave no figure for the demand Zhang described.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is seeing what a senior executive called "insatiable" demand for the chips it makes to power artificial intelligence, Nikkei reported on November 11.
Kevin Zhang, a TSMC senior vice president and deputy co-chief operating officer, spoke at the Nikkei Forum Global Management Dialogue 2026 in Tokyo on November 11. Companies want to get their hands on any AI compute capability they can, Zhang said, according to Nikkei.
TSMC is the world's largest contract chipmaker, making chips designed by other companies rather than selling its own branded products. Nikkei reported the remarks without giving a figure for the demand Zhang described.