TSMC and AUO acquire Taichung plant facilities for NT$38.8 billion
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TSMC has agreed to acquire AUO's Taichung fab and attached facilities for NT$38.8 billion, with AUO estimating a disposal gain of roughly NT$18.5 billion, according to ABMedia. The deal follows earlier reports of acquisition talks between the two companies and marks TSMC's second purchase of a panel production facility, after its NT$17.14 billion acquisition of Innolux's Southern Taiwan Science Park plant in 2024, bringing combined spending on the two deals to NT$55.94 billion. TSMC has not disclosed which process nodes will be deployed at the AUO site or its mass-production timeline, and the transaction does not establish a glass substrate supply agreement with AUO, whose CoPoS glass substrate development remains a separate matter. Watch for TSMC's process allocation and production schedule announcements for the site, and any follow-on supply arrangements tied to AUO's glass substrate business.
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