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TSMC has reiterated that its focus is dedicated IC foundry work, after a report said it was planning to make 3D DRAM at Nvidia’s request. The statement adds a significant qualification to a story about AI hardware’s increasingly tight memory supply.

A TSMC spokesperson told Tom’s Hardware that the company’s mission is to serve the global logic IC industry. That is not an explicit denial that planning has taken place, and the underlying report, attributed to two people familiar with the initiative, remains a reported possibility rather than a confirmed manufacturing plan. The distinction matters: 3D DRAM is a potential longer-term supply-chain shift, not a fix for today’s memory shortages.

Discuss: Should TSMC’s words be read as a meaningful rebuttal, or as a restatement of its public focus that leaves the reported plans open?

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