Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is the world’s largest contract foundry. You see, many of your tech giants including , Qualcomm, MediaTek and do not own the facilities needed to manufacture chips. So these companies take their chip designs and turn over the production of these integrated circuits to foundries like TSMC and Samsung. For example, last year’s Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 was produced by TSMC using its 7nm process node. This year’s Snapdragon 888 is being manufactured by Samsung Foundry using the latter’s 5nm process node. After TSMC, Samsung Foundry is the planet’s …
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