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TSMC places multi-million dollar order with ASML |
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Oct 07, 2005 at 05:31 PM |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, has placed orders
with ASML for lithography tools worth an estimated $ 55million US dollars. The
orders were placed between August 11 and October 6 2005, according a report by
Bloomberg yesterday.
The tools could be required to begin an initial ramp of a
shell 300mm fab TSMC has in the Tainan Science Park, Taiwan. TSMC reported
monthly record sales for September yesterday and projected last quarter that
300mm wafer starts per month would rise through the current quarter to reach
56,000wspm. TSMC's Fab 12 & Fab 14 are expected to reach full capacity in
2006. ASML reports its quarterly financials next week.
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