Taiwanese semiconductor foundry company
TSMC Global R&D Center at night
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC or Taiwan Semiconductor )[4] [5] is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world's second-most valuable semiconductor company,[6] the world's largest dedicated independent ("pure-play ") semiconductor foundry ,[7] and its country's largest company,[8] [9] with headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu , Taiwan. The majority of TSMC is owned by foreign investors,[10] and the central government of Taiwan is the largest shareholder.[11] In 2023, the company was ranked 44th in the Forbes Global 2000 .[12]
Taiwan's exports of integrated circuits amounted to $184 billion in 2022, accounted for nearly 25 percent of Taiwan's GDP. TSMC constitutes about 30 percent of the Taiwan Stock Exchange 's main index.[13] [14]
TSMC was founded in Taiwan in 1987 by Morris Chang as the world's first dedicated semiconductor foundry. It has long been the leading company in its field.[15] [16] When Chang retired in 2018, after 31 years of TSMC leadership, Mark Liu became chairman and C. C. Wei became Chief Executive.[17] [18] 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). Since 1994, TSMC has had a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.4% in revenue and a CAGR of 16.1% in earnings.[19]
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 .[20] Leading programmable logic device companies Xilinx and previously Altera also make or made use of TSMC's foundry services.[21] 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.[22] [23] At least one semiconductor company, LSI , re-sells TSMC wafers through its ASIC design services and design IP portfolio.[dubious – discuss ]
TSMC has a global capacity of about thirteen million 300 mm-equivalent wafers per year as of 2020 and produces chips for customers with process nodes from 2 microns to 3 nanometres . 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 ASML 's extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology in high volume.
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