Director of TSMC company claim that this year slightly more than half of total revenue will bring exactly the smartphone segment. In the next two years, this market will grow by ten percent or so, and although in the future growth rate of 20% per year will no longer be a reality, while talking about the saturation of the market TSMC refuses . The Company believes that it can simultaneously with the transition to more advanced process technologies increase their revenues from the provision of services to producers of components for smartphones.
By the way, migration to advanced process technologies may not be a prerequisite to improve financial performance in this market segment. TSMC is going to do with a mature and cost-effective 28-nm process technology, which continues to improve and make good profit. Accordingly, some of the chips for smartphones will remain at 28-nm technology for a long time.
TSMC sees the prospect not only in the smartphone market, but also mentions tablet , as well as internet things, the automotive sector and the "cloud" technology as those market segments that allow the company to increase revenue in the coming years. Intensive work is underway to optimize energy consumption and packaging chips to populate the world with tiny chips . TSMC is ready to actively assist clients in improving the products in this category.
If necessary, TSMC is ready to build new businesses, if the demand will grow. Not exclude the probability of occurrence of new factories in mainland China. TSMC representatives admitted that this year the company received approximately $ 8 proceeds from each sold in the world of smartphones.