Apple chipmaker TSMC has announced record revenues for the first quarter of the year, despite the continued component shortage and COVID lockdowns in China.
The company said that Q1 revenue was 35% higher than the same quarter last year – even though it had faced challenges …
The company today issued a one-page revenue report.
A more detailed report will follow later this month.
TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for March 2022: On a consolidated basis, revenue for March 2022 was approximately NT$171.97 billion, an increase of 17.0 percent from February 2022 and an increase of 33.2 percent from March 2021. Revenue for January through March 2022 totaled NT$491.08 billion, an increase of 35.5 percent compared to the same period in 2021.
Bloomberg notes that the company had been able to workaround lockdowns in China by rearranging production to follow changes in demand.
The company had previously cited signs of a slowdown in demand for products like smartphones, but nothing bad enough to need to adjust its overall growth targets.
TSMC has kept production running in China, even as many other factories suspended operations to cope with the local pandemic policy. The chip assembler said in end-March that it will rearrange production priorities to deal with a shift in demand caused by Covid restrictions in Shanghai and Shenzhen. TSMC wasn’t planning to revise down its sales and capital spending forecasts for 2022, Chairman Mark Liu said at the time.
Despite the chipmaker’s optimism, however, analysts will seek reassurance about plans to ensure continued supplies of key materials.
TSMC is expected to win orders for Apple’s own 5G modem design for next year’s iPhone line-up.
TSMC’s inventory strategy on key materials such as silicon wafers and industrial gases will be a key focus at the 1Q results briefing, as rising geopolitical tension and slow global wafer capacity gains keep the supply picture foggy.
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