SEMI Highlights on:
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1) New Audio: Key Programs and Highlights of SEMICON West 2007
2) May 2007 Book-to-Bill of 1.00: Listen Now!
3) Consumer Markets to Change MEMS Landscape
4) Memory Driving Equipment and Materials Markets
5) High-k, Solar and Test Highlight SEMICON West 2007
6) Innovations in CVD Could Drive Cost Reduction
7) Wafer Fab Equipment, Materials: $75B+ and Growing
8) A Glimpse into the Southeast Asian Market
9) LuBlog Provides Personal Perspectives on Nanotech, MEMS and Energy
10) Consensus Forecast for Chip Equipment Industry
Although TSMC offers a variety of wafer product-lines (high-voltage, mixed-signal, analog), TSMC is best known for its logic product-line. Various fabless high-tech companies such as ATI, Broad com, Conexant, Marvell, NVIDIA, and VIA are customers of TSMC.
At least one semiconductor company, LSI Logic, re-sells TSMC wafers through its ASIC design services and design IP-portfolio.
Semiconductor bulls have received a couple of bits of encouraging news in recent days. On April 10, semiconductor foundry Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE: TSM) announced that it saw an up tick in sales during the month of March. Sales rose 7.7% from February after declining month after month beginning last July. Furthermore, market research firm iSuppli recently announced that excess global semiconductor inventory has fallen by 40% from its high during the third quarter of 2006.
