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  1. Martian

    TSMC Dwarfs Foundry Rivals | Electronics Weekly

    The most important factor of Taiwanese companies is their profitability. Unlike Japanese multinationals (e.g. Toshiba, Hitachi, and Mitsubishi), large Taiwanese companies do not cook their accounting books, lose lots of money, or falsify data such as mileage for cars. Taiwan is strong in...
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    TSMC Dwarfs Foundry Rivals | Electronics Weekly

    You bring up a good point. South Korea is highly leveraged. The problem with a chaebol or keiretsu is that it enters many large existing business sectors in the hope of gaining market share. This requires a huge amount of capital. Thus, during the Asian financial crisis of 1997, South Korea had...
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    TSMC Dwarfs Foundry Rivals | Electronics Weekly

    There are a few keys to Taiwan's success in the high-tech sector. Firstly, Taiwan's ITRI was founded in 1973. ITRI is a quasi-government organization to support research and development. This is logical. As a small country, Taiwan needs to collect and focus its combined energies to develop high...
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    TSMC Dwarfs Foundry Rivals | Electronics Weekly

    Taiwan's TSMC crushes Samsung in semiconductor foundry business. When you look at the sales chart closely, you will see that Taiwan TSMC's sales rose from $20 billion to $26.5 billion in the two year period from 2013 to 2015. TSMC gained $6.5 billion in annual sales. Over the same time...
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    TSMC Dwarfs Foundry Rivals | Electronics Weekly

    TSMC Dwarfs Foundry Rivals | Electronics Weekly
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