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2026-05-12
The Motley Fool
Few companies have benefited more from theartificial intelligence (AI)boom thanTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing(TSM2.10%). The Taiwan-based foundry fabricates the vast majority of the world's most advanced chips, including the graphics processing units (GPUs) and custom accelerators that hyperscalers likeMicrosoftandAlphabetuse to train and run AI models. Up nearly 150% over the past year and tr
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2026-05-07
The Motley Fool
When looking at the recent earnings increases from some of the most prominent growth stocks, the effect of artificial intelligence (AI) is nothing short of spectacular. Although such numbers do not reflect the entire company,Microsoftreported 40% Azure cloud growth yearly, and 63% for Google's parent company,Alphabet.For now, most of that growth depends on AI and, by extension, the AI accelerators