TSMC management admitted at a quarterly event that demand for the company’s 6nm and 7nm contract manufacturing services was lower than projected three months ago. The situation will last until the middle of the year, and in the second half of...
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At the last quarterly conference, TSMC’s management confirmed that the company’s revenues from the shipment of 3nm products will only reach meaningful levels in the second quarter, although the formal mass production of chips of this...
This week, Taiwanese company TSMC opened its earnings season, and its status as a leader in custom chip manufacturing services allows it to adequately forecast trends characteristic of the entire semiconductor industry. Management forecast a 4%...
In the last few weeks of last year, lively rumors circulated about the interest of the Taiwanese TSMC in setting up a company for custom manufacturing of chips in Europe, in Germany. Speaking to analysts on today’s quarterly conference call...
Taiwanese contract chipmaker TSMC said last quarter that weak demand for its PC and smartphone products is forcing it to cut its capital expenditure by 10% to $36 billion in 2022 current year will not exceed 32 billion US dollars in a pessimistic...
In May last year, Samsung Electronics showed US President Joseph Biden samples of 3nm products during his visit to South Korea, and by the end of June the company had ramped up mass production and started shipping the chips to one of its Chinese...
The increased focus on TSMC’s increased investments in the US prompted the company to hold an opening ceremony for a new production line at Tainan Technopark in the southwest of the island, which has been mass-producing 3nm products but also...
Intel’s long-standing and expanding facility near the Arizona capital, but it was TSMC’s project to build two state-of-the-art facilities north of Phoenix that drew significant investment and human resources to the region. 14,500 jobs...
Earlier this month, TSMC held an event to mark the start of construction of a semiconductor fab in Arizona, and today the Taiwan company celebrated the start of mass production of chips on the island. It is noteworthy that such ceremonies are quite...
Tesla has placed an order for 4nm chips with Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC, confirming a four-month-old rumor that Tesla had chosen between Samsung and TSMC in favor of the latter company, according to the latest data. The chips are to be used in...
For a long time, the TSMC management did not want to comment directly on rumors about a planned location in Germany, but now the Financial Times reports that at the beginning of next year a delegation of representatives from the Taiwanese contract...
At an industry event this week, TSMC CEO CC Wei denounced the decoupling trend between China and the United States, which is stifling the development of the semiconductor industry and driving up costs. Incidentally, he explained that the...
This week, TSMC executives expressed optimism about the prospects for a semiconductor contract manufacturing business for US customers as the two Arizona facilities hit a $40 billion construction budget and tripled their construction capacity. The...
Already after the announcement of the leadership of the Taiwanese company TSMC to invest up to 40 billion US dollars in the construction of two companies in the state of Arizona by 2026, a ceremony took place with the participation of the American...
Taiwan-based TSMC, in anticipation of today’s ceremony marking the start of equipment installation at its first Arizona facility, issued a statement of its future plans to expand that manufacturing facility. Investment in the project will...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has made no secret of his interest in acquiring chips from TSMC’s under-construction facility in Arizona and is expected to attend a closing ceremony for the manufacturing facility this week. According to sources, NVIDIA...
Until now, it was assumed that TSMC’s Arizona facility, currently under construction, would focus on 5nm products until production starts in 2024, which would be issued at a rate of 20,000 silicon wafers per month. Now, informed sources say...
The meeting of Chinese and US top leaders was aimed at easing tensions over the Taiwan issue. A significant portion of semiconductor components are manufactured in Taiwan, and stability in the region is extremely important to the overall global...
Arguments that semiconductor components should become cheaper with the transition to “thinner” process technology do not take into account current industry realities, which point to an increase in manufacturing costs as the size of transistors on a...
For the past week, various analysts have been actively discussing the published information about Warren Buffett’s multi-billion dollar investment in shares of the Taiwanese company TSMC. The deal took place in the third quarter, but has only...
