Exhibit 10.8.3




	








CONFIDENTIAL



ADDENDUM
TO LICENSE AGREEMENT
REGARDING ROYALTIES FOR 90nm LICENSED PRODUCTS



This Addendum to License Agreement
(this “Addendum”), serves to amend that certain License Agreement,
Number PL2028, dated November 30, 1997, as amended (the “License
Agreement”), by and between Artisan Components, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, with its principal place of business at 141 Caspian Court,
Sunnyvale, California 94089-1210 (hereinafter referred to as “Artisan
Components”), and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd., duly
incorporated under the laws of the Republic of China and having its registered
office at N. 121, Park Ave. 3, Science-Based Industrial Park,
Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, R.O.C. (hereinafter referred to as “Licensee”). This
Addendum is effective as of the date last signed below (“Effective
Date”).



RECITALS



Pursuant to separate
addenda between the parties, the parties are providing for the addition of 90nm
Licensed Products to the License Agreement.



By this Addendum, the
parties desire to amend the License Agreement to provide for the following
obligations and responsibilities of the parties relating to the payment of
Royalties for 90nm Licensed Products under the License Agreement.



The parties agree the
below terms and conditions are added to and made a part of the License
Agreement:



ADDENDUM



1. Royalties
for 90nm Licensed Products. Licensee agrees to pay the Royalties set forth
in this Addendum for the 90nm Licensed Products that are manufactured at
Licensee’s Manufacturing Sites, and the parties hereby acknowledge and
agree that the terms set forth in Section 1 (except for
subsections 1(a), 1(b), and 1(c), which state the royalty rates for
0.25 micron, 0.18 micron and 0.15 micron Licensed Products) of the Amendment
to License Agreement To Revise Royalty Payment Formula and Modify Certain
General Terms of License Agreement, effective as of January 1, 2000 (the
“2000 Royalty Addendum”) shall apply to the 90nm Licensed Products. In
accordance with the License Agreement, Licensee only has a Royalty payment
obligation when manufacture occurs at Licensee’s Manufacturing Sites. The
parties will agree to a tagging convention to track the use of the 90nm Licensed
Products in integrated circuit products manufactured by Licensee, pursuant to a
mutually-agreed upon specification, to be agreed upon prior to release of the
90nm Licensed Products to end user customers, and Artisan Components agrees to
use the mutually-agreed upon tagging convention with respect to the 90nm
Licensed Products.



Licensee shall pay to
Artisan Components the following percentage, as running royalties, of all
Revenue received from any and all 90nm LIC/Wafers (as LIC/Wafers is defined
below) manufactured by or for Licensee:









	

	Year*	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8-10
	

	 	[***]	[***]	[***]	[***]	[***]	[***]	[***]	[***]
	







	






Confidential treatment has been
requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy filed herewith omits the information
subject to the confidentiality request. Omissions are designated as [***]. A complete
version of this exhibit has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.


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Year 1 begins with
Licensee’s launch of 90nm risk production for [***] wafer manufacturing
(targeted for [***]). Licensee agrees to provide Artisan Components written
notice within [***] of the launch of the 90nm risk production for [***] wafer
manufacturing.



2.
Definitions. For purposes of convenience, the parties set forth below the
provisions from the 2000 Royalty Addendum defining “LIC/Wafer” and
“Engineering Lot,” changed only to refer to the 90nm Licensed
Products, and the parties acknowledge and agree to these definitions with
respect to the 90nm Licensed Products:



Artisan Components agrees
to use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the 90nm Licensed Products
are tagged in accordance with Section 1 above, and to ensure that the 90nm
Licensed Products distributed pursuant to Artisan’s Free Library Program
and Third Party Relationship Programs are tagged in accordance with
Section 1 above and that Artisan Component’s end user licensees
pursuant to those programs are required to keep the tagging information intact.
Artisan Components further agrees to inform its end user licensees of the 90nm
Licensed Products that TSMC will provide Artisan Components with wafer and part
number information pursuant to TSMC’s contractual obligations to Artisan
Components.



The parties confirm and
clarify that “LIC/Wafer” shall mean any single integrated circuit die
and/or piece of silicon wafer designed and/or manufactured at Licensee’s
Manufacturing Sites Using all or any portion of the (i) Licensed Products
and/or any [***], [***] or [***] of Licensed Products made by or for Licensee or
[***] of the foregoing, (ii) any of the [***] provided [***] and/or [***]
distributed by and through Artisan through its Free Library Program and Third
Party Relationship Programs (“TSMC Cells”), and/or (iii) any
[***] and/or [***] (e.g., [***], [***], [***], [***], etc.) that are developed
by Artisan Components to Licensee’s design rules, mutually-agreed upon
guidelines, Licensee’s spice models, Licensee’s SRAM bit cells (if
available) or by joint review and mutually agreed SRAM-approved bit cell, and in
which end user customers are restricted to manufacturing (through Artisan
Components’ End User License Agreement) solely at Licensee’s
Manufacturing Sites. This Addendum, including the definition of
“LIC/Wafer”, and the License Agreement, constitute the entire
agreement of the parties with respect to Licensee’s royalty obligation to
Artisan Components for 90nm Licensed Products.



“90nm
LIC/Wafers” means all LIC/Wafers that are manufactured for any of
Licensee’s 90nm processes and Licensee’s 90nm derivative processes,
except [***] (defined below) and [***].



“[***]” means an [***]
set of wafers (not to exceed [***]) manufactured for [***] the [***] and [***] of the
[***] for a particular [***].



3. Restricted Credits. The
terms of the 2000 Royalty Addendum shall apply to the 90nm Licensed Products with
respect to Restricted Credits, except as may be modified below:



3.1 Artisan Components
will accrue restricted credits (“Restricted Credits”) for Licensee
based on royalty fees paid to Artisan Components when due hereunder as follows.
A percentage of a Restricted Credit will accrue for each $1.00 of royalty fees
paid to Artisan Components when due hereunder in accordance with the following
table.







[***]  Confidential  treatment
requested pursuant to a request for confidential  treatment filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission.  Omitted portions have been filed separately with the Commission.


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Restricted Credit Percentages For Royalties Paid Against 90nm LIC/Wafers









	

	Year*	 	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8-10
	

	Percentage of Royalty $$ = Restricted Credit	 	[***]	[***]	[***]	[***]	[***]	[***]	[***]	[***]
	







	


For example, if [***] of
royalties is paid to Artisan for Royalty Year 1 for 90nm LIC/Wafers when
due, Licensee will accrue [***] of Restricted Credits. 



4. General; Entire Agreement.
Except as set forth herein, all terms and conditions of the License Agreement shall
remain in full force and effect. Unless otherwise defined in this Addendum, capitalized
terms used in this Addendum shall have the same meaning as set forth in the License
Agreement. This Addendum and the License Agreement constitute the entire agreement of the
parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any other agreements,
promises, representations or discussions, written or oral, concerning such subject matter. 



Accepted and Agreed To:










	ARTISAN COMPONENTS, INC.





By: [***]

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Name: [***]

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Title: [***]

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Date: September 10, 2002

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		TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR
MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Licensee)



By: [***]

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Name: [***]

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Title: [***]

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Date: September 6, 2002

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[***]  Confidential  treatment
requested pursuant to a request for confidential  treatment filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission.  Omitted portions have been filed separately with the Commission.


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