Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/05/17
By: Chang Chien-chung and Frances Huang
Taipei, May 17 (CNA) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest
Data released by IC Insights on Thursday showed that TSMC posted US$7.096 billion in sales in the January-March period, down 16 percent from a year earlier in the wake of weaker global demand, but its ranking remained unchanged.
In the first quarter, U.S.-based semiconductor giant Intel Corp. overtook Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea to become the world’s largest IC supplier as the South Korean firm saw sales revenue plunge due to a tumble in the price of dynamic random access memory chips and NAND flash chips used in storage, IC Insights said.
Intel posted US$15.80 billion in sales in the first quarter, little changed from a year earlier, while Samsung’s sales revenue fell 34 percent from the previous year to US$11.99 billion, the data showed. [FULL STORY]