TSM
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
stock NYSE ADR

TSM is currently paying high premium compares to their Taiwanese counterpart.

Amzn PLTR TSM

TSM 唯一擁有高階製程產能的企業

Intended portfolio as below, will it be a gamble?
Pls feel free to give opinion. Cheers!
|MSFT |
|:-|
|GOOGL|
|TSM|
|AVGO / MRVL |
|AMAT / RMBS|
|LRCX|
|RKLB |
|ASTS|
|RDW|
|MU / DRAM |
|NBIS / IREN|
|SLS|

100%, that's the discount you're paid for. It's why TSM still trades below its AI peers despite outgrowing most of them, the Taiwan discount has narrowed since the days Buffett bought and dumped it over exactly this fear, but it's still in the multiple. You're getting paid to hold it.
And honestly, if China actually moves on Taiwan, there's no hiding in the rest of the market anyway. Apple, Nvidia, AMD, half the S&P's earnings run through TSMC fabs. SPY doesn't dodge that bullet, it just gets shot slower. It's systemic risk wearing a single-ticker costume.
Meanwhile they're de-risking it in real time. Arizona fabs are producing, Japan's running, Germany's building. Not fast enough to matter in an invasion scenario, but enough that the "one island" story gets weaker every year. I'll take a priced-in risk over an unpriced one.

AVGO & TSM

Basket approach
25% VOO
25% schd
10% O
10% EPR
10% TSM
10% JNJ
10% KO
Probably could do better but you get the idea.

Tae-won is very similar to Taiwan. Calls on TSM

Okay, here is an updated portfolio:
VOO 20%
QQQM 15%
AVMV 10%
AVUV 15%
VXUS 10%
AIS 5%
NASA 5%
ITA 5%
PICK 5%
XLE 5%
XBI 5%
https://etfdb.com/tool/portfolio-analyzer/?etfs%5Bxbi%5D=5&etfs%5Bxle%5D=5&etfs%5Bpick%5D=5&etfs%5Bita%5D=5&etfs%5Bnasa%5D=5&etfs%5Bais%5D=5&etfs%5Bvxus%5D=10&etfs%5Bavuv%5D=15&etfs%5Bavmv%5D=10&etfs%5Bqqqm%5D=15&etfs%5Bvoo%5D=20
The main differences to an index like the S&P500 is that you have reduced your top 10 weighting from around 35-40% to 15.72%. The top 20 in your portfolio is 23.64%. Lots of dispersed weightings. +35% in technology and tech as a service. The top holdings are still majorly mag7 stocks. This is not bad and in some ways good.
GE aerospace is a top 10 and your weighting in oil companies is huge. RKLB, TSM, SK Hynix are some non S&P500 stocks that stand out.
This is a very aggressive and complicated portfolio to dollar cost average into. While not top 10 heavy, still weighted heavily into volatile stocks.
The thematic etfs can go down or sideways for months or years. It can be very easy to stress about them. A broad market momentum etf like SPMO or FMTM could simplify your 30% etf hunting portion of your portfolio. It's up to you.

TSM, GOOG, MSFT
I'm willing to bet that at least 2 out of the 3 print on earnings day

VOO TSM URA

INTC. TSM. GOOG.

TSM, AMD, ASTS.

ABBV, ASML, TSM

TSM, NVDA and SCHG

TSM, ALAB, MU

MU tied with TSM
NVDA (2x less than respectively MU or TSM)

MU AMZN TSM

Spy TSM dram

CEG UUUU KLAC TSM LRCX ASML GLW MU SNDK and a little APLD have been my recent purchases. I swing trade pretty aggressively and don't mind 50% drawdowns, so check yoself and proceed wit caution.