Company Profile For Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) is principally engaged in the manufacture of integrated circuits (ICs) for customers based on their own or third parties' IC designs. The Company offers a range of wafer fabrication processes, including embedded non-volatile memory process, embedded dynamic random access memory (DRAM) process, mixed signal/ radio frequency (RF) process, high voltage process, complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor process, color filter process, micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) process and silicon germanium process, among others. The Company's chips are used in computer products, communications products and consumer electronic products. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had seven wafer plants.

BRIEF: For the nine months ended 30 September 2009, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.'s revenues decreased 24% toNT$203.65B. The Company's net income decreased 35% to NT$56.55B. Total revenues reflect a decrease in the Company's overall business due to unfavorable market condition. Net income for the period also suffered from lower interest income, as well as a presence of loss on equity investment.