According to reports, in May 2014 Apple sourced its A8 and A8X SoCs from TSMC. In 2011, it was reported that TSMC had begun trial production of the A5 SoC and A6 SoCs for Apple's iPad and iPhone devices. In August 2014, TSMC's board of directors approved additional capital appropriations of US$3.05 billion. In May 2014, TSMC's board of directors approved capital appropriations of US$568 million to increase and improve manufacturing capabilities after the company forecast higher than expected demand. The company also planned to expand capacity by 30% in 2011 to meet strong market demand. In 2011, the company planned to increase research and development expenditures by almost 39% to NT$50 billion to fend off growing competition. Since then, the company has continued to grow, albeit subject to the cycles of demand. From day one, TSMC wasn’t really a private business: it was a project of the Taiwanese state. “What generally happened was that one of the ministers in the government would call a businessman in Taiwan,” Chang explained, “to get him to invest.” The government asked several of the island’s wealthiest families, who owned firms that specialized in plastics, textiles, and chemicals, to put up the money. The Taiwanese government provided another 48 percent of the startup capital for TSMC and the rest of the capital was raised from wealthy Taiwanese who were “asked” by the government to invest. Only Philips was willing to sign a joint venture contract with Taiwan to put up $58 million, transfer its production technology, and license intellectual property in exchange for a 27.5 percent stake in TSMC. At that time, the Taiwanese government wanted to develop its semiconductor industry, but its high investment and high risk nature made it difficult to find investors. In 1986, Li Kwoh-ting, representing the Executive Yuan, invited Morris Chang to serve as the president of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). TSMC was the first foundry to market 7-nanometre and 5-nanometre (used by the 2020 Apple A14 and M1 SoCs, the MediaTek Dimensity 8100, and AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors) production capabilities, and the first to commercialize extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology in high volume. TSMC has a global capacity of about thirteen million 300 mm-equivalent wafers per year as of 2020 and makes chips for customers with process nodes from 2 microns to 5 nanometres. At least one semiconductor company, LSI, re-sells TSMC wafers through its ASIC design services and design IP portfolio. Some integrated device manufacturers that have their own fabrication facilities, such as Intel, NXP, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments, outsource some of their production to TSMC. Leading programmable logic device companies Xilinx and previously Altera also make or made use of TSMC's foundry services. Most of the leading fabless semiconductor companies such as AMD, Apple, ARM, Broadcom, Marvell, MediaTek, Qualcomm and Nvidia, are customers of TSMC, as are emerging companies such as Allwinner Technology, HiSilicon, Spectra7, and UNISOC. Since 1994, TSMC has had a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.4% in revenue and a CAGR of 16.1% in earnings. It has been listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE: 2330) since 1993 in 1997 it became the first Taiwanese company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TSM). When Chang retired in 2018, after 31 years of TSMC leadership, Mark Liu became chairman and C. įounded in Taiwan in 1987 by Morris Chang, TSMC was the world's first dedicated semiconductor foundry and has long been the leading company in its field. It is majority owned by foreign investors, and the central government of Taiwan is the largest shareholder. It is the world's second most valuable semiconductor company, the world's largest dedicated independent (" pure-play") semiconductor foundry, and its country's largest company, with headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited ( TSMC also called Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. T'ai 2-wan 1 Chi 1-t'i 3 Tien 4-lu 4 Chih 4-tsao 4 Ku 3-fen 4 You 3-hsien 4 Kung 1-ssŭ 1 Táiwān Jītǐ Diànlù Zhìzào Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī
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