TSMC suffers from Intel baseband slow down

Stefan Mileschin · 27th August 2016, 09:31

TSMC's 28nm processes have been flat out lately but it seems that Intel's slowing down of orders for baseband chips are going to cause a slight drop in sales in the fourth quarter.

Digitimes has been testing its "industry sauces" and discovered that orders for smartphone-related chips has heated up and filled TSMC's 28nm process capacity with utilization rate reaching 110% in the third quarter. This is expected to slow down as Intel slows down its baseband chip orders This will lead to TSMC's 28nm process utilization rate seeing its first sequential fall since 2016 in the fourth quarter. To be fair TSMC has enjoyed strong demand for 28nm chips since 2012, so it is probably not going to be too upset.

TSMC's 28nm processes have attracted orders from major set-top box (STB) companies including Realtek , MStar and ALi. Chinesee HiSilicon, which is contracting TSMC to make its handset chips, also has STB solutions manufactured using TSMC's 28nm process technology.

Smartphone chip demand and related peripheral ICs, as well as STB chips, already filled TSMC's 28nm process capacity in the first half of 2016.

http://fudzilla.com/news/processors/...band-slow-down

27th August 2016, 09:31	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,618	TSMC suffers from Intel baseband slow down TSMC's 28nm processes have been flat out lately but it seems that Intel's slowing down of orders for baseband chips are going to cause a slight drop in sales in the fourth quarter. Digitimes has been testing its "industry sauces" and discovered that orders for smartphone-related chips has heated up and filled TSMC's 28nm process capacity with utilization rate reaching 110% in the third quarter. This is expected to slow down as Intel slows down its baseband chip orders This will lead to TSMC's 28nm process utilization rate seeing its first sequential fall since 2016 in the fourth quarter. To be fair TSMC has enjoyed strong demand for 28nm chips since 2012, so it is probably not going to be too upset. TSMC's 28nm processes have attracted orders from major set-top box (STB) companies including Realtek , MStar and ALi. Chinesee HiSilicon, which is contracting TSMC to make its handset chips, also has STB solutions manufactured using TSMC's 28nm process technology. Smartphone chip demand and related peripheral ICs, as well as STB chips, already filled TSMC's 28nm process capacity in the first half of 2016. http://fudzilla.com/news/processors/...band-slow-down

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