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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (Traditional Chinese: ??????????????, abbrev. TSMC) is the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor
Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has electrical conductivity between those of a Electrical conductor and an electrical insulation; it can vary over that wide range either permanently or dynamically....
 foundry
Foundry (electronics)

In the microelectronics industry, a semiconductor fabrication plant is a factory where devices such as integrated circuits are manufactured.A business that operates a semiconductor fab for the purpose of fabricating the designs of other companies, such as fabless semiconductor company, is known as a foundry....
, with its headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park
Hsinchu Science Park

Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park was established by the government of Taiwan, Republic of China on December 15, 1980 with investment from the Kuomintang....
 in Hsinchu
Hsinchu

Hsinchu City is a city in northern Taiwan. Hsinzhu is popularly nicknamed "The Windy City" for its windy climate.Hsinchu City is administered as a provincial city of Taiwan Province in the Republic of China....
, Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
. TSMC's market capitalization
Market capitalization

Market capitalization/capitalisation is a measurement of corporate or economic wealth equal to the share price times the number of shares outstanding of a public company....
 as of 1 January 2009 is US$
United States dollar

The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States and was defined by the Coinage Act of 1792 to be between 371 and 416 grains of silver ....
40.4 billion.

Although TSMC offers a variety of wafer product-lines (high-voltage, mixed-signal, analog), TSMC is best known for its logic product-line.






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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (Traditional Chinese: ??????????????, abbrev. TSMC) is the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor
Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has electrical conductivity between those of a Electrical conductor and an electrical insulation; it can vary over that wide range either permanently or dynamically....
 foundry
Foundry (electronics)

In the microelectronics industry, a semiconductor fabrication plant is a factory where devices such as integrated circuits are manufactured.A business that operates a semiconductor fab for the purpose of fabricating the designs of other companies, such as fabless semiconductor company, is known as a foundry....
, with its headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park
Hsinchu Science Park

Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park was established by the government of Taiwan, Republic of China on December 15, 1980 with investment from the Kuomintang....
 in Hsinchu
Hsinchu

Hsinchu City is a city in northern Taiwan. Hsinzhu is popularly nicknamed "The Windy City" for its windy climate.Hsinchu City is administered as a provincial city of Taiwan Province in the Republic of China....
, Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
. TSMC's market capitalization
Market capitalization

Market capitalization/capitalisation is a measurement of corporate or economic wealth equal to the share price times the number of shares outstanding of a public company....
 as of 1 January 2009 is US$
United States dollar

The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States and was defined by the Coinage Act of 1792 to be between 371 and 416 grains of silver ....
40.4 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 Qualcomm
Qualcomm

Qualcomm is a wireless telecommunications research and development company based in San Diego, California, California.Corporate history...
, AMD
Advanced Micro Devices

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is an United States multinational corporation semiconductor industry company based in Sunnyvale, California, that develops Central processing unit and related technologies for commercial and consumer markets....
, Altera
Altera

Altera Corporation are a major manufacturer of high-end PLDs . Altera's main products are the Cyclone and Stratix series of FPGAs , the MAX series of CPLDs , the Hardcopy series of structured ASICs and the Quartus II software....
, Broadcom
Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is an United States supplier of integrated circuits for broadband communications. Founded in 1991 by Henry Samueli and Henry T....
, Conexant
Conexant

Conexant Systems Inc. is a publicly listed United States semiconductor company, which was formerly the semiconductor division of Rockwell International....
, Intel
Intel Corporation

Intel Corporation is the world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the X86 architecture series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers....
, Marvell
Marvell Technology Group

Marvell is an USA producer of storage, Telecommunications and consumer semiconductor products. Their products can be found in a range of applications:...
, NVIDIA
NVIDIA

Nvidia is a multinational corporation specializing in the manufacture of graphics processing unit technologies for workstations, desktop computers, and mobile devices....
, and VIA
VIA Technologies

VIA Technologies is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, Central processing unit, and computer memory, and is part of the Formosa Plastics Group....
 are customers of TSMC.

At least one semiconductor company, LSI Logic, re-sells TSMC wafers through its ASIC
ASIC

The acronym ASIC, depending on context, may stand for:* Application-specific integrated circuit, an integrated circuit customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use...
 design services and design IP-portfolio.

Facilities

  • One 150 mm (5.9 inches) wafer fab in full operation (Fab 2)
  • Five 200 mm (7.9 inches) wafer fabs in full operation (Fabs 3, 5, 6, 7, 8)
  • Two 300 mm (11.9 inches) wafer fabs in production (Fabs 12, 14)
  • TSMC (Shanghai)
  • WaferTech, TSMC's wholly owned subsidiary 200 mm fab in Camas
    Camas, Washington

    Camas is a city in Clark County, Washington, Washington, United States, with a population of 12,534 at the 2000 United States Census. Officially incorporated on June 18, 1906, the city is named after the camas lily, a plant with an onion-like bulb prized by Native Americans....
    , Washington
    Washington

    Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....
    , USA
  • SSMC
    SSMC

    Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Co. Pte. Ltd. is presently a joint venture of NXP Semiconductors and TSMC. It was originally founded by Philips, TSMC and the Economic Development Board Investments Pte Ltd....
     (Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Co.), a joint venture with NXP Semiconductors in Singapore which has also brought increased capacity since the end of 2002


According to Taipei Times
Taipei Times

The Taipei Times is one of the three major English language-language newspapers in the Republic of China , the other two being the Taiwan News and The China Post....
 TSMC is also planning to build another fab.

WaferTech subsidiary


WaferTech, a subsidiary of TSMC, 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 facility employs 1100 workers.

WaferTech was established in June 1996 as a joint-venture with TSMC, Altera, Analog Devices
Analog Devices

Analog Devices is an United States Multinational corporation producer of semiconductor devices. Analog specializes in analog-to-digital converter, digital-to-analog converter, MEMS, and digital signal processing chips for consumer and industrial goods....
, and ISSI as key partners. The four companies along with minor individual investors invested US$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 200 mm (7.9 inch) semiconductor fabrication plant. Its first product was a 0.35 micrometre 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.

WaferTech is based in Camas, Washington, 20 miles (30 km) outside of Portland
Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States United States, near the confluence of the Willamette River and Columbia River rivers in the state of Oregon....
, Oregon
Oregon

Oregon is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The area was inhabited by many indigenous tribes before the arrival of traders, explorers and settlers....
. The WaferTech campus contains a 1 million square foot (90,000 mē) complex housed on 260 acres (1 kmē). The main fabrication facility consists of a 130,000 square feet (12,000 mē) 200 mm (7.9 inch) wafer fabrication plant.

TSMC Design Technology Canada

TSMC Design Technology Canada has been a part of the TSMC family since August 1, 2007. It is Located at 349 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata, ON.

See also

  • Very-large-scale integration
    Very-large-scale integration

    Very-large-scale integration is the process of creating integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistor-based circuits into a single chip....
  • List of companies in Taiwan


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