Taiwan semiconductor firms will see major revenue boosts from the global cryptocurrency mining craze in 2018, as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has landed sizable orders from Bitmain, China's leading Bictoin ASIC designer, for fabricating mining chips, while Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and TSMC-affiliated Global Unichip have shared the backend packaging and testing orders, according to industry sources.

At the moment, China's Bitmain, Canaan Creative, and Ebang Communication are the world's top-3 suppliers of Bitcoin mining solutions in terms of shipments, with Bitmain alone commanding a 70% share of the global market for such miners.

Bitmain's orders are enough to occupy 90% of TSMC's ASIC foundry capacity during off-peak season, with the remaining 10% booked by Canaan Creative. Bitmain's orders amount to 100,000 wafers monthly at TSMC, serving as a significant driver for the foundry house's revenue growth in 2018, the sources indicated.

Meanwhile, ASE and Global Unichip are also ready to fulfill orders from the two China customers for backend services. In addition, Taiwan suppliers of graphic cards including Asustek, Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte are also expected to benefit from the brisk market demand for such cards to support GPU-based mining machines in the first quarter of 2018, and they are moving to raise quotes for such cards, the sources added.

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