{"id":2617,"date":"2008-09-25T10:32:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T14:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.legitreviews.com:\/\/4f3016a11a6e70416702e9037ae4e4ef"},"modified":"2008-09-25T10:32:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T14:32:49","slug":"tsmc-bracing-for-gloomy-prospects-in-4q08-say-investment-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=2617","title":{"rendered":"TSMC bracing for gloomy prospects in 4Q08, say investment banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of investment banks, including Friedman Billings Ramsey (FBR), HSBC and Merrill Lynch, have issued a conservative guidance over the prospects for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the fourth quarter of this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>FBR expects an 8-10% sequential decline in TSMC shipments in the fourth quarter due to order cuts from a number of sectors, including games consoles, digital video equipment, STBs, DVDs, flat panels as well as Bluetooth chips. TSMC is likely to see its shipments continue to decline 5-10% sequentially in the first quarter of 2009, FBR added. HSBC expects TSMC&#39;s capacity utilization rate to fall to 75% in the fourth quarter and further decline to 65% in the first quarter of 2009  the lowest level in recent years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of investment banks, including Friedman Billings Ramsey (FBR), HSBC and Merrill Lynch, have issued a conservative guidance over the prospects for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the fourth quarter of this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>FBR expects an 8-10% sequential decline in TSMC shipments in the fourth quarter due to order cuts from a number of sectors, including games consoles, digital video equipment, STBs, DVDs, flat panels as well as Bluetooth chips. TSMC is likely to see its shipments continue to decline 5-10% sequentially in the first quarter of 2009, FBR added. HSBC expects TSMC&#39;s capacity utilization rate to fall to 75% in the fourth quarter and further decline to 65% in the first quarter of 2009  the lowest level in recent years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=2617\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}