Global semiconductor investment baked Intel Samsung tied for the first

According to the latest survey of investment bank Pacific Crest Securities report shows that this year in the global semiconductor industry capital investment ranked in the world's largest chip maker Intel and Samsung are tied for first place.

The report shows that, although Intel and Samsung Electronics Company will invest $5 billion 500 million this year, but fell by 4% compared to last year. Last year, Intel invested $5 billion 700 million in semiconductors, and Samsung Electronics reached $5 billion 739 million.

Investment bank is expected this year, the global semiconductor industry's total capital investment will reach $47 billion 155 million, an increase of 46 billion 562 million over last year's $1%. Investment bank said: in the capital investment cycle, we believe that the capital investment in equipment manufacturers can no longer be reduced".

In this year, the global semiconductor industry investment rankings, in addition to Intel and Samsung, followed by modern semiconductor company ($3 billion 200 million), TSMC ($2 billion 700 million), Toshiba Co ($2 billion 200 million), Sony Corp ($1 billion 700 million), Elpida ($1 billion 500 million), United Microelectronics Corporation ($1 billion 500 million), Micron Technology Inc. ($1 billion 450 million), Infineon Technologies AG ($1 billion 400 million), AMD ($1 billion 400 million), STMicroelectronics ($1 billion 250 million), SMIC ($1 billion 200 million), TI ($1 billion 100 million), the Panasonic Corp of Japan ($1 billion) of IM Flash company Intel and micron joint flash enterprise ($1 billion), IBM ($900 million), NEC ($800 million), Fujitsu Corporation ($800 million) And Renesas Technology Corp ($800 million), AMD and Fujitsu Corporation joint venture Spansion ($800 million), Chartered Semiconductor Company ($700 million), etc..

The report shows that in the semiconductor industry, Chinese Taiwan Lianhua electronics company this year's investment growth of 50% over last year, South Korea's Hyundai semiconductor company investment grew 49%, the micron investment is 37% more than last year. But Powerchip, the third largest maker of computer memory chips in Taiwan, has lost more than $51% in investment this year, while NEC's investment in Japan fell by more than $40% this year.