Glance: World's largest contract chip makers

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Glance: World's largest contract chip makers

Post  ianadds on Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:46 pm

Interesting facts..
Glance: World's largest contract chip makers
http://www.cnbc.com/id/38789809

— Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is based in Taiwan, with factories there and in Shanghai, Singapore and Washington state. Second-quarter sales: $3.3 billion. Market share in 2009, according to iSuppli: 49 percent. Publicly traded.


— United Microelectronics Corp. is based in Taiwan, with factories there and in Singapore and Japan. Second-quarter sales: $927 billion. Market share in 2009, according to iSuppli: 15 percent. Publicly traded.


— Globalfoundries Inc. is based Sunnyvale, Calif., with factories in Germany, Singapore and upstate New York. It's the former manufacturing arm of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel's largest competitor in computer processors. The majority is now owned by the Persian Gulf state of Abu Dhabi. Market share in 2009, according to iSuppli: 15 percent.

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Post  seeker401 on Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:36 am

interesting to see taiwan with the big ones..

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Re: Glance: World's largest contract chip makers

Post  ianadds on Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:13 am

Taiwan has its own niche..But you are correct. I am somewhat shocked as well.

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Post  seeker401 on Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:51 am

i guess it was the attraction of cheap labour initally..hell..of course it was!

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Re: Glance: World's largest contract chip makers

Post  ianadds on Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:38 am

New Taiwanese Dollar is "pegged" to the South Korean Won. Nobody knows this but us currency speculators..And now you know..And yes you are correct..cheap labor is the game. Smile

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Re: Glance: World's largest contract chip makers

Post  seeker401 on Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:55 am

ianadds wrote:New Taiwanese Dollar is "pegged" to the South Korean Won. Nobody knows this but us currency speculators..And now you know..And yes you are correct..cheap labor is the game. Smile


thanks for the info

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