Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSM) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

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Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to TSMC's third quarter 2025 earnings conference call. This is Jeff Su, TSMC's Director of Investor Relations, and your host for today. TSMC is hosting our earnings conference call via live audio webcast through the company's website at www.tsmc.com, where you can also download the earnings release materials. If you are joining us through the conference call, your dial-in lines are in listen-only mode. The format for today's event will be as follows. First, TSMC's Senior Vice President and CFO, Mr. Wendell Huang, will summarize our operations in the third quarter of 2025, followed by our guidance for the fourth quarter of 2025. Afterwards, Mr. Huang and TSMC's chairman and CEO, Dr. Cici Wei, will jointly provide the company's key messages. Then we will open the line for Q&A. As usual, I would like to remind everybody that today's discussions may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Please refer to the safe harbor notice that appears in our press release. And now, I would like to turn the call over to TSMC CFO, Mr. Wendell Huang, for the summary of operations and the current quarter guidance. Thank you, Jeff. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. My presentation will start with financial highlights for the third quarter 2025. After that, I will provide the guidance for the fourth quarter 2025. Third quarter revenue increased 6% sequentially in NT as our business was supported by strong demand for our leading edge process technologies. In US dollar terms, revenue increased 10.1% sequentially to 33.1 billion, slightly ahead of our third quarter guidan...