Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) accounted for 30 percent of the sales in the global IC industry last year, it said on Friday.
The figure excludes memory chips, the world’s largest contract chipmaker said in a report to shareholders ahead of its annual general meeting on June 6.
It was the first time that the company’s revenue made up 30 percent of the global total and represents a 4 percent annual increase, TSMC said.
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The company said it generated NT$2.26 trillion (US$73.76 billion) in consolidated sales last year, up 42.6 percent from a year earlier and the 13th consecutive annual increase.
“The year 2022 was a landmark year for TSMC,” the chipmaker said. “Supported by our strong technology leadership and differentiation, we delivered the 13th consecutive year of record revenue, with strong profitable growth.”
TSMC at the end of last year began the commercial production of chips made using its advanced 3-nanometer process. The company at the time said it expects the chips to contribute significantly to its revenue in the third quarter.
Advanced technologies, meaning 7 nanometers and below, made up 53 percent of TSMC’s total wafer revenue last year, up from 50 percent in 2021.
Net profit last year totaled NT$1.01 trillion, up 70.4 percent from a year earlier, on the back of robust global demand for emerging technologies, such as automotive electronics, 5G applications and high-performance computing devices, the company said.
Earnings per share nearly tripled over the past three years to reach NT$39.2 last year, TSMC said.
The company said it shipped about 15.30 million 12-inch equivalent wafers last year, up 1.1 million units from a year earlier.
The increase came after the company deployed 288 distinct process technologies and rolled out 12,698 products for 532 customers.
The chipmaker is developing the more sophisticated 2-nanometer process, which is expected to enter commercial production in 2025, with a trial run scheduled for next year.
TSMC said the process would be the most advanced semiconductor technology in the global IC industry in density and energy efficiency.
However, TSMC was not spared from ongoing inventory adjustments in the global semiconductor industry amid weakening demand from end users.
Last month, TSMC told investors that sales this year would fall 1 to 6 percent from last year in US dollar terms, a downgrade from its January estimate of a “slight increase.”
The chipmaker has kept its capital expenditure budget within a range of US$32 billion to US$36 billion for this year, even though sales in the first quarter fell 18.7 percent from the previous quarter to NT$508.63 billion, and net profit dropped 30 percent to NT$206.99 billion.
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