TSMC Forecast Lifts Peers on Robust AI Demand
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4.5 • 49 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss TSMC’s strong earnings and forecast, a sign that demand related to AI remains robust. Plus, OpenAI strikes a $10 billion deal with Cerebras for compute, and hunts for hardware partners across data centers and consumer devices. And New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sues a delivery tech company, accusing it of breaking local worker-protection laws.
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| 0:00.0 | AI agents are getting pretty impressive. |
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| 0:09.6 | No hold music. |
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| 0:17.4 | Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts Radio News. |
| 0:27.1 | Bloomberg Tech is live from coast to coast |
| 0:29.8 | with Caroline Hyde in New York |
| 0:32.6 | and Ed Lovellow in San Francisco. |
| 0:37.0 | This is Bloomberg Tech. Coming up, TSM posts a strong forecast and results, lifting peers. |
| 0:42.9 | A sign that demand related to AI remains robust. |
| 0:46.1 | This is Open AI focuses on its infrastructure, striking a deal with Cerebrus for compute |
| 0:50.5 | and hunting for hardware partners across data centers and consumer devices. |
| 0:55.2 | And the mayor of New York City is suing a delivery tech company accusing it of breaking |
| 1:00.0 | local worker protection laws. We'll get into that in a moment, but first we're checking |
| 1:03.5 | on where the markets are. And actually, we're managing to rally in the NASDAQ 100 after |
| 1:07.8 | two days of losses. It's all about that TSM headline that you were just discussing, Ed, and the rejuvenation in maybe wading back into these key AI names, NVIDIA, indeed, one of the key points rides is higher. Bitcoin, though, not feeling much of the love. There's also a delay to a key Senate markup on the market structure bill, So that's putting some pressure on the ecosystem more |
| 1:27.7 | generally. But watch for crypto, but you're looking at TSMC. Yeah, the world's most important |
| 1:33.2 | chip contract manufacturer telling us capital expenditures up to 56 billion this year. Top line growths 30%. |
| 1:40.7 | Two markers that the AI demand is intact. But ASML, the most important chip equipment |
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