Alternating quarterly announcements opens contract manufacturer TSMC's semiconductor products. Compared with the third quarter of last year, TSMC's managed to increase its revenues by 22.5% and net profit rose by 28.4%. Compared with the previous quarter this year, revenue increased by 17.4%, and net profit - by 33.4%. For such a dynamic TSMC guidance thanks smartphone market, , the company provides sixty percent of revenue. However, within five years, according to the company's management, in a leading position will the components market for high-performance computing (HPC) - I suppose we are talking about server components and all sorts of calculations accelerators. Capacity Market HPC representatives TSMC estimated at $ 15 billion.
TSMC expects that in the near future the smart phone market will continue to provide substantial support to the company. For example, TSMC average product content in the smartphone will increase in monetary terms from $ 9 this year to $ 10 in the next. At the end of this year, TSMC expects to increase revenues by 10%, which is not only better than the results of potential competitors (+ 9%), but significantly better than the industry average.
The first proceeds from the sale of 16-nm and 20-nm products in the structure of TSMC cash flows exceeded the performance of other technical processes. A recent leader in the person of a 28-nm process technology content with 24% of revenues and 16/20-nm process technology provides 31% of revenue. However, TSMC's predicts a long life of the conveyor 28-nm process technology, as it will allow more long years to produce low-cost microprocessors for a variety of applications where important cost and moderate power consumption and performance is secondary.
In the past quarter, TSMC has received the first digital projects 10-nm products. This process technology will be used mainly for the manufacture of mobile processors, now TSMC already has five customers in this area. Commercial shipments of 10-nm products are scheduled for the first quarter of next year. It will mark the beginning of the transition of the mobile processor for the flagship processors with 16-nm to 10-nm process technology.
In the first half of 2017 and will be the first prototypes of 7-nm products, not less than 15-20 digital projects will be disbursed during 2017. At 7-nm technology will be released not only mobile processors, but also components for high-performance computing. In 2019 TSMC will begin production of 5-nm products. The demand for advanced process technologies will be warmed not only smartphones, but also virtual reality devices. Related Products :
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