Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, Taiwan’s largest semiconductor maker, says 1996 sales jumped 37% to $1.433bn in 1996 despite a 4.8% drop in sales in December to $94m. It attributed its December sales decline to a one-week maintenance shut-down of its third plant; its fourth plant began test production in the fourth quarter of 1996, and […]
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, Taiwan’s largest semiconductor maker, says 1996 sales jumped 37% to $1.433bn in 1996 despite a 4.8% drop in sales in December to $94m. It attributed its December sales decline to a one-week maintenance shut-down of its third plant; its fourth plant began test production in the fourth quarter of 1996, and will enter mass- production in February; construction of its fifth plant has just been completed and the company expects to begin mass production by the end of this year.
