According to industry sources, Taiwanese semiconductor smithy TSMC will soon begin mass commercial production of single-chip Qualcomm Snapdragon systems 855, intended for high-end smartphones. Snapdragon 855 - a first processor 7 nm Qualcomm, which will be used in a variety of new devices All Android-premium, whose production is planned primarily in the second quarter 2019 of the year.
TSMC expects, that orders for 7-nm chips Qualcomm chips offset by lower production volumes for iPhone, so that the loss of revenue in the second quarter will not be as significant, as in the previous. Sources at the same time noted, that TSMC revenues increase significantly since July, When will the next generation of iPhone shipments.
Estimated TSMC, revenues to be between $ 7.3-7.4 billion in the first quarter, What's on 14 % below, over the same period 2018 of the year, when the company received a lot of orders for the production of specialized chips for kriptovalyutnogo market. Руководство ожидает снижение примерно на 22 % по сравнению с последним кварталом прошлого года.
In general TSMC predicts, what 2019 year is not particularly supportive of manufacturers of semiconductor crystals, as well as for the electronics market as a whole. However, According to the world's largest contract manufacturer of chips, competitiveness of its 7-nm process technology will enable continued to outpace the industry averages.