Equipment manufacturers pointed out that TSMC is located in Taiwan's South Branch Park 5-nanometer new plant total investment amount of 200 billion yuan, to catch the first half of 2019 to complete the construction, trial production in the second half, 2020, the official mass production.
TSMC held a board meeting yesterday. During the meeting, it approved a capital budget of about NT $ 129.8 billion, including a capital budget of about 50.5 billion yuan to build a factory building and a capital budget of about 79.3 billion yuan for other projects to expand and upgrade advanced manufacturing capacity and expand advanced packaging processes Capacity, expansion of special process capacity, conversion of logic process capacity to special process throughput, and R & D capital expenditures and recurrent capital budgets for the first quarter of 2018.
In addition, the Board of TSMC also approved within the limit of not more than 2 billion US dollars, the TSMC Global Ltd. TSMC Global Ltd. set up by the TSMC in the British Virgin Islands capital increase to reduce the cost of foreign exchange hedging.
The biggest highlight of TSMC's board resolution lies in TSMC's official launch of a 5-nanometer new factory construction plan. TSMC's 10-nanometer and 7-nanometer production lines are focused on Fab 15, a 12-inch super-fab in China, Branch 12-inch super-fab Fab 14 extension is expected to be built from the first 8 to 10, a total of three plants, 5-nanometer total monthly capacity is expected to see 9 to 10 million.
The 5-nanometer TSMC new site was launched in September this year and covers an area of over 40 hectares. Due to the rising cost of construction and equipment, the total investment amount of the 3-nanometer 5-nanometer plants will hit a record high and the equipment manufacturer estimates that it should reach 200 billion yuan .
As a result, TSMC's capital expenditure this year is expected to reach 10.8 billion US dollars has hit a record high, the next two years, capital expenditures appear to be higher than this year.Li Hemei TSMC Finance Minister said in a few days ago that the TSMC years years of capital Spending will be maintained at more than 10 billion US dollars, capital expenditure revenue will remain at 30 to 35%.
TSMC in the fourth quarter has begun trial production of 7-nanometer, is expected to officially mass production in the first quarter of next year, the Ministry of the mask process using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology, 7 + nano is expected to mass production in 2019. As for the 5-nanometer Department At present, it plans to start pilot production in the second half of 2019 and mass production in 2020.
In addition, TSMC has decided to build a 3-nanometer wafer fab in Nanke Park, respectively, Fab14's No. 11 and No. 12, due to the current shortage of water shortage in Taiwan is still pending, TSMC also continued with the government and director Organizations to communicate, 3-nanometer new plant will begin construction in 2020.