According to the "Wall Street Journal" report today (26), as the global semiconductor demand continues to grow, the foundry leader TSMC (TSMC) has a market value of US$600 billion, becoming the most valuable company in Asia.Data from S&P Global Market Intelligence (S&P Global Market Intelligence) based on the latest closing price shows that TSMC ranks ninth in the world in market value, slightly behind Berkshire Hathaway, the holding company of US stock god Warren Buffett. Hathaway Inc.). At the same time, TSMC also replaced China's Tencent Holdings Ltd. as Asia's largest company by market capitalization. Tencent has also been greatly affected due to the recent tightening of Beijing's regulatory policies on technology giants.According to Wikipedia, the ranking in the fourth quarter of 2021, the 10 largest companies in order of market value are Apple, Microsoft, Google parent company Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla, Facebook parent company Meta, Nvidia, Berkshire Hathaway, TSMC, Tencent. With the exception of Taiwan's TSMC and China's Tencent, the top 10 companies are all American. Among them, Apple’s market value has broken through the $3 trillion mark, becoming the first company in the world to break through this threshold in history, and some people are even optimistic that it is expected to continue the surge in 2021 and reach the top.Under the global chip demand, TSMC, the wafer foundry in Taiwan's semiconductor industry, has also been promoted to the top 10. In terms of industries, the 8 American companies on the list, except Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway In addition to investing in traditional industries such as insurance, finance, and railways, all others are simply classified as technology stocks, thus reflecting global industrial changes.