TSMC is just a foundry, their process is gds in, wafer out; That is, TSMC receives the chip design document and then gives the final wafer to the customer.
As with the pcb foundry, you draw the pcb, give the design document to the pcb factory, and then give you the circuit board.
With similar principles and different difficulties, TSMC has achieved the top of this blue star.
Even the United States has been urging TSMC to set up factories in the United States, you guess what they are afraid of?
Does TSMC have chip design capability?
Yes, it's very strong.
TSMC has a subsidiary called GUC, Creative Electronics, in which many TSMC executives have shares.
What does GUC do? turnkey chip solution.
spec to chip; When the customer tells GUC what chip the boss wants, GUC can deliver the chip to the customer, it's as simple as that. The customer is responsible for the definition of chip products, and the rest is given to GUC to be responsible for buying ip, saving architecture, front-end design, back-end design, flow sheet (to find TSMC), seal test (to find ASE), and finally provide to the user, the chip is the user's. GUC charges a fee for the hard work, and of course the customer can choose a few steps. This is a common ability of Taiwanese companies to serve customers.
Creative's annual revenue is 13.5 billion new Taiwan dollars, or nearly 3 billion yuan. It is approaching the revenue of the top 10 fabless chip design companies in the mainland.
Service is good, use it all say good.
The boss directly tells GUC what chip he needs, and the problem of lack of core is solved directly.
Maybe some of you want to ask? Why such a good service company why not use more Ah.
In a word, too expensive.
To what extent, men listened to silence, women listened to tears.
TSMC's chip technology is self-developed.
TSMC is currently the world's largest chip foundry, foundry for the world's top chips, the basic mainstream flagship machines have the shadow of TSMC, a small part from Samsung. TSMC's chip technology is self-developed, and this aspect of technology can be said to be unique in the world. Including the United States Intel cpu technology in the process behind TSMC for a few years. In fact, the most intuitive manifestation of this technology is the yield of the chip and the heat of the chip, which TSMC controls is much stronger than the second place Samsung.
TSMC first learned to make chips from the United States. Later, through their own management, training talents, invested a lot of funds and continued to grow.
TSMC lithography machine asml Netherlands, photoresist, HF from Japan. Technology licensed to the United States.
American, of course. Almost all the chip technology in the market comes from the United States. Of course China has it too