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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has recently spent a total of almost NT$5 billion (US$145 million) on five separate machinery equipment purchases. The amount already accounts for more than one-tenth of its proposed capital spending for this year. An influx of orders for handset- and wireless-related chips, graphics processors, and FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) for the second quarter of 2009 has encouraged the world's top contract chipmaker to start spending, market watchers commented.
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