TSMC Enters LiDAR Market Targeting Niche Applications

　While expanding the scale of fabrication based on its mature and advance process, TSMC is stepping into the market of niche applications among which light detection and ranging (LiDAR), the new technology increasingly applied to smartphones and autonomous vehicles, just to name a few.  Entering this sector in its capacity as a foundry, TSMC has joined hands with Artilux Inc. an emerging local IC designer.  TSMC uses its 65nm process technology with GeSi materials to fabricate the LiDAR solution making it the world’s first 3D ToF sensor solution using GeSi materials.  The LiDAR solution fabricated by TSMC with design by Artilux will be adopted on smartphones as early as in the second half of this year.  (Released 2021.07.12)