TSMC invests $99.5million to roll out 28, 40nm processes
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is to purchase land from Powerchip for $99.5million. As well as a 218,156 square metre plot of land at the Hsinchu Science Park in northern Taiwan, the company will acquire an empty 12in fab and offices on the site.
TSMC has already started constructing a factory and office buildings and two advanced 300mm wafer fabs will be built on the site, as part of its GigaFab project.
Suppliers of chip-making equipment told Taiwan Economic News that the land will be convenient for TSMC to quickly roll out 28 and 40nm processes which are high in demand. They added that the land with completed beam structures was originally designed by PSC to turn out 60,000 wafers a month.
