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1. South Asia Branch Engineer secret the interview did not enroll violet, was sued in Taiwan;
(46 years old), a senior engineer at South Asia Technology Corporation, learned about the 20 nanometer wafer process technology of South Asia technology companies. He is going to work for Xi'an Unisplendour Semiconductor and would like to seek three to five times as much salary in Taiwan. In December last year He took part in online training courses and holidays and other occasions. At the office of South Asia Science and Technology Corporation, he logged in his account, password and intended to copy his personal computer. Because of restricted access, he failed to succeed. He converted the screenshots to 20 All the process of nano-wafer copy print, study and memorize.
January 17 this year, Li Zhicun went to Xi'an Ziguang interview because he was not familiar with the key manufacturing process key technology, has not been admitted and returned.
South Asia Science and Technology discovered confidential data leakage in May. According to the login account, it was found out that Li Zhicun had stolen the information and prosecuted the prosecution. Taoyuan District Public Prosecutors Office first restricted Li Zhi-cun's departure so that he could no longer bring confidential data to seek employment with the other side.
Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office in accordance with the crime of business secrets suspect investigation, the investigation ended yesterday, in accordance with the Secrecy Act, Article 13, paragraph 2, Article 13, paragraph 1, paragraph 2, intended to be used in the mainland without authorization Other people suspected of business secrets, Lee Man filed a prosecution.
South Asia Branch said in a statement yesterday that the company found that employees surrendered surnamed Li suspected of theft of trade secrets and intends to serve the company's competitors in mainland China, take the initiative to the Department of Justice, Taoyuan City Investigation Office reported that the entire case of the investigation and actively investigate, The defendant found that the criminal evidence was found to have been detected by the Taoyuan District Procuratorate and prosecuted according to law.
2. TSMC intends to 3 billion semiconductor investment over 20 billion US dollars;
The world's largest semiconductor foundry Taiwan integrated circuit manufacturing (referred to as TSMC) co-CEO (CEO) Liu Deyin December 7, said the circuit will be 3 nm (1 nanometer 1 billion) Of the new generation of semiconductor investment more than 20 billion US dollars by investing heavily in cutting-edge fields, ahead of South Korea's Samsung Electronics and other competitors.
TSMC's semiconductor factory
Liu Deyin disclosed the news in a speech delivered in the afternoon of the 7th in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, where 10-nanometer linewidth semiconductors, such as the new Apple iPhone, are among the most cutting-edge products, and 7-nanometer products will start volume production in 2018 and 3-nanometer products It is expected to be mass-produced in 2022. Currently, only TSMC has implemented the 3-nanometer product project and the new factory is built in Tainan.
Semiconductor is generally divided into the memory responsible for storage and logic responsible for computing semiconductors. TSMC products dominated by logic semiconductor, the current multi-faceted smartphones. The company believes that after the mass production of 7-nanometer products in 2018, in the face of artificial intelligence AI) and data center needs are expected to surge.
In the field of semiconductors, narrowing the circuit width has become the key to reduce costs and improve performance.On the one hand, the reduction of the circuit width leads to the difficulty of manufacturing, the price of manufacturing equipment is soaring.Asset (ASML) developed by Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturers " EUV lithography (EUV lithography) "devices cost more than 100 million euros per station.
3. TSMC November monthly revenue record high;
Semiconductor foundry leader TSMC yesterday (November 8) announced in November revenue of 93.153 billion yuan, the highest single-month record high, a slight decline from the previous month 1.4%, up 0.1% over the same period last year.Market is expected, TSMC Season 4 Revenue hit a record high.
Benefit from Apple's new machine began to drive shipments demand, TSMC 10 nm large shipments, TSMC has revenue of more than 90 billion yuan for two consecutive months, set a record high in October, even slightly reduced in November, but also the second highest in history .
According to TSMC's previous Q4 fiscal results, revenue forecast rose by about 10% quarter-to-quarter to challenge the highest single-season record. According to market analysts, TSMC's Q4 revenue is expected to be satisfactory. Revenue for November was approximately 888.755 billion yuan, an increase of 2% over the same period of last year.
After the listing of the Apple iPhone series, the sales volume has been gradually warming up, and the revenue of TSMC has returned to the growth track in the second half of the year, and the strength of performance growth has been more pronounced since the fourth quarter. TSMC switched its operating outlook to US dollars since the third quarter; 4 quarter earnings forecast, the estimated revenue will range between 9.1 billion to 9.2 billion US dollars, an average quarterly growth rate of about 10%; gross margin is expected to be 48% to 50%, operating profit margin of 37% to 39%.
TSMC this quarter to 30.3 basis of the New Taiwan dollar, it is estimated that the fourth quarter revenue will fall from NT 275,700 to 2,788 billion yuan, the fourth quarter of TSMC's financial estimates, if the December revenue of 88,027 million Yuan is up to a low standard, if the 911.27 billion yuan is up to high standards.
TSMC issued a report a few days ago worried that TSMC first quarter of next year operating correction fear fear quite drastic, bearish growth momentum next year, TSMC shares so there is a wave of kill, however, TSMC outlook for future orders continued to be optimistic. TSMC rose slightly yesterday 0.5 yuan, received 227 yuan.
TSMC estimates 5G will be formally commercialized in 2019, a year earlier than the market research agency into the era of 5G, the AI and 5G related applications, the future must be advanced to 7 nanometers below the process support, the market demand in the future is quite strong, TSMC is expected to become a major technology and ecosystem supplier.
Huang Wenqing, vice president of Taiwan's new investment adviser also believes that TSMC's performance in November in line with expectations, the fourth quarter revenue should be smooth record high in history, for some foreign investors bearish on the first quarter of next year, TSMC performance, Huang Wenqing that the first quarter of the business cycle of prosperity Diminishing normal, but the introduction of various new applications in the future conducive to TSMC's advanced manufacturing processes and high-speed computing products shipped on the TSMC 2018 Outlook is still positive. Economic Daily
4. UMC drops 12% revenue in November;
Set micro-grid news, foundry UMC and the world's advanced November performance fell simultaneously, UMC in November to reduce monthly revenue 12%, the world's advanced slightly slipped 1% less than 4 months to a new low.
With the gradual fermentation of the off-season effect, UMC slipped its November performance from its peak in October to NT $ 12,154 million, a monthly decrease of 12% and a decrease of 5.89% from the same period of last year.
Although the world's advanced shipments in November increased from October, the revenue of NT $ 2.066 billion was only NT $ 2.066 billion, a slight decrease of 0.9% from October and a 4-month low.
However, UMC's total revenue in October and November reached 25.963 billion yuan, the fourth quarter operational targets should be successfully reached, wafer shipments will be estimated quarter Minus 3% to 4%.
The world's advanced Q4 operational targets should be successfully completed. Quarterly sales will be about 6.2 billion to 6.6 billion yuan, which will be flat compared with the third quarter.
5 pass western data no longer prevent Toshiba from selling memory chips business
SAN FRANCISCO, December 8, according to the British "Financial Times" Web site quoted people familiar with the sources said that Western Digital will no longer prevent Toshiba to 180 billion US dollars to sell memory chip business to private equity fund leader consortium transactions. Early next week, a settlement agreement will be signed.
The source said that the Toshiba board of directors has approved the framework agreement, both parties will abandon the lawsuit to resolve the remaining obstacles to the transaction.
Western Digital is a joint venture partner of the memory chip business of Toshiba.Western data insisted that Toshiba sold the memory chip business in violation of the terms of the joint venture.Western Digital is also bidding for this business Toshiba.
According to sources, Toshiba has agreed in principle that Western Digital can invest in the next generation of chip manufacturing plant, Toshiba had previously blocked the participation of Western Digital.
Toshiba spokesman said the company hopes to reach a settlement agreement, but will not provide details of the negotiations. Western Digital has not yet comment.