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Monday 19 October 2009
Global chip market may stage full recovery earlier than expected in 2011, says TSMC chairman
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) expects its 2010 sales to surpass 2008 in line with the industry's recovery, chairman and CEO Morris Chang said at a company event...
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Foundry sales to increase nearly twice as fast as total IC industry, says IC Insights
Foundry IC sales will grow at nearly twice the rate of the overall IC industry over the next five years, according to IC Insights, adding that both pure-play and IDM foundry sales...
Tuesday 13 October 2009
TSMC, UMC expected to hike capex in 2010
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) are expected to implement aggressive capex plans for 2010, when the semiconductor market...
Tuesday 13 October 2009
TSMC may set up thin-film PV plant at CTSP
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) may establish a photovoltaic (PV) production base on an 18-hectare site in the Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP) to produce thin-film...
Monday 12 October 2009
MID demand most likely to be fulfilled by smartphones, says The Information Network
Intel's Atom processor is being redesigned as a system on a chip (SoC) and will be manufactured by TSMC in an effort to win the mobile Internet device (MID) market. But the investment...
Monday 12 October 2009
ASML upbeat on micro-lithography growth
Customers have turned more active in placing orders, according to Antonio Mesquida Kusters, Director of Market Intelligence for ASML. Citing predictions by research firms, Kusters...
Friday 9 October 2009
TSMC posts revenue drop for September 2009
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced revenues of NT$28.02 billion (US$870 million) for September 2009, down 3% on month and 0.8% on year.
Wednesday 7 October 2009
IMEC, TSMC team up for miniaturized designs
IMEC, a Belgium-based research center in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on October 6 jointly announced the extension of...
Tuesday 6 October 2009
Number of major chip foundries to be less in 2010, says iSuppli
Although the global semiconductor foundry market is set to make a welcome return to growth in 2010 after a terrible 2009, the recent downturn is likely to thin the ranks of the top-tier...
Friday 2 October 2009
TSMC maintains 18-inch wafer tape-out in 2012
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will maintain its plans to begin trial production on 18-inch wafers in 2012 despite a conservative outlook prevailing across most...
Wednesday 30 September 2009
TSMC to see better-than-expected 4Q09
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to see revenues for the fourth quarter remain flat or increase by low single-digits sequentially, according to market...
Tuesday 29 September 2009
Former TSMC R&D executive joins Samsung
Samsung Electronics has employed Mong-Song Liang, who formerly served as senior director of the Logic Technology Platform Division at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC),...
Tuesday 29 September 2009
TSMC veteran resumes R&D helm
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on September 28 announced the appointment of Shang-Yi Chiang, a former TSMC vice president of R&D, as its senior VP of R&D...
Monday 28 September 2009
TSMC recruiting staff for PV business
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has taken a further step in developing its new photovoltaic (PV) business by recruiting PV technical staff, including engineers in...
Monday 28 September 2009
AppliedMicro-TSMC partner on embedded processors
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AppliedMicro, formerly AMCC) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have jointly announced a collaboration enabling AppliedMicro's...