AMD will present its quarterly report tomorrow, while now financial analysts talk about TSMC company - the largest contract chip maker in the world. In the second quarter it was able to increase dollar sales by 24% compared with the previous quarter, and by 16.3% compared to the same quarter last year. Rate of return on the transaction level reached 38.6%, the cumulative value of profit rate reached 49.8%.
In the past quarter, TSMC received from the sale of 28-nm products 37% of revenue. Another 19% of revenue comes 40/45-nm products. Older 65nm technology provided only 15% of revenue. TSMC has already started shipping 20-nanometer chips to its customers by the end of the third quarter of the share of proceeds from their sales will reach 10% of the total, and by the end of the year will rise to 20% of revenue.
The next step will be the development of a 16-nm technology - it will start at the end of the third quarter of next year, but the serial production of the relevant products will be mastered only by 2016. Production of 16-nm technology standards require the use of FinFET-structures. TSMC recognizes that one of the major competitors in the development of more advanced 14-nm process technology. By the way, this may be one of the reasons for switching to working with Qualcomm and Samsung .
Although the release of chips using 10-nm TSMC technology mastered in 2017, the company has forecast that it will raise the speed of transistors by 25% and reduce power consumption by 45% compared to the 16 nm process. The news was received positively the stock market TSMC rose by 6%.