Question 1: TSMC basic product is microchips. TSMC is the major provider of custom chips for PC. Besides, TSMC also provide design services. For dealing with the competitors in the market, TSMC can arrange connections with designers to help put together a chip design that meets the customer's needs and fits with TSMC production system TSMC has more process engineers assigned to a given module than those other companies. To be more competitive, TSMC also design …showed first 75 words of 2005 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2005 total…is the catalyst that optimizes the integration of front-end EDA software with back-end place-and-route software and the design-rule check software. The designer needs closed-loop verification or validation methodologies that ensure that the electrical front-end views operate with the target simulation tools and that the physical back-end views match the targeted place-and-route tools. These views and models need to be tested and validated by the library vendor in order to ensure compatibility with their supported tools.