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Qualcomm opens Hsinchu center

Daniel Nenni

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US-based mobile chip designer Qualcomm Inc yesterday opened a manufacturing engineering and testing center in Hsinchu, expanding its presence in Taiwan.

Qualcomm also expects to accelerate its purchases in Taiwan, which already rose to NT$240 billion (US$7.9 billion) last year, up from NT$90 billion five years earlier, and should hit NT$300 billion next year.

The center is to provide services for the supply chain in the semiconductor industry, Roawen Chen (陳若文), senior vice president and chief supply chain and operations officer of Qualcomm, said at the facility’s inauguration ceremony.

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A Qualcomm sign is pictured at the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai, China, on June 28, 2019.​

Photo: Reuters
It is Qualcomm’s largest and most advanced engineering testing center outside of the company’s headquarters in the US, Chen said.

Qualcomm’s ties with Taiwan would further be strengthened when it becomes the first client of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC, 台積電) 4-nanometer fab in Phoenix, Arizona, he said.

The TSMC fab is under construction and expected to start production next year.

When Qualcomm first invested in Taiwan two decades ago, it had only two employees — a hardware engineer and a salesperson — as the company worked with HTC Corp (宏達電) to develop personal digital assistants, he said.

Qualcomm now has a combined workforce of 1,700 in Taipei and Hsinchu, and has invested NT$43 billion in Taiwan to grow with the local semiconductor ecosystem, Chen said.

Last year, it generated about NT$70 billion in production value for Taiwan’s information and communications technology industry, he said, citing a report by the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (台灣經濟研究院).

Guests attending the inauguration ceremony included American Institute in Taiwan Director Sandra Oudkirk; Cliff Hou (侯永清), senior vice president of Europe and Asia sales and corporate research at TSMC, and ASE Technology Holding Co (日月光投控) chief operating officer Tien Wu (吳田玉).

 
Qualcomm is back with TSMC, absolutely. The second to the left is Roawen Chen, QCOM Chief Supply Chain Officer. He worked at Intel, Marvell, and TSMC before QCOM. Far right is Cliff Hou, he built the TSMC ecosystem.

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Wonder what Samsung is thinking when its former customers are so openly getting into bed with TSMC. I believe they recently indicated they intend to spend $230 billion through 2042. With that large a number and such a long term projection it seems they expect to win back a lot of business from TSMC. Wishful thinking or do they have good reason to be so optimistic? Thoughts?
 
They have a winning attitude. Smart, industrious, passionate, and not woke. They are long term focused, like TSMC. It is the way business should act.
 
US-based mobile chip designer Qualcomm Inc yesterday opened a manufacturing engineering and testing center in Hsinchu, expanding its presence in Taiwan.

Qualcomm also expects to accelerate its purchases in Taiwan, which already rose to NT$240 billion (US$7.9 billion) last year, up from NT$90 billion five years earlier, and should hit NT$300 billion next year.

The center is to provide services for the supply chain in the semiconductor industry, Roawen Chen (陳若文), senior vice president and chief supply chain and operations officer of Qualcomm, said at the facility’s inauguration ceremony.

p12-230318-328.jpg

A Qualcomm sign is pictured at the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai, China, on June 28, 2019.​

Photo: Reuters
It is Qualcomm’s largest and most advanced engineering testing center outside of the company’s headquarters in the US, Chen said.

Qualcomm’s ties with Taiwan would further be strengthened when it becomes the first client of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC, 台積電) 4-nanometer fab in Phoenix, Arizona, he said.

The TSMC fab is under construction and expected to start production next year.

When Qualcomm first invested in Taiwan two decades ago, it had only two employees — a hardware engineer and a salesperson — as the company worked with HTC Corp (宏達電) to develop personal digital assistants, he said.

Qualcomm now has a combined workforce of 1,700 in Taipei and Hsinchu, and has invested NT$43 billion in Taiwan to grow with the local semiconductor ecosystem, Chen said.

Last year, it generated about NT$70 billion in production value for Taiwan’s information and communications technology industry, he said, citing a report by the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (台灣經濟研究院).

Guests attending the inauguration ceremony included American Institute in Taiwan Director Sandra Oudkirk; Cliff Hou (侯永清), senior vice president of Europe and Asia sales and corporate research at TSMC, and ASE Technology Holding Co (日月光投控) chief operating officer Tien Wu (吳田玉).


"Qualcomm’s ties with Taiwan would further be strengthened when it becomes the first client of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC, 台積電) 4-nanometer fab in Phoenix, Arizona, he said."

Now Qualcomm is the fourth companies who publicly announced their production commitment at TSMC Arizona fab. The other three are Apple, AMD, and Nvidia.

It follows the same principle TSMC has followed: build a fab to satisfy customers' needs and commitment. TSMC won't build a fab based on the speculation.
 
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