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TSMC continually strengthens its core competitiveness and deploys both short-term and and long-term technology and and business development plans and assists customers
in in taking on the challenges of short product cycles and intense competition in in the electronic products market to meet
ROI and growth objectives •
1 Substantially ramp up the business and sustain advanced technology market share with continually increased capacity and R&D investments 2 Maintain mainstream technology market share by expanding business to to new customers
and market segments with off- the-shelf technologies 3 Continue to enhance the competitive advantages of TSMC’s platforms in in mobile high performance computing automotive electronics and IoT design ecosystems so as to to expand TSMC’s dedicated foundry services in these product applications 4
Further expand TSMC’s business and and service infrastructure into emerging and developing markets •
Long-Term Semiconductor Business Development Plan
1 2 3 Continue developing leading-edge technologies at a a a a pace consistent with Moore’s Law Broaden specialty business contributions by further developing derivative technologies Provide more integrated services covering system-level integration
design design design design design design technology definition design design design tool preparation wafer processing and backend services all of which deliver more value to to customers
through optimized solutions Short-Term Semiconductor Business Development Plan