Posted on Wednesday, April 15 2020 @ 13:47 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
DigiTimes
reports TSMC is now feeling the impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak as the Taiwanese foundry is experiencing a reduced utilization rate of its mature process nodes.
The 14nm process and newer seem to be going strong, but 28nm and 40/45nm is seeing a drop in demand due to lower automotive and consumer electronics devices shipments.
Mature manufacturing processes at TSMC have seen utilization rates drop amid chilled demand for automotive and consumer electronics applications in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, but clients remain keen to secure support from the foundry's advanced nodes. IT firms are also keen to obtain sufficient components to fulfill demand triggered by a surge in stay-at-home needs, with chip resistors seeing particularly tight supply. Despite an influx of short-lead time orders - also thanks to stay-at-home needs - a sense of uncertainty is still looming for memory module makers.
