Take a look at Motorola, National Semiconductor, TSMC, Applied Materials, Williams Communications and others in chips and telecom.
More advanced process nodes will be introduced as TSMC's technology development continues to advance.
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Intel can become a contract manufacturer and produce chips for other companies like TSMC.
GlobalFoundries, a foundry similar to TSMC, is making cautious statements of support for now.
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Tight capacity at its manufacturing partner, TSMC, forced it to offer disappointing earnings expectations.
That move edges Intel towards territory long-dominated by chip foundries such as TSMC and Globalfoundries.
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The shares to be issued to Intel, TSMC and Samsung will be non-voting except in exceptional circumstances.
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Investors in Santa Clara-based SiliconBlue include BlueRunVentures, Crosslink Capital, NEA, Apex Venture Partners, TSMC and Atlantic Bridge.
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The groundbreaking ceremony was conducted by TSMC Chairman and CEO Dr. Morris Chang.
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It designs chips and has them done out by either TSMC or Globalfoundries, the second largest foundry after TSMC.
Unlike Intel, AMD outsources the production of its processors to TSMC and GlobalFoundries.
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And TSMC seems to be the most likely fab doing it for them.
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By 2009 another global financial crisis hit, and TSMC barely made money in the first quarter of that year.
Tseng, now TSMC vice chairman, who at the time headed research at ITRI.
TSMC, unlike Intel, has benefited from close ties to a number of winners from the wireless boom, including Qualcomm and Broadcom.
From a customer perspective, working with TSMC can be trying at times.
Older industry giants like Philips and AMD turned to TSMC, too.
Since his return Chang has led TSMC to its best performance ever.
Meanwhile, rivals Samsung and TSMC are rumored to be getting ready, with their own investments, to take a seat at this very expensive table.
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There has been a lot of speculation that Apple plans to move some of its production from Samsung to TSMC and possibly Intel.
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Ho also said the second quarter also looks promising for TSMC.
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The leaders are companies like Apple (chips and systems), Samsung (chips and systems), Google (operating system), Qualcomm (chips), ARM (chip designs), TSMC (foundry), and Globalfoundries (foundry).
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In addition, to meet strong customer demand as we build Fab 15, TSMC will continue to expand capacity at Fab 12 in Hsinchu and Fab 14 in Tainan.
ENGADGET: TSMC begins construction of new $9.3b foundry, wants to sate our constant hunger for chips
TSMC's goal is to reach zero emissions of greenhouse gases.
ENGADGET: TSMC begins construction of new $9.3b foundry, wants to sate our constant hunger for chips
One final piece of the competitive puzzle for TSMC is the economic inflection point that the chip business is approaching as transistor shrinkage increasingly encounters the limitations of physics.
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TSMC's revenue growth will, sooner or later, lead to higher costs as well, because in the semiconductor business sales, raw materials and capital equipment are all priced in dollars.
Fab 15 will be TSMC's third GigafabTM, or fab with capacity of more than 100, 000 12-inch wafers per month, and will also be TSMC's second GigafabTM equipped for 28nm technology.
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As part of the program, Intel, TSMC and Samsung will each acquire ASML shares, equal to an aggregate 23 percent minority equity stake in ASML for EUR 3.85 billion in cash.
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Analysts say TSMC is in a good position to boost its ties to Apple, which in the past has outsourced chips to rival Samsung but believed ready to move its business elsewhere.
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China Times reports that orders for TSMC's 28nm silicon are lined up to as far out as late Q3, courtesy of demand for ARM processors, baseband chips, graphics processors and x86 processors.
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