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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC)
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Type Public limited
Founded 1987 at the Industrial Technology Research Institute
Headquarters Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan
Key people CEO: Rick Tsai, Chairman: Dr Morris Chang
Industry Semiconductor Foundry
Products Silicon Wafers
Revenue image:green up.pngNT$8.38 billion (2005) [1]
Net income image:green up.pngNT$2.92 billion (2005) [2]
Parent Philips 19.1%
Website www.tsmc.com

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (Traditional Chinese: 台灣積體電路製造股份有限公司, abbrev. TSMC) NYSE: TSM LSE: TMSD is the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry, with its headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan. TSMC's market capitalization as of 24 January 2006 is US$49.23 billion.

Although TSMC offers a variety of wafer product-lines (high-voltage, mixed-signal, analog), TSMC is best known for its logic product-line. Various fabless high-tech companies such as ATI, Broadcom, Conexant, Marvell, NVIDIA, and VIA are customers of TSMC.

At least one semiconductor company, LSI Logic, re-sells TSMC wafers through its ASIC design services and design IP-portfolio.

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[edit] Facilities

  • One six-inch wafer fab in full operation (Fab 2)
  • Five eight-inch wafer fabs in full operation (Fabs 3, 5, 6, 7, 8)
  • Two 12-inch wafer fabs in production (Fabs 12, 14)
  • TSMC (Shanghai)
  • WaferTech, TSMC's wholly owned subsidiary eight-inch fab in Camas, Washington, USA
  • A joint venture with NXP Semiconductor(SSMC) which has also brought increased capacity since the end of 2002

According to Taipei Times TSMC is also planning to build another fab.

[edit] WaferTech

[edit] Company Information

WaferTech is a pure-play semiconductor foundry located in Camas, Washington, U.S.A. It is the largest pure-play foundry in the United States. The company employs 1100 workers.

[edit] History

WaferTech was establised in June 1996 as a joint-venture with TSMC, Altera, Analog Devices, and ISSI as key partners. The four companies along with minor individual investors invested $1.2 billion dollars into this venture, which was at the time the single largest startup investment in the state of Washington. The company started production in July 1998 in its 8 inch semiconductor fabrication plant. Its first product was a 0.35 micron part for Altera.

TSMC bought out the joint venture partners in 2000 and acquired full control, and currently operates it as a fully-owned subsidiary.[1]

[edit] WaferTech facilities in Washington state

WaferTech is based in Camas, Washington, 20 miles outside of Portland, Oregon. The WaferTech campus contains a 1-million square foot complex housed on 260 acres. The main fabrication facility consists of a 130,000 square-feet 8 inch wafer fabrication plant.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ The New York Times, December 15, 2000 – Company News; Chip maker is buying out three WaferTech partners
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