{"id":205305,"date":"2020-10-12T12:50:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T04:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techwireasia.com\/?p=205305"},"modified":"2020-10-09T23:49:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:49:35","slug":"tsmc-sales-surge-again-ahead-of-new-apple-iphone-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techwireasia.com\/2020\/10\/tsmc-sales-surge-again-ahead-of-new-apple-iphone-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"TSMC sales surge ahead of new Apple iPhone launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b>Historically, the buildup prior to Apple\u2019s new iPhone launch and holiday inventory would increase further TSMC\u2019s business<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>TSMC remains the bellwether for the industry because of its critical role in crafting silicon for everything from mobile devices to high-powered computers<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Although it had to halt shipments to Huawei Technologies due to the United States blacklisting of the Chinese company, demand from other clients remained high<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ahead of Apple\u2019s upcoming iPhone launch, A-series chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), reported a 22% surge in quarterly sales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-10-08\/tsmc-third-quarter-sales-surge-to-record-amid-jump-in-orders?sref=QqWIvTvt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bloomberg\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> calculations from TSMC\u2019s monthly sales data, the latter saw revenue for the three months to September climb to a record NT$356.4 billion (US$12.4 billion), up from NT$293 billion a year earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apple is one of the chipmaker&#8217;s biggest customers and business will often increase in the months before Apple unveils new iPhones and the holiday season, amid solid and growing demand for chips for 5G, Internet of Things (IoT) and high-performance computing applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first nine months of the year, TSMC reported record accumulated sales of NT$977.722 billion, up 29.9% from a year earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reports suggest that TSMC is likely to receive a boost during the quarter as its second-largest customer Huawei Technologies raced to stockpile supplies before a US ban on shipments to the Chinese telecom giant came into effect last month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, rival chipmaker Samsung Electronics reported recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-10-07\/samsung-s-profit-beats-after-u-s-sanctions-hit-rival-huawei\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">earnings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that beat analyst estimates after it\u2019s mobile and chip businesses benefited from the curbs on Huawei.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Concurrently, Taiwanese chipmakers United Microelectronics Corp. and MediaTek also reported strong sales, suggesting a broad recovery in the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The computer chips made by TSMC aren\u2019t just the brains inside smartphones, laptops, and video game consoles \u2014 they\u2019re also core components of almost every kind of electronic equipment in the world, from that used in data centers to F-35 fighter jets.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with nearly 500 others, Apple, Huawei, Sony, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and HiSilicon are all TSMC\u2019s clients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leading companies like Huawei and Apple design but don\u2019t actually manufacture their own chips unlike integrated device manufacturers, such as Intel and Samsung, which design and then make the chips used in their own products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TSMC\u2019s model is that of a dedicated \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsmc.com\/english\/dedicatedFoundry\/index.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pure-play<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d foundry: it only operates on a contract basis and doesn\u2019t sell devices of its own design.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the last three decades, TSMC has invested in 18 state-of-the-art <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/christmas-specials\/2019\/12\/18\/a-look-inside-the-factory-around-which-the-modern-world-turns\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chipmaking facilities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 called \u201cfabs,\u201d for \u201cfabrication facility\u201d \u2014 in Taiwan and t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">oday the firm accounts for more than half of the US$42 billion foundry segment of the semiconductor industry. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In July this year, it raised its 2020 outlook, highlighting that revenue this year will <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-07-16\/tsmc-s-profit-beats-as-virus-drives-demand-for-datacenter-chips\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">grow<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by more than 20% in dollar terms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TSMC executives also affirmed plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/techwireasia.com\/2020\/08\/taiwan-the-unlikely-frontier-for-the-global-tech-arms-race\/\">build a plant in Arizona<\/a>, saying that the US administration and the state of Arizona closed the cost gap for building the fab.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company had <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/QACLCRT1UM11\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">previously<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said the $12 billion facilities will begin construction in 2021, with production targeted to begin in 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