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The clip highlights Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s 50 percent year-over-year Q3 revenue surge and connects that single data point to a broader AI and chip rally, naming Nvidia and Apple as beneficiaries. The speaker uses TSMC’s strength as direct evidence that demand for AI chips and the suppliers that feed Nvidia and Apple remains robust, making the company’s quarterly jump the clearest immediate explanation for renewed market enthusiasm in semiconductors.