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WORLD’S LARGEST: The local chipmaker’s Q3 figure is expected to surpass its South Korean rival, which is affected by a memorychip slumpBy Lisa Wang / Staff Reporter
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) yesterday raised its revenue growth forecast for this year to 35 percent after reporting record-high quarterly net profits.
Net profit last quarter hit NT$237.03 billion (US$7.93 billion), up 76.4 percent from a year earlier and 16.9 percent from the previous quarter.
The sole chip supplier of Apple Inc’s iPhones in April estimated that revenue would expand by a percentage in the mid-to-high 20s in US dollar terms this year, driven primarily by chips used in high-performance-computing (HPC) applications, such as servers and data centers.
HPC applications have replaced smartphones to become the biggest revenue contributor to
UNFAZED: Despite an ongoing inventory correction, the chipmaker said its capacity remains tight as demand for select products remains resilientBy Lisa Wang / Staff reporter
By Chen Cheng-hui / Staff reporterTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co （TSMC, 台積電） is recruiting Taiwanese technicians without a university degree or related experience to work at its planned plant in Arizona, media reports said last week.