Taipei - The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (TMSC), the world's largest contract chip maker, saw its sales in April soar nearly 25 per cent year-on-year.

TMSC's April sales totaled 28 billion Taiwan dollars (875 million US dollars), up 5.8 per cent from March 208 and up 24.8 per cent year-on-year, TSMC said.

Revenues for January-April 2008 totaled 113 billion Taiwan dollars (3.5 billion US dollars), up 32 per cent from the same period in 2007. (dpa)