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Taiwan / US / Korea · Chips & Networking

Leading-Edge Chipmaking (Foundry)

One company produces almost all leading-edge AI logic. N3/N2 capacity is allocated years ahead and every new fab is a multi-year, tens-of-billions bet.

EUV + tools→Wafer starts→Leading-node logic→Packaging
84
Tightness score ⓘ
#6 of 56
▲ Tightening
Supply concentration5
Lead time5
Capex intensity5
Geopolitical exposure5
Pricing power5
Lead time
24–36 mo
Theme 1M
−18.6%
% in uptrend
0%
Metric to watch

TSMC monthly revenue, N2 ramp commentary, and capex guidance revisions.

What would prove us wrong

Weakens if leading-node utilisation falls while packaging and HBM stay loose — logic would no longer bind.

Dependencies
↑ supplier  Lithography Machines (EUV)78↑ supplier  Chip Equipment (Deposition, Etch, Inspection)66↑ supplier  Silicon Wafers & Chemicals48↑ supplier  Specialty & Industrial Gases52 ↓ customer  Chip Packaging (CoWoS)80

Foundry theme performance

Equal-weight · rebased 100 · 1Y
Stocks we track

Who controls this bottleneck

Roles, not recommendations. Delayed prices; local currency.

StockRoleListingLast1D1M3MYTDOff 52w highTrendNext earnings
TSM
Taiwan Semiconductor
 Leading-node foundry and CoWoS packaging chokepoint NYSE
Taiwan		 $405.5 −1.90% −5.7% −4.6% +34.5% −16.5% 2027-01-14
INTC
Intel
 US foundry rebuild with advanced-packaging optionality NASDAQ
US		 $61.20 −2.08% −37.6% −40.3% +65.8% −56.6% 2027-01-28
005930.KS
Samsung Electronics
 HBM, DRAM and foundry across memory and logic KRX
Korea		 ₩208,000 +0.97% −10.3% −8.0% +77.0% −41.6% 2027-01-27
GFS
GlobalFoundries
 Specialty-node foundry incl. silicon photonics NASDAQ
US		 $42.62 −0.54% −12.9% −21.7% +22.5% −52.4% 2026-11-04
UMC
United Microelectronics
 Mature-node foundry and interposer capacity NYSE
Taiwan		 $15.76 −1.99% −26.4% −17.7% +104.0% −42.7% 2027-01-27

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