TSMC plans to increase production at 300mm Fab 14, which positioned in southern Taiwan, to 6000 wafers for each month by the end of 2009, as well as up to 35,000 wafers for every month in 2010 because of growing order for processors Intel Atom. Official authorization of this information from the corporation TSMC no, the manufacturer refers to the confidentiality of the client.

The company uses TSMC Fab 14 as the main plant processors since she began working with Intel on platform Atom. According to the source, TSMC at the beginning of this year, has transferred production of Intel mobile processors from Fab 12 to Fab 14, and now has purchased new equipment and conducts its testing and adjustment in order to increase production by year-end processor Intel Atom, produced on 40 nm process technology, to 5000-6000 wafers per month.

Earlier this year, Intel and TSMC have announced that they will cooperate in the production of processors Atom SoC. Intel said it plans to completely move production to power Atom TSMC, which will allow Intel to help expand the influence of TSMC and Atom processors to compete with ARM in the mobile market. At a time when it was announced that agreement, Intel pointed out that it will not transfer all production to power Atom TSMC. Analysts believe that in the last quarter of 2008 were shipped about five million Atom, and that Intel suffered a "significant" losses on each liftings.

TSMC also declared that it is setting up for the approaching manufacture of graphics chips Intel Larrabee, even though Intel was at pains to strain that the examples exposed at IDF, were not made by Taiwanese manufacturers.