Taiwan's TSMC exits Arm with $231 million share sale


FILE PHOTO: The TSMC logo is displayed on a building in Hsinchu, Taiwan April 15, 2025. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo

TAIPEI, ⁠April 29 (Reuters) - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ⁠Co, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, ‌has sold its remaining stake in Arm Holdings, according to a company filing on Wednesday.

Its ​subsidiary, TSMC Partners, sold ⁠1.11 million Arm ⁠shares from April 28 to 29 at $207.65 ⁠each, ‌for a total of about $231 million, the filing showed.

The ⁠disposal resulted in an impact on retained ​earnings ‌of $174 million.

Following the transaction, TSMC no ⁠longer holds ​any Arm shares.

The company said the transaction was part of a disposal ⁠of an equity investment, according ​to the filing.

TSMC had invested about $100 million in Arm at $51 per share during ⁠the chip designer’s initial public offering in 2023, alongside several strategic investors.

It has been gradually reducing its stake, ​having sold 850,000 shares ⁠in 2024 at $119.47 each for about $102 million, ​according to filings ‌at the time.

Arm shares ​fell 7.98% on Tuesday.

(Reporting by Wen-Yee Lee; Editing by Thomas Derpinghaus)

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