TSMC again tops list of invention patent filings
‘CEMENTING ITS LEAD’: The chipmaker filed more than 1,000 patents for the second time, the IP office said. It was followed by Acer Inc, AU Optronics and Realtek
Staff writer, with CNA
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) applied for the most patents among all of the nation’s companies last year for a fifth consecutive year, the Intellectual Property Office of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said on Wednesday last week.
Data compiled by the office showed that TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, filed 1,096 patent applications for new inventions.
Smartphone chip designer Qualcomm Inc ranked as the top foreign patent applicant in Taiwan with 720 invention patent applications, the office said.
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Men decide, women follow” was the traditional Chinese model. If visitors called, and only a woman was present, she might answer that “
independent identity. They were appendages to the patrilineal clan.
There were young men with their lives ahead of them, the world at their feet, their hopes high.. [But] a girl belonged to a man, Wong Su-ling’s autobiography.
Patrilocality meant that a bride relocated to live with her husband’s family. Men lived on family land, supported by their family and village. Women did gain status once they had produced sons for the lineage, but a young bride was an outsider with no claim to resources. Moreover, she was closely policed by her husband’s kin, so had little autonomy. As Tang
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One of the necessary means that China employs against Taiwan is forcing the Taiwanese air force to be on constant alert. It is part of a strategy known as gray-zone warfare that aims to intimidate and ultimately exhaust Taiwan s resolve to resist the Chinese takeover. Tensions in the region are now considered to be at their highest since the mid-1990s.
More recently, China has expanded its operations against Taiwan from the air to the sea.
The new law authorizes China s coast guard to use all necessary means to stop or prevent threats from foreign vessels, including the use of fire weapons.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC, 台積電) largest customer accounted for 25 percent of its total revenue last year. Analysts believe the unnamed company to be Apple Inc.
The world’s largest contract chipmaker generated NT$336.78 billion (US$11.9 billion) in consolidated sales from its largest customer last year, accounting for about 25 percent of the total, financial data provided by TSMC showed.
With TSMC believed to be the sole processor supplier for Apple’s iPhone 12, analysts said the largest customer is likely the US consumer electronics giant, which drove the chipmaker’s sales growth.
TSMC did not identify the customer.
TSMC last year posted