Everything about Tsmc totally explained
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (
Traditional Chinese: 台灣積體電路製造股份有限公司, abbrev. TSMC) 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 August 2007 is
US$52.13 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.
Facilities
- One six-inch (150 mm) wafer fab in full operation (Fab 2)
- Five eight-inch (200 mm) wafer fabs in full operation (Fabs 3, 5, 6, 7, 8)
- Two 12-inch (300 mm) wafer fabs in production (Fabs 12, 14)
- TSMC (Shanghai)
- WaferTech, TSMC's wholly owned subsidiary eight-inch (200 mm) fab in Camas, Washington, USA
- SSMC (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 TSMC is also planning to build another fab.
WaferTech
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 facility employs 1100 workers.
History
WaferTech was established 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 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 8 inch (200 mm) 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 facilities in Washington state
WaferTech is based in Camas, Washington, 20 miles (30 km) outside of
Portland,
Oregon. The WaferTech campus contains a 1 million square foot (90,000 m²) complex housed on 260 acres (1 km²). The main fabrication facility consists of a 130,000 square feet (12,000 m²) 8 inch (200 mm) wafer fabrication plant.
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