By TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)
TSMC's eFoundry®; Shortens Time-to-Market, Time-to-Delivery, and Time-to-Volume TSMC's eFoundry® services are a suite of Internet-based applications that enable a more active role in design, engineering, and logistics. eFoundry® online services give designers 24/7 access to critical information and can also create custom reports. eFoundry® is available on two channels and three collaboration models. Channel Options TSMC-Online TSMC-Online is the first foundry delivery system to provide secure online business transactions and information transfer for product design, tape-outs, and wafer tracking. The Results: - Customers can focus on their core competency - Complete foundry production and IC development cycle coverage - Enhanced visibility into TSMC's foundry services - Access up-to-date technical documents and status reports - Reduced cycle time, inventory level, and inventory-related costs TSMC-Direct TSMC-Direct is a premium system-to-system integration service between TSMC and its business partners through third-party software. The Results: - Link mission-critical business processes and seamlessly connect process and information systems - Enhanced supply chain visibility to reduce cycle time, and control inventory levels and cost - Free format types such as text, images, CAD files, and binary data Collaboration Options The three eFoundry® collaboration options cover design, engineering, and logistics functions. - The Design Collaboration focuses on content availability and accessibility, with complete, accurate, and current information at each wafer design level - The Engineering Collaboration includes online access to pilot lots, wafer yields, wafer acceptance test (WAT) analysis, and quality reliability data - The Logistics Collaboration provides access to data updated three times a day on a wafer lot's status in fabrication, assembly and testing, final testing, order, and shipping
