TSMC

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing business Limited (TSMC; often known as Taiwan Semiconductor) is a multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design business headquartered in Taiwan. It is the world's most valuable semiconductor business, the largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry, and one of Taiwan's largest corporations, with headquarters and principal operations in Hsinchu Science Park. Foreign investors own the majority of the company.

Customers of TSMC include most of the main fabless semiconductor firms, including AMD, Apple, ARM, Broadcom, Marvell, MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Nvidia, as well as rising companies like as Allwinner Technology, HiSilicon, Spectra7, and UNISOC. TSMC's foundry services are also used or used by leading programmable logic device firms Xilinx and, earlier, Altera. Some integrated device manufacturers, such as Intel, NXP, STMicroelectronics, and Texas Instruments, outsource some of their production to TSMC.

The advantage of TSMC stems from years of learning and process development. They understand how to prepare chip designs for production, produce them, and, most critically, troubleshoot the inevitable errors that arise. Most importantly, they can capture and retain all of this knowledge, allowing them to do it all on a massive scale and repeatedly. TSMC has nearly the entire dominance of the semiconductor manufacturing sector, with more than three times the market share of its nearest competitor, Samsung. TSMC also has a significant competitive edge because of its process technology, which allows it to manufacture chips with the highest transistor density, lowest cost, and highest quality on the market.

Founded: 1987
Headquarters: Hsinchu, Taiwan
Website: https://www.tsmc.com/