OR ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIESEXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December31, 2025OR TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIESEXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 OR SHELL COMPANY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THESECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Date of event requiring this shell company report ___________For the transition period from ___________ to ___________Commission file number 1-14700__________________________台灣積體電路製造股份有限公司(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)__________________________ Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited(Translation of Registrant’s Name Into English) No. 8, Li-Hsin Road 6Hsinchu Science ParkHsinchu 300-096, TaiwanRepublic of China(Address of Principal Executive Offices) Wendell Huang, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer & SpokespersonTelephone: 886-3-5055921 / Email: invest@tsmc.comNo. 8, Li-Hsin Road 6, Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu 300-096, Taiwan, Republic of China(Name, Telephone, E-mail and/or Facsimile number and Address of Company Contact Person) Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None(Title of Class) Indicate the number of outstanding shares of each of the issuer’s classes of capital or common stock as of the close ofthe period covered by the annual report. As ofDecember31, 2025,25,932,524,521Common Shares, par value NT$10 each were outstanding. Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the SecuritiesAct.YesNo If this report is an annual or transition report, indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reportspursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.YesNo Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) ofthe Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant wasrequired to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.YesNo Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to besubmitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for suchshorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).YesNo Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated fileror an emerging growth company. See definition of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” and “emerging growthcompany” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate bycheck mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revisedfinancial accounting standards† provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. †The term “new or revised financial accounting standard” refers to any update issued by the Financial AccountingStandards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012. Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment ofthe effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C.7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financialstatements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financialstatements. Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis ofincentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery periodpursuant to §240.10D-1(b). Indicate by check mark which basis of accounting the registrant has used to prepare the financial statements includedin this filing: U.S. GAAPInternational Financial Reporting Standards as issuedby the International Accounting Standards BoardOther If “Other” has been checked in response to the previous question, indicate by check mark which financial statementitem the registrant has elected to follow. Item 17Item 18 If this is an annual report, indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2of the Exchange Act).YesNo Not for trading, but only in connection with the listing on the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. of AmericanDepositary Shares (“ADS”) representing such Common Shares. TABLE OF CONTENTSTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company LimitedPageCAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION1PART I3ITEM 1.IDENTITY OF