Taipei - The Taiwan Semiconduction Manufacturing Corp (TSMC), the world's leading contract chip maker, saw its July net sales hit 30.9 billion Taiwan dollars (1 billion US dollars), up 8.3 per cent over June 2008 and up 7.3 per cent over July 2007 respectively, TMSC said Friday.

Revenues for the January-July period totaled 201 billion Taiwan dollars (6.5 billion US dollars), up 22.3 per cent compared to the same period in 2007. (dpa)