Foundry four king status unshakable prediction

According to market research company IC Insights, is expected to 2006 pure IC foundry market growth of 22%, compared with the global IC industry growth rate is only 8% (such a high growth rate, is the key reason to enter the Samsung decided to foundry market). IC Insights definition of pure wafer foundries are: do not provide their own design of a large number of IC products, but focus on other manufacturers to produce IC.

Nine of them are in the Asia Pacific region. Headquartered in Europe X-Fab is the only one in the list of non Asia Pacific manufacturers. Headquartered in Germany Erfurt X-Fab semiconductor company before the date agreed to take over the Malaysia Fab 1st Silicon Sdn. Bhd. The deal could double X-Fab capacity.

In the past few years, the pure foundry market has been controlled by TSMC (TSMC), SMIC (joint) (UMC), Chartered Semiconductor (Chartered) and SMIC (the) and other big manufacturers. In fact, TSMC sales in 2006 is expected to exceed $10 billion, to maintain its market share of 50%. 2006 full year, is expected to four manufacturers in the global market share of pure foundry market share of 84%.

IC Insights believes that 2006 will be the third largest semiconductor foundries, one place higher than at the end of 2005 ranking. As shown in the picture, there are three Chinese companies in the top 10 foundries. Not into the top 10 list of other major manufacturers including Shanghai Chinese advanced semiconductor (ASMC), Hongli semiconductor (Grace Semicondutor) and Huarun COMCHIP Technology (CSMC). Overall, China's foundry industry in 2005 in the pure foundry market share of 12.4%. IC Insights forecast in 2006 the total share of Chinese manufacturers will be slightly increased to 12.6%.