NVIDIA and Apple are among the three technology companies with the highest market value at this point. But neither of them will be able to breathe without the help of TSMC, which can be labeled as the world's largest chip foundry company. According to the latest Trendforce report, the global foundry market reached a value of $41.7 billion in Q2 2025 with $30.24 billion or 70.2% of which is held by TSMC.
TSMC's revenue in Q2 2025 was almost 10 times that of Samsung in second place with a share of only 7.3% followed by SMIC (5.1%), UMC (4.4%) and GlobalFoundries (3.9%). TSMC increased their share in the foundry world from 67.6% in Q1 2025.
TSMC's advantage lies in the more efficient 3nm production technique than that offered by Samsung. This is one of the reasons Samsung failed to get a contract to produce the Tensor G5 chip from Google for the Pixel 10 series. Samsung was only able to breathe because they received orders from Tesla and themselves through the Exynos chip.