Samsung Busts TSMC's 'Monopoly,' Analysts Say
Alan Patterson, EETimes
4/21/2015 05:20 PM EDT
TSMC, the world’s largest chip foundry, is likely to lose pricing power this year in its most profitable technology nodes ranging from 28nm to 16nm as key customers including Qualcomm, MediaTek, Apple, Nvidia and Marvel shift to Samsung and other TSMC competitors as second sources, the analysts said after TSMC posted its first-quarter 2015 financial results on April 16.
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