Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, better known as TSMC, is going to invest a large sum in the expansion of its production facilities. It is reported by the Taiwanese business publication DigiTimes, citing its own sources in the industry.
According to the newspaper, the management TSMC plans to spend about $ 3.05 billion for the modernization of production, increased capacity and production capacity. However, the details of the future cash inflows are still unknown. It is possible that all of these investments are related to obtaining a large order from one of the partners. It is possible that this will be the largest customer of the American company Apple. There is an opinion that TSMC already produces A8 processors for new Apple mobile devices, and it also got an order to produce SoC A9, which starts next year. It is quite a collaboration with TSMC and NVIDIA company , which, however, does not exclude that in the future the Taiwanese manufacturer can become not only its contractor.
The head of TSMC Morris Chang (Morris Chang) recently said that in the last few years, 40-50% of the total revenue the company receives orders from performing its five largest customers. Moreover, the three customer recently changed the structure of their orders.