Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited Q3 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Financial Highlights (Q3 2025)

  • Revenue reached USD 33.1 billion, up 10.1% sequentially and slightly above guidance. Growth was driven by strong leading-edge process demand.
  • Gross margin improved to 59.5%, up 0.9 percentage points from Q2 2025 due to cost improvements and better capacity utilization, partially offset by FX impact and overseas fab dilution.
  • Operating margin rose to 50.6% (up 1 percentage point quarter‑over‑quarter).
  • EPS was TWD 17.44, an increase of 39% year-over-year.
  • ROE reached 37.8%.

Technology and Platform Mix

  • 3nm contributed 23% of wafer revenue; 5nm and 7nm contributed 37% and 14%, respectively.
  • Advanced technologies (7nm and below) accounted for 74% of wafer revenue.
  • Revenue by Platform (QoQ):
    • HPC: flat, 57% of revenue.
    • Smartphone: up 19%, 30% of revenue.
    • IoT: up 20%, 5% of revenue.
    • Automotive: up 18%, 5% of revenue.
    • DCE: down 20%, 1% of revenue.

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow

  • Cash and marketable securities: TWD 2.8 trillion (USD 90 billion).
  • Inventory days fell to 74 days (down 2 days) driven by strong N3 and N5 shipments.
  • Cash from operations: TWD 427 billion; CapEx: TWD 287 billion (USD 9.7 billion).
  • Cash balance increased to TWD 2.5 trillion.

Q4 2025 Guidance

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Jeff Su: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to TSMC's Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. This is Jeff Su, TSMC's Director of Investor Relations and your host for today. TSMC is hosting our earnings conference call via live audio webcast through the company's website at www.tsmc.com, where you can also download the earnings release materials. If you are joining us through the conference call, your dial-in lines are in listen-only mode. The format for today's event will be as follows: first, TSMC's Senior Vice President and CFO, Mr. Wendell Huang, will summarize our operations in the third quarter 2025, followed by our guidance for the fourth quarter 2025. Afterwards, Mr. Huang and TSMC's Chairman and CEO, Dr. C.C. Wei, will jointly provide the company's key messages. Then we will open the line for Q&A. As usual, I would like to remind everybody that today's discussions may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to significant risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Please refer to the safe harbor notice that appears in our press release. And now I would like to turn the call over to TSMC's CFO, Mr. Wendell Huang, for the summary of operations and the current quarter guidance. Jen-Chau Huang: Thank you, Jeff. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. My presentation will start with financial highlights for the third quarter 2025. After that, I

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