As is known, intel company is intended to invest 2,5 billion dollars for building the semiconductor production in China.
It goes without saying, the realization of this project cannot but have consequences not only for th sides e directly implicated in it, but also for the branch as a whole. Today became known reaction to the plans Of intel with another important producer of semiconductor chips, Taiwan company TSMC (Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing Co.).
It considers according to the data of source, TSMC that in the short term of the action intel they will not have significant effect.Concerning influence on TSMC, direct action will not be large, said the chairman of administration TSMC Morris Chang. To the moment of the beginning of mass production will pass, at least, two or three years, it, added.
Let us recall, Intel plans to use at the new factory 90 nm technical process. Monthly factory will be able to issue on mountain on 52 thousand 300- mm of plates. In connection with this Chang expressed preoccupation by possible delay in the technological plan: now TSMC uses in the productions, located in the continental part of China, 0,25- m a technical process. At the same time, Taiwan government approved the plan of investments, directed toward the modernization of industrial power TSMC so that would be there mastered 0,18- m technical process.
About the essences of the matter, the discussion deals with overcoming of export limitations, but not about the race in the region of the technologies: it is no secret that standards 0,18- m and 0,25- m on several generations lag behind the foremost developments TSMC, which at its Taiwan factories to the utmost extent uses 90, 65 - and 45- nm technical processes.