TSMC's eFoundry®; Shortens Time-to-Market, Time-to-Delivery and Time-to-Volume
TSMC's eFoundry® services are a suite of web-based applications that provide a more active role in design, engineering, and logistics. Designers have 24-hour a day, seven days a week access to critical information and are able to create custom reports through eFoundry® online services.
eFoundry® services are available thorugh two channels and three collaboration models.

Chanel Options
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TSMC-Online™ |
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TSMC-Online™ is the first foundry delivery system to enable secure online business transactions and information transfer for creating product design, tape outs, and wafer tracking.
The Results:
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Customers can focus on their own core competency |
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Complete foundry production and IC development cycle coverage |
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Enhanced visibility into TSMC's foundry services |
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Access to up-to-date technical documents and status reports |
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Reduced cycle time, inventory level, and inventory-related costs |
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TSMC-DirectSM |
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TSMC-DirectSM is a premium service that enables system-to-system integration between TSMC and our business partners who use third party software.
The Results: |
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Link mission-critical business processes and seamlessly connect process and information systems through TSMC-DirectSM |
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Enhanced supply chain visibility to reduce cycle time; and control inventory levels and cost |
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Ability to handle free format types such as text, images, CAD files, and binary data |
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Collaboration Options
eFoundry® services' three collaboration options cover design, engineering and logistical functions.
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The Design Collaboration focuses on content availability and accessibility, with close attention to complete, accurate, and current information at each level of the wafer design life cycle.
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The Engineering Collaboration includes online access to pilot lots, wafer yields, wafer acceptance test (WAT) analysis, and quality reliability data.
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The Logistics Collaboration provides access to data updated three times a day on a wafer lot's status in fabrication, assembly and testing, final testing, order and shipping.
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