• 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$114 on the TSE on Tuesday, March 11, 2014.

  The company has reported consolidated revenues of NT$46,829 million for February 2014, representing a 9% drop on month and 13.7% increase on year.

  For the third quarter of 2013, the company totaled NT$162,577 million in consolidated revenues, up 4.3% sequentially and up 15% 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$259.28 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
  12-Mar	18,415	5,218	2,073,574,352	112.50	113.00	112.00	113.00	-1.00	-0.88%	113.00	112.50
  11-Mar	28,483	9,131	3,244,302,889	113.50	114.50	113.50	114.00	+1.00	+0.88%	114.00	113.50
  10-Mar	37,952	9,234	4,300,152,483	114.50	114.50	112.50	113.00	-1.50	-1.31%	113.00	112.50
  7-Mar	66,917	17,219	7,649,451,186	114.00	115.00	113.50	114.50	+1.50	+1.33%	114.50	114.00
  6-Mar	69,894	18,138	7,836,671,044	110.00	113.50	110.00	113.00	+3.00	+2.73%	113.50	113.00
  5-Mar	54,929	16,508	6,017,474,409	108.50	110.00	108.50	110.00	+2.50	+2.33%	110.00	109.50
  4-Mar	47,956	9,490	5,167,595,218	108.00	108.00	107.50	107.50	-0.50	-0.46%	108.00	107.50
  3-Mar	51,463	10,033	5,525,614,335	108.00	108.00	106.50	108.00	+0.00	+0.00%	108.00	107.50

  • Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes

  Latest sales

  TSMC: Consolidated revenues, Feb 2013 - Feb 2014 (NT$m)
  Month	Sales	M/M	Y/Y	YTD	Y/Y
  Feb-14	46,829	(9%)	13.7%	98,259	10.9%
  Jan-14	51,430	3.5%	8.4%	51,430	8.4%
  Dec-13	49,681	12.1%	33.9%	597,024	17.8%
  Nov-13	44,330	(14.4%)	0.2%	547,343	16.6%
  Oct-13	51,795	(6.5%)	3.7%	503,013	18.3%
  Sep-13	55,382	0.5%	27.8%	451,218	20.2%
  Aug-13	55,091	5.7%	11.3%	395,836	19.3%
  Jul-13	52,103	(3.6%)	7.4%	340,745	20.7%
  Jun-13	54,028	4.3%	24.3%	288,641	23.5%
  May-13	51,788	3.4%	17.2%	234,614	23.3%
  Apr-13	50,071	13.5%	23.5%	182,826	25.1%
  Mar-13	44,134	7.2%	18.9%	132,755	25.7%
  Feb-13	41,182	(13.2%)	21.5%	88,621	29.4%

  *Figures are consolidated
  Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes, March 2014

  TSMC: Consolidated revenues, 3Q12 - 3Q13 (NT$m)
  Quarter	Sales	Q/Q	Y/Y	YTD	Y/Y
  3Q-13	162,577	4.3%	15%	451,218	20.3%
  2Q-13	155,886	17.4%	21.7%	288,641	23.6%
  1Q-13	132,755	1.1%	25.8%	132,755	25.8%
  4Q-12	131,305	(7.1%)	25.4%	506,249	18.5%
  3Q-12	141,375	10.4%	32.8%	374,944	16.3%

  *Figures are consolidated
  Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes, March 2014

  Latest balance sheet and income statement

  TSMC: Consolidated balance sheet, 4Q11 - 4Q12 (NT$k)
  Item	4Q-2012	3Q-2012	2Q-2012	1Q-2012	4Q-2011
  Current assets	252,288,635	245,325,345	280,880,903	268,123,032	225,260,396
  Long-term investments	23,430,020	23,958,462	23,372,224	23,632,874	24,900,332
  Intangible assets	10,959,569	10,888,854	10,860,551	10,969,136	10,861,563
  Other assets	8,470,613	13,716,536	15,857,773	13,037,884	13,309,563
  Assets	955,034,605	878,651,770	883,906,053	831,890,385	774,264,942
  Current liabilities	142,435,944	119,052,483	211,846,915	126,200,641	117,006,687
  Other liabilities	4,683,472	4,668,446	4,612,926	4,749,096	4,756,211
  Liabilities	229,280,906	201,505,713	253,848,405	168,307,976	142,221,391
  Stockholders' equity	725,753,699	677,146,057	630,057,648	663,582,409	632,043,551

  *Figures are consolidated
  Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes, March 2014

  TSMC: Consolidated income statement, 3Q12 - 3Q13 (NT$k)
  Item	3Q-2013		2Q-2013		1Q-2013		4Q-2012		3Q-2012
  	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales
  Gross sales							132,028,911		143,978,772
  Operating revenue	162,577,034	123.1%	155,886,320	118.1%	132,754,996	100.5%	131,304,626	99.5%	141,375,451	98.2%
  Gross profit (loss) from operations	78,940,570	59.8%	76,418,800	57.9%	60,766,270	46%	61,843,749	46.8%	69,019,378	47.9%
  Operating expenses	19,260,232	14.6%	18,792,134	14.2%	16,376,304	12.4%	15,693,614	11.9%	16,376,880	11.4%
  Operating income (loss)	59,618,054	45.2%	57,629,082	43.6%	44,428,009	33.7%	46,254,675	35%	52,652,879	36.6%
  Non-operating revenues and gains					1,319,905	1%	2,172,396	1.6%	1,231,143	0.9%
  Non-operating expenses and losses	-268,170	-0.2%	0	0%					964,363	0.7%
  Income from continuing operations before income tax	59,349,884	45%	60,016,679	45.5%	45,747,914	34.6%	46,247,420	35%	53,728,546	37.3%
  Net income (loss)	51,934,752	39.3%	51,761,503	39.2%	39,535,543	29.9%	41,484,388	31.4%	49,345,233	34.3%
  Fully-diluted earnings per share (NT$)	2		2		1.5		1.6		1.9
  Simple earnings per share (NT$)									1.9

  *Figures are consolidated
  Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes, March 2014

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