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Although Taiwan has been a self-governing democracy since its separation from the mainland following a civil war in 1949, China claims the island is a part of ...

The People's Liberation Army “drills are a solemn warning against Taipei's increased provocation, which damaged peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait,” Ma ...

“Democratic Progressive Party authorities have recently intensified military collusion with the US,” he added, referring to the ruling party of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen. The People’s Liberation Army “drills are a solemn warning against Taipei’s increased provocation, which damaged peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait,” Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, said Wednesday at a briefing in Beijing. China has said the rising number of warplanes it sends toward Taiwan is due to the island’s “military collusion” with the U.S., shedding light on its motives for the threatening activity.

In December, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, one of the world's largest chipmakers, said it had increased its planned investment in Arizona to $40 billion ...

Today, GlobalWafers—the larger of the two companies—has a stock market capitalization of $6.7 billion (versus Sino-American’s $3 billion) and manufacturing operations in Asia, the U.S. “It's a strong relationship in trade and investment, in technology and strategic partnering, and in the fundamental strengths that Taiwan offers in terms of economic freedom, the rule of law and vibrant democracy," he said. Though not final, “it's very likely” Sino-American will invest in the solar energy equipment in the U.S., either in its own solar module facility or in a joint venture with a partner with a facility and its own distribution, Hsu said. History](https://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2022/12/06/tsmc-will-triple-arizona-investment-to-40-billion-among-largest-foreign-outlays-in-us-history/?sh=c39909b1ec84) [Taiwan Electronics Billionaire Makes Second Overseas Acquisition In A Month](https://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2022/10/31/taiwan-electronics-billionaire-makes-second-sensor-acquisition-in-a-month/?sh=c12384f6e901) GlobalWafers was spun off from Sino-American in 2011 with then-rising star Hsu as CEO in 2011; Sino-American, which still owns 51% of GlobalWafers, kept the solar business. Spending on solar will also get a lift from continued improvements in the performance of solar technology, such as bigger cells that improve efficiency. CHIPS and Science Act approved by Congress last year, an attraction for Sino-American in the U.S. “We will be more aggressive this year to promote the business there,” she said. “We cannot afford to miss the market.” solar market will be booming,” said the 61-year-old member of two recent Forbes lists for Asia – In December, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, one of the world’s largest chipmakers, said it had increased its planned investment in Arizona to $40 billion from an earlier announced $12 billion. This year, GlobalWafers’ parent company, Sino-American Silicon Products, is looking to invest in another U.S.

Taipei, Jan. 11 (CNA) An ex-United States national security advisor on Wednesday called for the creation of a new international pandemic-response coalition ...

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Most countries refrain from selling arms to Taiwan lest they anger China provoking it to strike trade in retaliation.

Taiwan’s arsenal mostly comprises weapons either made domestically or by the United States, though France has previously sold fighter jets and warships to Taiwan, while the Netherlands sold Taiwan two submarines in the 1980s. Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, the head of Germany's parliamentary defence committee and a member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's junior coalition partner Free Democrats (FDP), told a news conference in Taipei that Germany had been generous in sending weapons to Ukraine. Germany will not provide Taiwan with weapons and has not been asked to do so, as the situation is different from Ukraine's, a senior German lawmaker said on Wednesday while on a trip to Taipei.

GERMAN LAWMAKERS: A member of the group said she was 'happy to be here and we feel very comfortable, even if the ambassador of China was not happy about it'.

The National Human Rights Commission is asking government agencies to assist a teenager and her younger brother in obtaining citizenship, after finding out they are undocumented after being born to a Vietnamese mother with no legal status in the country. “It takes 15 minutes for our Mirage fighter jets to take off from the Hsinchu Air Base to reach the area of Chinese intrusion,” Chu said. “We urgently need to bolster air defense capacity for northern Taiwan, so the Taoyuan Air Base The second phase would require that the items not be provided for free, requiring guests to purchase them if needed. In the first phase, hoteliers would be asked not to provide disposable items such as toothbrushes, razors, and travel-sized bottles of shampoo and body wash in rooms, instead requiring guests to request such items. Chu Yu-chen (朱玉宸), 27, who goes by Xiaoyu (小玉) on YouTube, was arrested in October 2021 for creating and selling “deepfake” pornographic videos of 119 people, including politicians and influencers, made with the assistance of Chuang Hsin-jui (莊炘睿) between July 2020 and October 2021.

China, International, MNA | Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shown Berlin that it should become less economically dependent on China, a German lawmaker said ...

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A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be the “ultra-mega” war, to borrow a phrase from Ian Easton, an analyst with the Virginia-based Project 2049 Institute.

And the PLAN’s transport fleet was scattered along the bottom of the Taiwan Strait, depriving Chinese troops on Taiwan of reliable resupply. After a few days of relentless bombardment in the war games, the PLARF began to run out of missiles. The U.S. “Japanese air losses were also high in two out of three iterations, averaging 122 aircraft, and were also largely incurred on the ground.” forces had expended all of the roughly 4,000 cruise missiles in their inventory. The bomber campaign, working in concert with Navy was unable to take up the air-power slack resulting from the suppression of USAF squadrons in the CSIS simulations. “In all base-scenario iterations, the [U.S.] Air Force suffered losses between 70 and 274 aircraft, mostly on the ground,” the analysts explained. But “the relative strength of U.S. and Japanese aircraft losses occurred on the ground” in CSIS’s war games, Geography explains the extreme vulnerability of Taiwanese, U.S. While many hundreds of fighter jets would participate in the war, very few of them would shoot at each other.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday he seriously doubted that ramped up Chinese military activities near the Taiwan Strait were a sign of ...

"But whether or not that means that an invasion is imminent, you know, I seriously doubt that," Austin said. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday he seriously doubted that ramped up Chinese military activities near the Taiwan Strait were a sign of an imminent invasion of the island by Beijing. "We've seen increased aerial activity in the straits, we've seen increased surface vessel activity around Taiwan," Austin said during a press conference alongside U.S.

The two sides will negotiate proposed texts covering anticorruption measures, small and midsize enterprise trade, good regulatory practices, certain services ...

The coming meeting in Taipei, between Jan. and Taiwan officials. The U.S.

HSINCHU AIR BASE, Taiwan — Mirage fighter jets soared over this air base near the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, a routine day for aircraft that answer threats ...

Wednesday, for example, the ministry reported eight Chinese aircraft and three vessels in the previous 24 hours. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense issues daily statements about Chinese military activities in the waters and airspace around the island. Beijing considers democratic, self-governing Taiwan to be a breakaway province that must be reunified with the mainland, by force if necessary.

China renewed its threats to attack Taiwan and warned that foreign politicians who interact with the self-governing island are “playing with fire.”

At the end of December, “We call on the relevant countries to … “The most important thing is to maintain the safety of our airspace and national security,” air force Lt.

While the Taiwanese military is able to prevent initial invaders moving beyond beachheads, US Naval forces and aerial bombardments quickly cripple the Chinese ...

As to whether the US should defend Taiwan in the first place, the CSIS stated that it's not taking a position. To be deterred, China must doubt their ability to prevail through force of arms," the report concludes – "but it will require planning, some resources, and political will." [argued](https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/07/china_must_seize_tsmc/) that China should invade Taiwan and seize control of TSMC if the US imposed sanctions on it akin to those placed on Russia in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine. "If China believes that the United States would be unwilling to bear the high costs of defending Taiwan, then China might risk an invasion … The best goal, therefore, is deterrence – but the US needs to step up its efforts in that department, CSIS said. Meanwhile, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warned the loss of access to Taiwanese chips could [devastate](https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/21/us_taiwan_chips_china/) the US economy. That would give the US permission to enter into stronger military agreements and sell the country arms, though it's unclear if President Biden would support the measure. "The United States would sustain as many personnel casualties in a month of such conflict as in 20 years of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," the researchers argued. Nor did China's violation of Taiwan's airspace in [late December 2022](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/taiwan-says-43-chinese-air-force-planes-crossed-taiwan-strait-median-line-2022-12-26/). "Although this project focused on conventional conflict, many analyses of an invasion have nuclear play," the report said. That's how a US-China war over Taiwan would play out, according to researchers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Fourth, the US needs to be able to strike China's fleet quickly, en masse, from outside China's defensive zone.

The US and its allies may still be able to repel a Chinese invasion of Taiwan but any such clash would come at a massive cost, a recent simulation report shows.

[Asia Times has also reported](https://asiatimes.com/2022/12/us-mulls-scorched-earth-strategy-for-taiwan/) on a possible US “scorched earth” strategy for Taiwan, wherein the US aims to blow up Taiwan’s prized semiconductor fabs in the event of an invasion to prevent their capture by China. He also notes the reputational, economic and political costs of an invasion of Taiwan, which would result in heavy sanctions imposed on Chinese entities that curtail China’s access to key Western markets. [Asia Times has reported](https://asiatimes.com/2022/12/taiwans-hidden-missiles-can-hit-beijing-shanghai/) on Taiwan’s secret missile arsenal that can hit China’s major population centers, including Beijing and Shanghai, which could stoke a widespread backlash against any war on the island. The destruction of these facilities will cripple China’s war effort, as China heavily depends on Taiwan’s semiconductor industry for critical civilian and military applications. It also mentions that China may risk an invasion of Taiwan should it sense the US is unwilling to sustain such heavy losses. Blanchette says that even without US intervention, an invasion of Taiwan would dramatically and negatively affect China’s exports, financial markets, business sentiment and currency exchange rate. CSIS experts noted that China is still deficient logistically in transporting an invasion force across the Taiwan Strait and has tried to supplement its military logistics using civilian shipping companies. The report states that Taiwan lost half its air force, 22 ships and 3,500 ground troops, with a third of that number killed in action. He writes that while China may have invested heavily in its military, it has had not an opportunity to test its capabilities, doctrines or technologies in a conflict situation. The simulation ended with a sobering conclusion that defending the self-governing island would come with staggering losses for the US, Japan, Taiwan and China. Fourth, the US must be able to strike China’s warships from outside the latter’s anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) bubble. First, as China’s logistics weaken, Taiwan must hold the line to contain China’s beachhead and counterattack in force.

Xi Jinping has read Thucydides. Have the China hawks? Taiwan Holds Defence Drills. Taiwan's armed forces hold two days of routine drills to show combat ...

Would those agitating for direct American military involvement to prevent such a war have argued for American military involvement in the Afghan-Soviet wars? The deterioration of the Peace of Nicias invited direct interference from Sparta in a way that is not reflected in current U.S.–China relations. It is simply difficult to project force onto a rugged island inhabited by the rich, the well-armed, and the hostile. Maybe, but a war game assumes the premise that war will break out. An obvious truth bears repeating: For historical and geographic reasons, China has a much greater interest in the resolution of the Taiwan question than the U.S. Do we think he failed to notice in his reading the campaign that dominates Thucydides’ history for two full books? as described by Thucydides in The Peloponnesian War. The island, which is resource-rich and agriculturally self-sufficient, is mountainous and largely forested in its interior. Despite initial success for the mainland forces, a three-year campaign ensues. One is based on a continental mainland; it enjoys a relative preeminence in wealth and manpower and has historically appeared successful in its efforts to project force on nearby neighbors and even overseas. The mainland power’s deliberative body decides to commit an exceptionally large force to subduing the island. The unsuccessful campaign is expensive, wastes an enormous amount of manpower, and leaves the mainland power prone to attack from its other enemies.

Six of the Chinese planes crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait into Taiwanese Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), the ministry wrote on Twitter. The ...

Taiwan has been considered a sovereign territory with its own government and political system under the name of the Republic of China since the end of the civil war between nationalists and communists in 1949, but Beijing maintains it is a rebel province and insists on reunification. 6, Taipei denounced the presence of 71 Chinese planes in the vicinity of the island, in an air deployment of an unprecedented scale around Taiwan. Six of the Chinese planes crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait into Taiwanese Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), the ministry wrote on Twitter.

Taipei, Jan. 12 (CNA) With timely and direct military involvement from the United States and Japan, Taiwan could survive as an autonomous political entity ...

The U.S. institute policies and programs to immediately strengthen military deterrence to ensure that China is aware that an invasion of Taiwan would be very costly and to avoid a pyrrhic victory in the event of conflict. In terms of military hardware losses, the U.S. Even if the U.S. ships as they deploy from the continental United States, resulting in high levels of attrition to U.S. "And any delay or hesitancy on the U.S. Elaborating, the report indicated that after the war, the U.S. In the first three or four weeks of the conflict that models China continuously attacking U.S. "There's no Ukraine model for a Taiwan war," Cancian added, referring to the U.S. must conduct operations from bases in Japan, and the U.S. must immediately enter into direct combat, the U.S. and Japan coming to the island's defense.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips for smartphones and other products, says its quarterly profit ...

They are lobbying TSMC and other chipmakers to set up factories in the United States. The company and Sony Corp. TSMC announced plans last year to build its first chip factory in Japan. Revenue for the final quarter of 2022 rose 42.8% over a year earlier to 625.5 billion New Taiwan dollars ($20.6 billion), the company announced. Fourth quarter sales suffered from “demand softness” as global economies weakened, TSCM’s chief financial officer, Wendell Huang, said in a statement. TSMC, headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, makes processor chips for brands including Apple Inc.

TSMC said its 2023 capital budget is set to be between $32 billion and $36 billion, down from 2022.

Analysts had expected profit of 288.08 billion Taiwanese dollars according to a poll of analysts by S&P Global Market Intelligence. [ ](https://www.barrons.com/market-data/stocks/2330?countrycode=tw)

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the biggest contract...

Revenue for the final quarter of 2022 rose 42.8% over a year earlier to 625.5 billion New Taiwan dollars ($20.6 billion), the company announced. Profit was 295.9 billion New Taiwan dollars ($9.7 billion). TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips for smartphones and other products, said Thursday its quarterly profit rose 78% over a year earlier but forecast weak demand this year.

Taipei, Jan. 12 (CNA) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said late Wednesday that it had asked Taiwan's mission in Jordan to help three Taiwanese, ...

During the search of two or three hours, they were repeatedly asked why they came to Egypt and what their occupations were, he said. In a social media post, the sister of one of Chen's two friends said the lawyer the three hired was unable to meet with them and they were only told that a local court would hold a hearing on Wednesday, without being officially informed of the charges. Ou made the comments after Chen asked for help in a social media post that detailed how he and two friends were prevented from taking an Emirates flight to Jordan at Cairo International Airport Tuesday evening because the local authorities suspect them of stealing artifacts.

The CSIS study, which was released earlier this week, found that the combined forces of Taiwan, US and Japan will be able to defeat an invasion by China but ...

Third, the US must be able to sustain its bases in Japan. Follow us on [also read] [World](https://www.firstpost.com/category/world) [China invokes Germany's 'painful' past, slams parliamentary delegation's visit to Taiwan](https://www.firstpost.com/world/china-invokes-germanys-painful-past-slams-mps-visit-to-taiwan-11955102.html) For China, the report paints an even scarier picture, stating that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will lose 138 ships, 155 aircraft and 52,000 soldiers. But if a report by Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is to be believed, an actual war will bring about staggering losses in men and materials for China as well as Taiwan and its allies US and Japan. The manpower losses of the US military has been predicted at 6,960 personnel with 3,200 killed in action. The CSIS study, which was based on AI simulation of a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan, was released earlier this week.

As long as China continues to wield great economic and military might, Taiwan will remain one of the West's most intractable problems - Anadolu Agency.

[Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. In US foreign policy, China became a threat to US interests. 7, 1949, with the Nationalists leaving mainland China and withdrawing to the nearby island of Taiwan. With the Shanghai Declaration of Feb. A new chapter was opened with the surrender of Japan in 1945. During this period, two different political movements formed in reaction to the exploitation of resources.

Taiwan Semiconductor released its fourth-quarter earnings and easily exceeded estimates. Click here to find out why TSM is a solid buy.

[ttm cash flow statements](https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/TSM/cash-flow-statement), we see that free cash flow is way, way behind operating cash flow for Taiwan Semiconductor. Its revenue is still rising, unlike that of most semiconductor companies, and even its 2023 guidance isn't all that bad. It is known that Xi wants to achieve unification with Taiwan, and considers force to be the last resort if peaceful means can't achieve his ends. So Samsung will need to invest heavily in property plant and equipment ("PPE") if it wants to catch up with TSM, while Intel's revenue indicates that it is in the same boat. [535 customers](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1178173/taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing-company-number-of-customers/) worldwide, spanning a variety of tech industry segments. Now of course, a company that's already in the foundry space like Samsung is part of the way there, but with roughly one third of TSM's Capex spend, it doesn't appear on track to close the gap. As mentioned previously, TSM has much more market share than Samsung or Intel, and it is the only supplier to Apple. The fact that it's both profitable and growing in this environment is what you'd expect of a company that's better than most of its peers. [MU](https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/MU)) revenue declined [47% year over year](https://investors.micron.com/static-files/77790c08-9c18-4337-814b-c93cd02688a0). For this reason, I consider the stock a buy, and intend to add more of it. Bloomberg calculated that sales would come in at [NT$636 billion](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-biggest-chipmaker-tsmc-misses-061454788.html) ($20.88 billion) based on this-a miss. Earnings per share ("EPS") [came in at $1.82](https://investor.tsmc.com/english/encrypt/files/encrypt_file/qr/phase4_reports/2023-01/85e994ad280a242421bde6fbd7231fa647af315b/4Q22EarningsReleaseWoG.pdf) vs.

A new report shows how many casualties the U.S. would take defending Taiwan against China, and how to prevent a fight from happening.

The U.S. By 2026, the U.S. To minimize the effect of that arsenal, the U.S. For example, many Japanese officials think the U.S. In Ukraine, the U.S. Doing so would help the U.S. casualties, allow China to create a stronger lodgment, and raise the risk of escalation,” CSIS wrote. Given this bag of mixed results, CSIS argued that the U.S. CSIS also stressed that it was of vital importance for the U.S. For the U.S., the objective was to sink those amphibious ships using air and naval forces; and for Taiwan, the objective was to use its ground forces to defeat China’s invading army. The think tank argued that amphibious invasion represents “the most dangerous threat to Taiwan and is thus the first course of action that needs to be analyzed.” “The United States should therefore institute policies and programs to make winning less costly in the event of conflict.”

Drive along scenic landscapes, historic villages and cliffside highways on the nine best road trips in Taiwan.

The southern branch of the [National Palace Museum](https://www.lonelyplanet.com/taiwan/western-taiwan/chiayi/attractions/national-palace-museum-southern-branch/a/poi-sig/1541712/357567) is here. Explore the bustling [Fengjia Night Market](https://www.lonelyplanet.com/taiwan/western-taiwan/taichung/restaurants/fengjia-night-market/a/poi-eat/1429063/357578), one of the most famous night markets in Taiwan, before departing for the alpine Sun Moon Lake. [Chiayi](https://www.lonelyplanet.com/taiwan/western-taiwan/chiayi) is full of hometown hospitality. [Tzushr Temple](http://www.longfuyan.org.tw/), and some of the best examples of late Qing Dynasty and early Japanese colonial period architecture can be found on Sansia's [Minquan Old Street](https://www.lonelyplanet.com/taiwan/northern-taiwan/yingge/attractions/minquan-old-street/a/poi-sig/1357796/357541). [Gold Museum](https://www.lonelyplanet.com/taiwan/northern-taiwan/jiufen-and-jinguashi/attractions/gold-ecological-park/a/poi-sig/1357861/357533) and a former POW camp during the Japanese Occupation. Alishan was originally settled by the Tsou, one of Taiwan’s aboriginal tribes, and is one of the most beautiful places to visit in Taiwan. [Lanyang Museum](https://www.lonelyplanet.com/taiwan/wai-ao/attractions/lanyang-museum/a/poi-sig/1399941/1327783), which has exhibits on the Lanyang Plain and hot springs. Stop at [Zhinan Temple](https://www.lonelyplanet.com/taiwan/taipei/taipei-s-suburbs/maokong/attractions/zhinan-temple/a/poi-sig/1358782/1318927), a Taoist temple dedicated to Lu Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals, and nicknamed "Temple of 1000 Steps," thanks to its 1275 steps. Visits to the island are only possible from March to November; the best time to see bottlenose dolphins and the occasional whale is April to August. [email newsletter](https://www.lonelyplanet.com/newsletter?utm_source=lparticle&utm_medium=lp+site&utm_campaign=email). Backtrack a short distance to the fishing village of Keelung, famed for its temples and bustling Miaokou Night Market near the harbor. It's known as Ilha Formosa (Beautiful Island), and from hot springs to pristine beaches to cosmopolitan cities, it's obvious why.

TSMC said its 2023 capital budget is set to be between $32 billion and $36 billion, down from 2022.

Analysts had expected profit of 288.08 billion Taiwanese dollars according to a poll of analysts by S&P Global Market Intelligence. [ ](https://www.barrons.com/market-data/stocks/2330?countrycode=tw)

Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) stock advanced 1.8% early Thursday after the premier chip foundry in the world posted a mixed Q4. Shares of the Warren-Buff.

The author makes no representations as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability of this information. [forecast](https://www.fxstreet.com/rates-charts/forecast) the semiconductor cycle to bottom sometime in first half and see a recovery in second half 2023," CEO C.C. Today is the unofficial start of the fourth quarter earnings season. The author has not received compensation for writing this article, other than from FXStreet. The author will not be held responsible for information that is found at the end of links posted on this page. Taiwan Semiconductor is a major supplier for both Nvidia (NVDA) and Apple (AAPL). Management guided for Q1 revenue between $16.7 billion and $17.5 billion, which is a bit behind the $17.57 billion in sales derived from Q1 2022. It also does not guarantee that this information is of a timely nature. The chief executive added that AI-enabled chips would spur the rebound in the second half of the year. This slowdown is expected to continue through the first half of the year, according to Taiwan Semi's C-suite. This jives with earlier reporting that the broad semiconductor industry was seeing a slowdown in sales beginning in November. Wall Street on average had estimated $20.92 billion in sales for the quarter, but this miss did not greatly affect the share price, which rose to $83.25 in Thursday's premarket.

One day ahead of the unofficial kickoff of fourth quarter earnings season with a bevy of large banks reporting, one major corporation released their Q4 ...

The trader could end up long 200 shares with a net basis of $78.18. The trader ends up long 100 shares at a net basis of $86.35. I just need to see the shares pass that test. Though the mid-November gap that I drew up that purple X for has filled, I see five others that may have to fill. Based on an exchange rate of 30.7 NT (New Taiwan Dollars) to one US dollar, the firm expects to produce a gross profit margin of 53.5% to 55.5% and an operating profit margin of 41.5% to 43.5%. All that said, TSM has left a number of unfilled gaps in its wake as it has climbed off of the early November bottom. While the shares have retaken their 200 day SMA (simple moving average) this morning, they are also sneaking up on a 38.2% retracement level of the January 2021 through November 2022 selloff with relative strength nearly reading as being technically overbought. The guidance mentioned above is more optimistic than the CFO sounds. If my math and conversions are correct (using their 30.7 times assumption), I show Q4 operating cash flow of $15.86B resulting in free cash flow of $4.95B. For the current quarter, Taiwan Semi expects to drive revenue of $16.7B to $17.5B. IoT (Internet of Things) is a distant third at 8%. This number fell short of both guidance and expectations despite being good for year over year growth of 26.6%.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing posted mixed fourth-quarter results and guided below views for the current quarter. TSM stock rose.

[IBD Stock Checkup](https://research.investors.com/stock-checkup/nyse-taiwan-semiconductor-adr-tsm.aspx). TSMC noted that it has seen demand soften for data center chips. The midpoint of $17.1 billion was below Wall Street's target of $17.65 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet had predicted TSMC earnings of $1.80 a share on sales of $20.6 billion. TSMC defines 7-nanometer and smaller nodes as advanced technologies. share on sales of $19.93 billion in the December quarter. For the current quarter, TSMC forecast sales of $16.7 billion to $17.5 billion. On a year-over-year basis, TSMC earnings rose 57% while sales climbed 30%. It also guided below views for the current quarter as chip demand weakens. [AMD](https://research.investors.com/quote.aspx?symbol=AMD)), Apple ( [AAPL](https://research.investors.com/quote.aspx?symbol=AAPL)), Nvidia ( [NVDA](https://research.investors.com/quote.aspx?symbol=NVDA)), Qualcomm ( [QCOM](https://research.investors.com/quote.aspx?symbol=QCOM)) and others. In the year-ago period, it generated sales of $16.49 billion. [TSM](https://research.investors.com/quote.aspx?symbol=TSM)), the world's largest contract chipmaker, on Thursday beat expectations for earnings in the fourth quarter but missed on sales.