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07 May 08
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Through OIP, TSMC can offer vertically integrated services, from designing and manufacturing to testing and packaging, thus shortening clients' IC development processes and reducing their manufacturing costs,
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Many of these efforts could be viewed as competitive to TSMC's current partnerships in the EDA, IP and IC-packaging communities
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As design and manufacturing costs continue to soar at each node, TSMC is providing more tools to help chip makers develop their products. In other words, TSMC--and other foundries--are providing more of a one-stop shop of services to help customers.
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TSMC's sales hit $9.828 billion in 2007, up only 1.2 percent over 2006, according to the firm. The company still dominated the foundry sector, as it owned 44.3 percent share of the business in 2007,
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First, by developing its own IP, TSMC can lock foundry customers into its own, internal fabs. For example, TSMC's third-party IP is portable and works across several competitive foundries. In contrast, TSMC's physical IP is proprietary and does not work in competitive fabs.
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the company must develop its own IP to make sure there is an offering tailored for its own processes.
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