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Taiwan (from 3) Intel, meanwhile, reported a revenue of
$77.71 billion for its fiscal 2021.
the impact of an Ohio fab adds to the
semiconductor supply. TSMC record revenue
For the latest reported quarter, Q2, TSMC
Closely guarded secret set another record with soaring revenues
The actual wafer fabrication capacity and of $18.16 billion compared to Intel’s 2Q
device yield of individual semiconduc- revenue of $15.3 billion.
tor makers is a closely guarded secret.
Customers, too, in most cases are rarely Undeniably, as the largest supplier of
revealed. The figures we reported were semiconductors for other chip vendors,
furnished by Bloomberg, not TSMC. TSMC is the very, very large pachyderm in
the room, to which others aspire.
In TSMC’s case, the company has posted
the 300mm equivalent capacity on their In an October 2021, article, the NAS-
web site. DAQ newsletter maintains that TSMC, in
top place, holds 55 percent of the silicon
Wealthy and vulnerable foundry market business.
We noted earlier that TSMC may supply
as much as half of the semiconductors Samsung is in second place
sold to the world. This has made TSMC Second place, the article reports, belongs
not only wealthy, but vulnerable, as well. to Samsung, with 17 percent of the found-
ry market. It’s likely that a large portion
How big is TSMC? In 2021, TSMC reported of Samsung’s foundry work is used inter-
$56.82 billion for the year. Top chipmaker nally for Sam-
sung consumer
appliances, sm-
arthones, etc.

Memory sales
In addition, as
the largest pro-
vider of semi-
conductor mem-
ory, a substantial
amount is sold
to smartphone
producers.

The third largest
silicon foundry,
according to
NASDAQ, is an-
other Taiwan-
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TSMC operates multiple fabs in China and Taiwan, and has completed construction of its Arizona fab.