Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/19
By: Chang Chien-chung and Frances Huang

Taipei, May 19 (CNA) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) was the third largest integrated circuit supplier in the world in the first quarter of the year, unchanged from recent quarters, according to market information advisory firm IC Insights.

A research report released by IC Insights showed TSMC posting first-quarter sales of US$8.47 billion, up 13 percent from a year earlier, to retain the No. 3 spot in the rankings.

TSMC was the only contract chipmaker listed in IC Insights’s first quarter rankings of the top 15 semiconductor suppliers.

If TSMC, the world’s largest pure-foundry operator, had been excluded from the list, Taiwan-based IC designer MediaTek Inc. would have been ranked 15th with total sales of about US$1.70 billion in the January-March period.    [FULL  STORY]