Sales were helped by strong demand from companies that tap TSMC to produce semiconductors used in mobile phones, competitiveness in 28-nanometer width manufacturing processes and favorable exchange rates, CFO Lora Ho said in a statement.
If he is right, that could mean an Israeli strip of land, 20-30km in width, running west of the Jordan river, the Palestinians' main gateway to the Arab world.
Through a few hardware changes, Samsung compressed the device, which was first introduced at the Mobile World Congress trade show in mid-February, to a width of 8.6 millimeters.