The decline in the smartphone market in China and the general weakness of the world economy minimized the expected growth of the semiconductor industry in 2015, but next year TSMC company hopes to return to a positive double-digit, outpacing the industry average. This assured the President and Co-Executive Director Mark Liu TSMC.
In addition to the optimistic forecasts, Liu announced the readiness of the second quarter of 2016 technology 16FFC (16 nm FinFET Compact), which was developed specifically for the production of solutions used in smart phones, handheld devices and the Internet of things. Liu also said that the technology of 10 nm FinFET will be ready for mass production in the fourth quarter of 2016 and in the first quarter of 2017. TSMC will start trial production of products using the technology of 7 nm FinFET.
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