Chip maker TSMC said the slowdown of orders
Taiwanese publication Digitimes reported today that the company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is watching the decline in production orders from major clients such as Qualcomm, Broadcom, OmniVision and others. Digitimes notes that the decrease in volumes of of orders occurs simultaneously with the analytic reports, the according to which the on the world the market of is observed decrease in demand on the smart phones and the plates were the upper price category. It is also noted, and a significant drop in the market for personal computers.
Insiders in TSMC said that the company is preparing for the possibility of reducing contractual shipments in the third quarter of this year. Also, they do not exclude the revision to decrease the financial results of TSMC. Digitimes says that now the main production lines TSMC to produce chips based on 28-nanometer manufacturing process using standard c HPL (low-power high-k metal gates).
This process allows you to create mobile processors with a low level of consumption, and produce electronic components for communications equipment, and various handheld consumer devices. expected that after three days TSMC will publish consolidated data on the results of the second quarter.
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