Its confidence in the smartphone market's ability to provide the company with positive dynamics revenue company TSMC expresses a very peculiar way . It believes that smartphones will become more complex, they require additional chips, processors and sensors, and ordered the release of all of these components, developers will be exactly TSMC.
On the other hand, the company's management believes that somewhere in 2019 smart phone market will cease to supply a major part of TSMC revenue, and in the first place will segment of high-performance computing: it is server-side components, and telecommunications equipment, and specialized computation accelerators.
In the next five years, however, TSMC's will continue to rely on the increased demand for components from the mobile device market. This factor will determine about 50% growth. More a quarter of the market have high-performance computing, and the remaining quarter will get the "internet of things". Returning to the smartphone market, TSMC's believes that in the next five segment will grow by 5-6% annually. New types of sensors, the introduction of virtual and augmented reality, the transition from 4G to 5G networks - all of this will entail even a moderate but steady growth in demand for new chips for smartphones.
Clients from among semiconductor products developer for smartphones TSMC will offer 7-nm process technology of the first generation in 2017. In 2018 it will be upgraded, and in 2019 "will be ready," the 5-nm process technology. That is, the lithography technology will evolve every year, and the development of the smartphone market with the closely related. Where important low cost, will be used 28-nm and 16-nm process technology.