Technology Platform Strategy

¡@ How to reduce the time to market is probably one of the most frequently asked questions in the semiconductor industry today. We, at TSMC, are trying to answer this question.

¡@The answer is not simply a matter of proving the best process technologies for our customers. Rather, what is required are the best process technologies AND related foundry services, integrated to meet the unique product and business requirement of each customer on an individual basis. TSMC is now introducing "Technology Platforms" to satisfy your unique needs.

¡@These technology platforms are categorized into two main groups: Advanced Technology and Mainstream Technology.

 
By Dr. Genda Hu

Vice President, Marketing

 

 
 

¡@Advanced Technology responds the semiconductor industry's performance needs - the process technologies and tightly integrated services that are at the leading edge of the ITRS roadmap.

¡@Mainstream Technology consists of a collection of product-proven process technologies and provides the best overall value with customer-focused enabling services.

¡@Platforms integrate feature technologies (i.e.; mixed-signal, embedded memory, non-volatile memory, high voltage, and CMOS image sensor) with service products (such as design service, DFM service, CyberShuttle, on-line eFoundryinnovations, mask service, and backend service).

 

 

¡@Together, TSMC's Advanced Technology and Mainstream Technology meet the industry's broadest range of IC design requirements in the widest possible vista of applications. TSMC's goal is to provide the optimum, most complete and easiest to use set of process technologies and ready-to-use services for the fastest time to market, time to volume and time-to-revenue.

¡@As we launch these technology platforms, we welcome your partnership and input. And while this platform strategy represents the wave of the foundry industry future, we remain firmly rooted to our values of innovation and excellence that I hope, you have come to expect from TSMC.

¡@For more information on how TSMC's Technology Platforms can empower your innovations, contact your account manager or visit us at www.TSMC.com.

 

 

 





 

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