wafer foundry manufacturer TSMC announced yesterday (19th) that it would spend US$85 million to acquire the factory and ancillary facilities of Qualcomm's Qualcomm Display Company located in Longtan Science Park, which is the first time TSMC has purchased a factory building of a customer's company. The factory covers an area of about 50,000 square meters and is expected to serve as a base for TSMC to expand its high-end packaging and testing capacity in the future.
TSMC's services to customers in recent years have extended from wafer foundry to the later stage of high-end packaging and testing. TSMC's Finance Minister He Limei said at the meeting at the beginning of this year that TSMC's InFO (Integrated Fan-out) packaging and testing process technology has been developed and is expected to be introduced into mass production in the next year (2015). TSMC announced the purchase of Qualcomm Longtan Factory this time, and based on the timeline, it is expected to be used to expand mass production of InFO packaging and testing technology next year. It is understood that TSMC's sealed testing manpower has moved in advance before officially signing the contract yesterday, and may continue to recruit troops thereafter.
In addition, TSMC's 16-nanometer FinFET+ (finfield-effect transistor enhanced version) process was successfully trial-production a few days ago and is expected to be introduced into mass production in July next year. With its high-end packaging and testing capacity in place, it is expected that the order-taking capability will have a more competitive advantage in the future. The industry estimates that TSMC is expected to obtain at least half of the OEM orders for Apple's A9 processor.
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- Release date November 20, 2014
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