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Taiwan Semiconductor $ 265.5b , Hsinchu , Taiwan

Taiwan Semiconductor is the world ’ s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry , and a pioneer of the “ pure play ” business model for semiconductor foundries that has come to dominate the industry . The model means that it does not design , manufacture or market semiconductors under its own name to avoid competing directly with its customers . Those customers include all the major semiconductor companies , such as AMD , Nvidia , Qualcomm and Apple . NOVEMBER 2020