When TSMC is soaring, competitors like Samsung and SK hynix are at a turning point

Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are facing a bleak outlook in terms of their bread-and-butter memory chip businesses as soaring global inflation, the won's fall against the dollar and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war have dampened demand for IT products using those chips, according to industry...

TAIWAN’S TSMC TO INVEST $100 BILLION TO EXPAND ITS MANUFACTURING CAPACITY

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• Taiwan’s TSMC to invest $100 billion to expand its manufacturing capacity.
• Apple Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. mostly uses processor chips made by TSMC.
• The chip maker’s revenue was 18% higher in January-February per...

TSMC WIDENS THE CHASM WITH SAMSUNG DOING EXPONENTIAL SALES IN 5-NM CHIP PRODUCTION

• In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, global foundry companies are expected to see their sales grow exponentially in 10 years in 2020.
• Market research firm TrendForce forestalled on Nov. 19 that global foundry sales will increase 23.8 percent in 2020 from the previous year.
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TSMC BEATS SAMSUNG COMPREHENSIVELY IN CHIP MANUFACTURING RACE

• A media report from Taiwan concluded  that TSMC, the world’s No. 1 foundry based in Taiwan, has brought in advance more than half of  EUV lithography equipment that will be manufactured by ASML of the Netherlands in 2021.
• The reason Samsung is investing in EUV l...

SOUTH KOREAN CHIPMAKERS WITNESS BUSY SEASONS AMIDST US SANCTIONS ON SMIC

• South Korea's chipmakers couldn’t be a happier lot as they stand to gain the maximum from the United States' export restrictions against China's leading foundry firm, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), analysts here said Saturday.
• Th...

KOREAN SEMICONDUCTOR MARKET HIT HARDEST AMIDST US-CHINA TECH WAR

With the latest US sanctions on China’s Huawei taking effect Tuesday, South Korea has accelerated monitoring the impact of the ban on chip sales to the Chinese company.

According to data by Korea International Trade Association, China was the largest market f...

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS HITS PAYDIRT WITH CHIP-FABRICATION BIZ

• Samsung Electronics is poised to witness manifold growth in its foundry business in the second half of the financial year as recounted by analysts, with rising expectations for generating orders from Intel Corp.
• In its second-quarter revenue growth proclamation, the world's...

SAMSUNG TO BE DETHRONED BY TSMC IN QUEST FOR MARKET LEADERSHIP

• US-based Intel remains established as the numero uno in the global semiconductor market in terms of sales and operating profit in the first half of 2020.
• South Korea’s No.1 chipmaker Samsung Electronics seems to be trailing behind its Taiwanese rival TSMC.

TSMC generated revenue growth through process nodes of 5 G & 7 nm

With January setting in, and earnings from tech firms on the horizon, it's only normal for analysts and other people to start speculating about what shareholders and market watchers can expect from balance sheets. Taiwan's TSMC is one tech company that is vital to key American manufacture...