• 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$120 on the TSE on Thursday, April 17, 2014.

  The company has reported consolidated revenues of NT$49,956 million for March 2014, representing a 6.7% increase on month and 13.2% increase on year.

  For the fourth quarter of 2013, the company totaled NT$145,806 million in consolidated revenues, down 10.3% sequentially and up 10.6% 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$259.28 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
  18-Apr	32,921	9,515	4,023,630,870	122.50	123.00	121.00	123.00	+3.00	+2.50%	123.00	122.50
  17-Apr	35,878	9,149	4,309,377,620	120.50	121.50	119.00	120.00	-1.00	-0.83%	120.00	119.50
  16-Apr	50,065	10,986	6,085,393,016	121.50	122.50	121.00	121.00	-1.50	-1.22%	121.50	121.00
  15-Apr	28,647	9,838	3,488,642,908	121.50	122.50	121.00	122.50	+2.00	+1.66%	122.50	122.00
  14-Apr	30,388	8,737	3,658,391,080	120.00	121.00	120.00	120.50	+0.50	+0.42%	120.50	120.00
  11-Apr	34,848	7,639	4,153,152,840	118.50	120.00	118.00	120.00	+0.50	+0.42%	120.00	119.50

  • Source: TSE, compiled by Digitimes

  Latest sales

  TSMC: Consolidated revenues, Mar 2013 - Mar 2014 (NT$m)
  Month	Sales	M/M	Y/Y	YTD	Y/Y
  Mar-14	49,956	6.7%	13.2%	148,215	11.7%
  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%

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

  TSMC: Consolidated revenues, 4Q12 - 4Q13 (NT$m)
  Quarter	Sales	Q/Q	Y/Y	YTD	Y/Y
  4Q-13	145,806	(10.3%)	10.6%	597,024	17.8%
  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	0.7%	25.8%	132,755	25.8%
  4Q-12	131,801	(6.8%)	25.9%	506,745	18.7%

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

  Latest balance sheet and income statement

  TSMC: Consolidated balance sheet, 4Q12 - 4Q13 (NT$k)
  Item	4Q-2013	3Q-2013	2Q-2013	1Q-2013	4Q-2012
  Current assets	358,486,654	338,210,837	352,462,353	297,751,192	250,325,436
  Intangible assets	11,490,383	11,393,280	11,142,323	11,478,437	10,959,569
  Non-current assets	904,568,323	839,329,378	817,423,101	763,878,534	711,029,072
  Assets	1,263,054,977	1,177,540,215	1,169,885,454	1,061,629,726	961,354,508
  Current liabilities	189,777,934	148,284,188	243,631,467	158,206,324	148,473,947
  Non-current liabilities	225,501,958	225,081,266	180,017,716	134,774,317	89,786,655
  Liabilities	415,279,892	373,365,454	423,649,183	292,980,641	238,260,602
  Stockholders' equity	847,775,085	804,174,761	746,236,271	768,649,085	723,093,906

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

  TSMC: Consolidated income statement, 4Q12 - 4Q13 (NT$k)
  Item	4Q-2013		3Q-2013		2Q-2013		1Q-2013		4Q-2012
  	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales	NT$k	% of sales
  Gross sales									132,028,911
  Operating revenue	145,805,847	110.4%	162,577,034	123.1%	155,886,320	118.1%	132,754,996	100.5%	131,304,626	99.5%
  Gross profit (loss) from operations	64,840,737	49.1%	78,940,570	59.8%	76,418,800	57.9%	60,766,270	46%	61,843,749	46.8%
  Operating expenses	17,134,564	13%	19,260,232	14.6%	18,792,134	14.2%	16,376,304	12.4%	15,693,614	11.9%
  Operating income (loss)	47,754,218	36.2%	59,618,054	45.2%	57,629,082	43.6%	44,428,009	33.7%	46,254,675	35%
  Non-operating revenues and gains							1,319,905	1%	2,172,396	1.6%
  Non-operating expenses and losses	2,618,427	2%	-268,170	-0.2%	0	0%			-105,359	-0.1%
  Income from continuing operations before income tax	50,372,645	38.2%	59,349,884	45%	60,016,679	45.5%	45,747,914	34.6%	46,247,420	35%
  Net income (loss)	44,787,139	33.9%	51,934,752	39.3%	51,761,503	39.2%	39,535,543	29.9%	41,484,388	31.4%
  Diluted earnings per share (NT$)	1.7		2		2		1.5		1.6

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

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