[Industrial] New TSMC 20-nm Chip Plant Breaks Ground

[Industrial] New TSMC 20-nm Chip Plant Breaks Ground (Chinese Version)

CNA - Focus Taiwan (2012/11/23) Phase-six construction of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's 14th wafer foundry, which will be the first plant in the world to mass produce 20-nanometer quad-core chips, broke ground in southern Taiwan November 23.

The project is part of TSMC's planned NT$500 billion (US$17.17 billion) investment over the next five years in the Southern Taiwan Science Park in Tainan.

The plant will also become the world's first 12-inch fab to mass produce 16-nm FinFET semiconductors, according to Shang-yi CHIANG, TSMC's Executive Vice President and Co-Chief Operating Officer.

The clean rooms of the fifth, sixth and seventh phases of the expansion project will cover over 130,000 square meters, 1.4 times the floor space of the first four phases. Phase-seven construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2013.

The new facility represents TSMC's most aggressive expansion project since the company was established in 1987, CHIANG said at a ceremony that marked the launch of phase six and the completion of phase five of the project.


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CNA - Focus Taiwan 2012/11/23

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