Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC), established in 1987 with its headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is best known for dedicated semiconductor foundry business, which is the manufacturer of integrated circuits (ICs) for customers based on their own or third parties' IC designs.

The Company's chips are used in computer products, communications products and consumer electronic products. Various fabless high-tech companies such as Qualcomm, Altera, Broadcom, Conexant, Marvell, NVIDIA, and VIA are customers of TSMC.

Performance

The company's stock price closed at NT$142.5 on the TSE on Monday, March 30, 2015.

The company has reported consolidated revenues of NT$62,645 million for February 2015, representing a 28.1% drop on month and 33.8% increase on year.

For the third quarter of 2014, the company totaled NT$209,050 million in consolidated revenues, up 14.2% sequentially and up 28.6% on year.

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