• 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$185.5 on the TSE on Thursday, September 29, 2016.

  The company has reported consolidated revenues of NT$94,311 million for August 2016, representing a 23.5% increase on month and 40.7% increase on year.

  For the second quarter of 2016, the company totaled NT$221,810 million in consolidated revenues, up 9% sequentially and up 8% 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
  30-Sep	42,516	11,542	7,823,055,396	185.50	186.50	182.50	182.50	-3.00	-1.62%	182.50	183.00
  29-Sep	54,268	15,205	10,110,097,765	185.50	187.50	185.50	185.50	+2.50	+1.37%	185.50	186.00
  28-Sep	22,533			183.50	185.00	183.00	183.00	-4.50	-2.40%
  27-Sep	22,533			183.50	185.00	183.00	183.00	-4.50	-2.40%
  26-Sep	23,124	7,877	4,251,159,768	183.50	185.00	183.00	183.00	-4.50	-2.40%	183.00	183.50
  23-Sep	23,141	9,042	4,313,995,664	185.00	187.50	184.50	187.50	+2.00	+1.08%	187.00	187.50
  22-Sep	20,998	8,937	3,882,187,910	185.00	185.50	183.50	185.50	+1.50	+0.82%	185.00	185.50

  • Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes

  Latest sales

  TSMC: Consolidated revenues, Aug 2015 - Aug 2016 (NT$m)
  Month	Sales	M/M	Y/Y	YTD	Y/Y
  Aug-16	94,311	23.5%	40.7%	596,008	3.6%
  Jul-16	76,392	(6.1%)	(5.6%)	501,697	(1.3%)
  Jun-16	81,391	10.6%	35.8%	425,305	(0.5%)
  May-16	73,576	10.1%	4.9%	343,914	(6.4%)
  Apr-16	66,843	(8.6%)	(11.3%)	270,339	(9.1%)
  Mar-16	73,089	22.7%	1.1%	203,495	(8.4%)
  Feb-16	59,551	(16%)	(4.9%)	130,407	(12.9%)
  Jan-16	70,855	21.4%	(18.7%)	70,855	(18.7%)
  Dec-15	58,347	(8%)	(16.1%)	843,497	10.6%
  Nov-15	63,428	(22.4%)	(12.2%)	785,150	13.3%
  Oct-15	81,743	26.7%	1.3%	721,722	16.2%
  Sep-15	64,514	(3.8%)	(13.8%)	639,979	18.5%
  Aug-15	67,038	(17.2%)	(3.2%)	575,465	23.6%

  *Figures are consolidated
  Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes, October 2016

  TSMC: Consolidated revenues, 2Q15 - 2Q16 (NT$m)
  Quarter	Sales	Q/Q	Y/Y	YTD	Y/Y
  2Q-16	221,810	9%	8%	425,305	(0.5%)
  1Q-16	203,495	(0%)	(8.4%)	203,495	(8.4%)
  4Q-15	203,519	(4.2%)	(8.5%)	843,497	10.6%
  3Q-15	212,505	3.4%	1.7%	639,979	18.5%
  2Q-15	205,440	(7.5%)	12.3%	427,474	29.1%

  *Figures are consolidated
  Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes, October 2016

  Latest balance sheet and income statement

  TSMC: Consolidated balance sheet, 2Q15 - 2Q16 (NT$k)
  Item	2Q-2016	1Q-2016	4Q-2015	3Q-2015	2Q-2015
  Current assets	852,525,071	812,491,107	746,743,991	693,661,496	731,368,790
  Intangible assets	14,066,562	13,989,513	14,065,880	13,196,292	12,938,507
  Non-current assets	951,966,489	914,034,529	910,774,307	882,557,314	877,484,276
  Assets	1,804,491,560	1,726,525,636	1,657,518,298	1,576,218,810	1,608,853,066
  Current liabilities	398,739,054	235,893,223	212,228,594	201,689,370	309,379,741
  Non-current liabilities	208,421,528	209,686,337	222,655,225	223,534,496	232,845,770
  Liabilities	607,160,582	445,579,560	434,883,819	425,223,866	542,225,511
  Stockholders' equity	1,197,330,978	1,280,946,076	1,222,634,479	1,150,994,944	1,066,627,555

  *Figures are consolidated
  Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes, October 2016

  TSMC: Consolidated income statement, 2Q15 - 2Q16 (NT$k)
  Item	2Q-2016		1Q-2016		4Q-2015		3Q-2015		2Q-2015
  	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales
  Gross sales					203,518,563		212,504,909		0
  Operating revenue	221,809,846	109%	203,495,361	100%	203,518,563	100%	212,504,909	100%	205,439,752
  Gross profit (loss) from operations	114,341,245	56.2%	91,370,467	44.9%	98,910,526	48.6%	102,316,485	48.1%	99,703,945	48.5%
  Operating expenses	23,007,640	11.3%	20,878,997	10.3%	21,212,612	10.4%	22,160,164	10.4%	22,555,212	11%
  Operating income (loss)	91,321,001	44.9%	70,467,314	34.6%	77,963,670	38.3%	78,388,924	36.9%	77,069,058	37.5%
  Non-operating expenses and losses	2,085,390	1%	1,788,585	0.9%	2,679,959	1.3%	5,005,695	2.4%	21,062,625	10.3%
  Income from continuing operations before income tax	93,406,391	45.9%	72,255,899	35.5%	80,643,629	39.6%	83,394,619	39.2%	98,131,683	47.8%
  Net income (loss)	72,528,279	35.6%	64,792,597	31.8%	72,842,055	35.8%	75,317,300	35.4%	79,412,904	38.7%
  Diluted earnings per share (NT$)	2.8		2.5		2.8		2.9		3.1

  *Figures are consolidated
  Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes, October 2016

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