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TNB Tech Minute: Chip Stocks Rally After TSMC Posts Record Quarter

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: Verizon’s hourslong outage tied to software update issue. And Ford Motor in talks to partner with BYD for batteries. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, January 15th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:38.7

In markets,

0:43.9

semiconductor stocks rallied after Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing posted a record quarter.

0:50.6

At close, U.S. listed shares of TSM went up over 4%. The world's largest contract chipmaker said it plans to increase capital expenditure this year to up to $56 billion,

0:55.9

a sign that demand remains strong from clients such as Apple, Google, and Nvidia.

1:00.5

Shares in AMD rose nearly 2%, shares of applied materials jumped over 5%, and shares in

1:07.2

ASML, which makes chip manufacturing equipment used by TSM also closed up over 5%.

1:13.3

Verizon Communications says yesterday's hours-long service interruption was tied to an issue with a

1:19.9

software update. The company is offering affected customers a $20 account credit. Wednesday's

1:25.3

outage affected wireless voice and data services for many customers.

1:29.3

According to outage tracking site down detector, more than 2 million reports were submitted,

1:33.8

claiming problems with Verizon service between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. Eastern time.

1:39.2

Finally, we exclusively report that Ford Motor and B.Y.D. are discussing a partnership for Ford to purchase batteries from the Chinese auto company for some hybrid vehicle models.

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