Rise to $841 million in July, up 32% over the same month last year.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s biggest contract chip maker, Thursday reported its best monthly sales ever.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s biggest contract chip maker, Thursday reported its best monthly sales ever.
The company’s sales rose to NT$27.57 billion ($841 million) in July, up 32% over the same month last year, it said in a statement. The July figure handily beat the previous sales record for a single month, NT$27.52 billion, set last November.
TSMC’s sales for the first seven months of 2006 rose to NT$186.1 billion, up 38% compared to NT$135.0 billion last year.
The company’s financial performance is watched carefully by analysts and researchers; the chip maker is considered a bellwether for the IT industry because of the variety of chips it produces for computer, communications and consumer electronics products.
