Leading wafer foundry TSMC said 14 method will, chief financial officer lora ho after the meeting noted that global smartphone market forecast growth of 6% this year, including semiconductor related production (excluding storage) forecast growth of 7% year on year, its associated with higher order smartphones in semiconductor devices (excluding storage) related output value can have a double digit growth year on year, but the low order smartphone related semiconductor components, output is somewhat flat.

Lora ho pointed out that this year the overall smartphone shipments forecast to grow 6% year on year, including the semiconductor revenue associated with mobile phone (excluding storage), the overall estimated to grow 7% year on year, the higher-order related semiconductor element value growth rate is better, than last year's double-digit growth, low order mobile phone related semiconductor element value is estimated flat compared with last year.

Smart phones are still in the next five years is a major force in the revenue

Lora ho, stressed that in the next five years, smart phones are still pushing growth as the main kinetic energy TSMC camp, in the next five years will maintain TSMC compound annual growth rate of 5-10%, half of which come from the smartphone related to drive revenue growth.

10 nm process fastest Q1 revenue contribution of next year

On the new process schedule, TSMC common operating officer mark liu pointed out that 10 nm process has already begun to enter mass production, the fastest contribute revenue next season 1, 7 nm part to maintain the progress of the project, overall planning the schedule earlier than rivals, as for the 5 nm 2020 fastest production.