SectorSemiconductor Products and Equipment
Established Date21/02/1987
Listing Date08/10/1997
ExchangeNew York Stock Exchange
Full-time Employees85134
Fiscal Year Ends31/12
Security TypeDepository Receipts (Ordinary Shares)
Office addressNo.8., Li-Hsin Road 6, Hsinchu Science Park, Hsin-Chu 300-096, Taiwan, China
BusinessTo manufacture and sell integrated circuits and other wafer semiconductor devices according to customers' orders and product design instructions provided by them; to provide packaging and testing services for the aforementioned products, computer-aided design technical services for integrated circuits; to provide manufacturing and design services for photomasks
IntroductionTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, a joint venture of the Taiwan Provincial Government of China, Philips Corporation and other private investors, was incorporated in Taiwan Province of China on February 21, 1987. The company is currently the largest LED wafer foundry in the global semiconductor industry. As a foundry, the company manufactures semiconductors for customers based on their own or third-party proprietary integrated circuit designs using their manufacturing processes. The company offers a comprehensive range of wafer manufacturing processes, including those for manufacturing CMOS logic, mixed-signal, RF, embedded memory, BiCMOS mixed-signal and other semiconductors. The company also provides design, mask making, detection, testing and assembly services.