Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM) and Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) both represent promising ways to invest in the growth of the semiconductor market. TSMC (as it's often called) is the world's largest contract chipmaker, producing chips for Apple, AMD, and Nvidia, among others. Micron is one of the world's leading manufacturers of DRAM and NAND memory chips.

Both chipmakers struggled in 2023 as the PC and smartphone markets cooled. But their stocks rallied over the past 12 months in anticipation of their cyclical recoveries and the expansion of the artificial intelligence (AI) market. Should investors buy either of these semiconductor stocks as they hover near their all-time highs?

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