Blogging from Taiwan: TSMC and 40nm Yield
July 14, 2009
Starting with the Taiwan DRAM makers and moving to the Semiconductor Foundries, the economic downturn has hit Taiwan hard. In an unprecedented move TSMC publicly laid-off workers and announced that the reduction in force was an “annual performance management development system”.
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