Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on November 23 held a groundbreaking ceremony for the sixth-phase construction of its Fab 14, a 12-inch wafer plant located in the Southern Taiwan Science Park.

TSMC will start construction of the  Fab 14 in the first quarter of 2013, according to company executive vice president and co-COO Chiang Shang-yi.

TSMC's facilities at STSP currently have more than 9,000 employees and generated a production value of NT$180 billion (US$6 billion) in 2011, which accounted for 42% of the company's total revenues, Chiang indicated.

Phases 1-4 of Fab 14 have a total quarterly foundry capacity of 540,000 12-inch wafers to produce over 1,200 different types of ICs for about 150 clients a year, Chiang said. With fifth-phase construction of Fab 14 beginning in April 2012, phases 5-7 will have total cleanroom space of more than 130,000 square meters, 1.4 times that of phases 1-4, Chiang pointed out. Fab 14 will become the world's first wafer plant to begin 20nm SoC volume production, and TSMC's first 12-inch wafer plant to start 16nm FinFET volume production, Chiang indicated.

TSMC plans to invest more than NT$500 billion in STSP over the next five years, creating about 7,000 jobs, Chiang noted.

By: DocMemory
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