1934 Act Registration No. 1-14700
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of November 2003
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
(Translation of Registrant's Name Into English)
No. 8, Li-Hsin Rd. 6,
Science-Based Industrial Park,
Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file
annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.)
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the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.)
Yes No X
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registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82:_________ .)
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
Date: November 19, 2003 By /s/ Lora Ho
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Lora Ho
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
TSMC and OmniVision to Establish Joint Venture VisEra
VisEra Offers Backend Manufacturing Services for Image Sensors
Hsinchu, Taiwan, November 19, 2003 - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Ltd. (TAIEX: 2330, NYSE: TSM) ("TSMC") and OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
(Nasdaq:OVTI), today announced that the two companies have reached an agreement
to establish a new joint venture - VisEra Technology Company, Ltd. (VisEra) - to
offer backend services for image capturing integrated circuit and module. The
total investment of the joint venture is expected to be approximately US$ 50
million.
Ms. Lora Ho, TSMC spokesperson, vice president and chief financial officer,
noted that, "With an aim to offer all CMOS image sensor customers with more
competitive services, TSMC and OmniVision plan to establish VisEra to integrate
backend manufacturing services for image sensors, including color filters. In
addition, Mr. Michael Tsai will serve as the Chairman of VisEra."
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About TSMC
TSMC is the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, providing the
industry's leading process technology and the foundry industry's largest
portfolio of process-proven library, IP, design tools and reference flows. The
company operates one advanced 300mm wafer fab, five eight-inch fabs and one
six-inch wafer fab. TSMC also has substantial capacity commitments at its
wholly-owned subsidiary, WaferTech, and its joint venture fab, SSMC. In early
2001, TSMC became the first IC manufacturer to announce a 90-nm technology
alignment program with its customers. TSMC's corporate headquarters are in
Hsinchu, Taiwan. For more information about TSMC please see http://www.tsmc.com.
About OmniVision
OmniVision Technologies designs, develops and markets high performance, highly
integrated and cost efficient semiconductor image sensor devices. Our main
product, an image sensing device called the CameraChip, is used to capture an
image in a wide variety of consumer commercial mass market applications
including digital still cameras, cell phones and video game consoles. OmniVision
believes that its highly integrated CameraChips enable camera device
manufacturers to build camera products that are smaller, consume less power,
cost less and are less complex and more reliable than cameras using either
traditional CCDs or multiple chip CMOS image sensors. OmniVision believes that
it supplies one of the most highly integrated single chip CMOS image sensor
solutions available today. OmniVision's CameraChips are currently used in a
number of consumer and commercial applications such as digital still and video
cameras, cell phones, personal digital assistants, personal computer cameras,
toys and games, including interactive video games, and security surveillance
cameras.
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TSMC Spokesperson:
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Ms. Lora Ho
Vice President & CFO
Tel: 886-3-566-4602
For further information, please contact:
Mr. J.H. Tzeng Mr. Jesse Chou Ms. Shan-Shan Guo
PR Department Manager, TSMC PR Manager, TSMC PR Manager, TSMC
Tel: 886-3-666-5028(O) Tel: 886-3-666-5029(O) Tel: 886-3-666-5033(O)
886-928-882-607(Mobile) 886-932-113-258(Mobile) 886-939-059-246 (Mobile)
Fax: 886-3-567-0121 Fax: 03-5670121 Fax: 03-5670121
E-mail: jhtzeng@tsmc.com E-Mail: jhchoua@tsmc.com Email: ssguo@tsmc.com