• Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

• Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC), established in 1987 with its headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is best known for dedicated semiconductor foundry business, which is the manufacturer of integrated circuits (ICs) for customers based on their own or third parties' IC designs. 

  The company offers a range of wafer fabrication processes, including embedded non-volatile memory process, embedded dynamic random access memory (DRAM) process, mixed signal/ radio frequency (RF) process, high voltage process, complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor process, color filter process, micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) process and silicon germanium process, among others.

  The Company's chips are used in computer products, communications products and consumer electronic products. Various fabless high-tech companies such as Qualcomm, Altera, Broadcom, Conexant, Marvell, NVIDIA, and VIA are customers of TSMC.

• Performance

  The company's stock price closed at NT$235.5 on the TSE on Tuesday, October 17, 2017.

  The company has reported consolidated revenues of NT$88,579 million for September 2017, representing a 3.6% drop on month and 1.3% drop on year.

  For the second quarter of 2017, the company totaled NT$213,855 million in consolidated revenues, down 8.6% sequentially and down 3.6% on year.
  Brief

  Full name: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

  Chinese name: 台灣積體電路製造股份有限公司

  Short name: TSMC

  Arconym: TSMC

  Stock code: 2330

  Country: Taiwan

  Tax ID: 22099131

  Market: TSE

  Established: 21 Feb 1987

  Paid in capital: NT$259.30 billion

  Listed on TSE: 5 Sep 1994

  Website: www.tsmc.com
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• Latest stock

  TSMC [2330] historical stock price (NT$)
  Date	Volume (k)	Transactions	Value	Open	High	Low	Close	Change		Ask	Bid
  18-Oct	28,887	10,329	6,881,363,783	239.50	239.50	237.00	237.50	+2.00	+0.85%	237.50	238.00
  17-Oct	17,584	5,687	4,155,784,500	238.00	238.00	235.00	235.50	-2.50	-1.05%	235.50	236.00
  16-Oct	19,877	5,990	4,717,768,500	237.50	238.00	236.00	238.00	+0.50	+0.21%	237.50	238.00
  13-Oct	23,145	10,507	5,465,540,327	237.50	237.50	234.50	237.50	+0.00	+0.00%	237.00	237.50
  12-Oct	42,390	16,485	10,028,715,582	235.00	237.50	234.50	237.50	+4.50	+1.93%	237.00	237.50
  11-Oct	63,668	20,864	14,709,173,384	226.50	233.50	226.50	233.00	+8.50	+3.79%	233.00	233.50

  • Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes

  Latest sales

  TSMC: Consolidated revenues, Sep 2016 - Sep 2017 (NT$m)
  Month	Sales	M/M	Y/Y	YTD	Y/Y
  Sep-17	88,579	(3.6%)	(1.3%)	699,877	2.1%
  Aug-17	91,917	28.4%	(2.5%)	611,298	2.6%
  Jul-17	71,611	(14.9%)	(6.3%)	519,381	3.5%
  Jun-17	84,187	15.7%	3.4%	447,770	5.3%
  May-17	72,796	28%	(1.1%)	363,582	5.7%
  Apr-17	56,872	(33.8%)	(14.9%)	290,786	7.6%
  Mar-17	85,875	20.2%	17.5%	233,914	15%
  Feb-17	71,423	(6.8%)	19.9%	148,039	13.5%
  Jan-17	76,616	(1.9%)	8.1%	76,616	8.1%
  Dec-16	78,112	(16%)	33.9%	947,938	12.4%
  Nov-16	93,030	2.1%	46.7%	869,826	10.8%
  Oct-16	91,085	1.5%	11.4%	776,796	7.6%
  Sep-16	89,703	(4.9%)	39%	685,711	7.2%

  *Figures are consolidated
  Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes, October 2017

  TSMC: Consolidated revenues, 2Q16 - 2Q17 (NT$m)
  Quarter	Sales	Q/Q	Y/Y	YTD	Y/Y
  2Q-17	213,855	(8.6%)	(3.6%)	447,770	5.3%
  1Q-17	233,914	(10.8%)	15%	233,914	15%
  4Q-16	262,227	0.7%	28.9%	947,938	12.4%
  3Q-16	260,406	17.4%	22.5%	685,711	7.2%
  2Q-16	221,810	9%	8%	425,305	(0.5%)

  *Figures are consolidated
  Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes, October 2017

  Latest balance sheet and income statement

  TSMC: Consolidated balance sheet, 2Q16 - 2Q17 (NT$k)
  Item	2Q-2017	1Q-2017	4Q-2016	3Q-2016	2Q-2016
  Current assets	838,049,552	825,661,833	817,729,126	709,591,485	852,525,071
  Intangible assets	14,118,892	14,278,436	14,614,846	14,630,613	14,066,562
  Non-current assets	1,148,384,225	1,109,001,928	1,068,726,176	1,009,095,278	951,966,489
  Assets	1,986,433,777	1,934,663,761	1,886,455,302	1,718,686,763	1,804,491,560
  Current liabilities	523,507,145	321,580,524	318,239,273	257,555,112	398,739,054
  Non-current liabilities	120,560,987	156,773,212	178,164,903	177,239,002	208,421,528
  Liabilities	644,068,132	478,353,736	496,404,176	434,794,114	607,160,582
  Stockholders' equity	1,342,365,645	1,456,310,025	1,390,051,126	1,283,892,649	1,197,330,978

  *Figures are consolidated
  Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes, October 2017

  TSMC: Consolidated income statement, 2Q16 - 2Q17 (NT$k)
  Item	2Q-2017		1Q-2017		4Q-2016		3Q-2016		2Q-2016
  	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales
  Operating revenue	213,855,212		233,914,400		262,227,252		260,405,885		221,809,846
  Gross profit (loss) from operations	108,753,243	50.9%	121,485,666	51.9%	137,110,387	52.3%	132,039,072	50.7%	114,341,245	51.5%
  Operating expenses	25,366,814	11.9%	26,156,483	11.2%	27,176,908	10.4%	25,840,588	9.9%	23,007,640	10.4%
  Operating income (loss)	83,255,401	38.9%	95,352,390	40.8%	109,907,341	41.9%	106,262,122	40.8%	91,321,001	41.2%
  Non-operating expenses and losses	2,862,066	1.3%	2,470,109	1.1%	2,140,134	0.8%	1,987,493	0.8%	2,085,390	0.9%
  Income from continuing operations before income tax	86,117,467	40.3%	97,822,499	41.8%	112,047,475	42.7%	108,249,615	41.6%	93,406,391	42.1%
  Net income (loss)	66,270,652	31%	87,620,908	37.5%	100,228,247	38.2%	96,789,113	37.2%	72,528,279	32.7%
  Diluted earnings per share (NT$)	2.6		3.4		3.9		3.7		2.8

  *Figures are consolidated
  Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes, October 2017

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