text: TSMC ranked as 4th largest IC supplier worldwide in – Taiwan Wire Service
  TSMC ranked as 4th largest IC supplier worldwide in
  August 27, 2018 taiwanwireservice.com Fashion & Lifestyle, General
  Taipei, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) was the fourth largest integrated circuit supplier in the world in the first half of 2018, according to market information advisory firm IC Insights.
  A research paper by IC Insights on the world's top semiconductor suppliers for the six month period showed TSMC's sales at US$16.31 billion in the first half of the year, a 12 percent increase from a year earlier.
  The top-ranked company was South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. with US$39.79 billion in sales, up 36 percent from a year earlier.
  IC Insights said that if TSMC, the world's largest contact chip maker and a pure-play foundry operator, were excluded from the top 15 rankings, Apple Inc. would have edged into the top 15.