Japan's domestic semiconductor manufacturers and TSMC's have very close relationships . Renesas Electronics (RenesasElecronics), Toshiba (Toshiba) and other large enterprises entrusted to the recent increase in TSMC foundry products , Fujitsu intends to sell its main factory in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, Japan to TSMC . These Japanese semiconductor manufacturers have no capacity to continue investing for semiconductor manufacturing equipment ,so they had to outsource manufacturing . TSMC 's role in the Japanese semiconductor industry thus gradually worsened .Semiconductor plant equipment such as coping processes to technology innovation, not cast 100 billion yen of scale can not become things . Because there is no sufficient funds for investment in manufacturing equipment side , but had to focus resources on chip design and development to improve the competitiveness of enterprises , it will increasingly rely on foundries . Renesas, Fujitsu , Panasonic three Japanese companies precisely because of this leaving the Japanese semiconductor industry TSMC in the sense of presence and heavier. Not just Fujitsu , Renesas also want to plant located in Yamagata Prefecture sell TSMC , we can know that they have not hold due to operational losses incurred manufactured parts business. Fujitsu and Panasonic two companies are also due to operating losses , intentionally cause the LSI design and development combined , thus making part of the business so that you can cut out. TSMC whether to buy Japanese semiconductor manufacturer plant is inconclusive , it touches on the semiconductor manufacturing process to provide the materials and equipment required in the Japanese manufacturers began to benefit from TSMC's 20nm manufacturing process, has started out in Taiwan . The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that the world's leading wafer polishing materials manufacturers Hitachi Kasei set up in May this year in Tainan production bases , which is the company's first overseas to support fab nearest set point , can one say that TSMC related materials demand enough to make the factory moved to Taiwan nearest services. Since the rise of the smartphone market , changing not only the way Apple or Samsung to develop mobile goods manufacturers, it also changed the foundry manufacturer's destiny. With respect to the mobile device has never been able scored Intel chip market to keep up with the trend of TSMC in both revenue and invest substantial gains . Chang has said remain in office until the end of 2014 , after him , there will be what changes TSMC , Intel is able to expand the foundry business , all remains to be seen .
