Category Archives: Wafer and Foundries
Value of Semiconductor Industry M&A Agreements Sets Record in 2020
IC Insights will release its new 2021 McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry later this month. A portion of the new report will examine the top-50 semiconductor sales leaders in 2020 and include a review of the latest merger and acquisition agreements in the semiconductor industry.
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Wafer Capacity by Feature Size Shows Strongest Growth at <10nm
IC capacity for leading-edge (<10nm) processes is expected to grow and become the largest portion of monthly installed capacity across the industry beginning in 2024, based on information in IC Insights’ Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report. At the end of 2020, <10nm capacity is expected to account for 10% of the
Read MorePure-Play Foundry Sales by Region 2020F
IC Insights recently released its September Update to the 2020 McClean Report that presented the second of a two-part analysis on the global IC foundry industry and included a look at the pure-play foundry market by region.
China was responsible for essentially all of the total pure-play foundry market increase in 2018. In
2014-2024 Semiconductor Foundries Sales Forecast
IC Insights recently released it August Update to the 2020 McClean Report that included the first of a two-part analysis on the global IC foundry market. IC Insights defines a pure-play foundry as a company that does not offer a significant amount of IC products of its own design, but instead focuses on producing
Read MoreTSMC’s 2020 Strong Expectations
As expected, most IC suppliers experienced weaker demand and generally poor sales results in the first half of this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and strained U.S./China trade relations. However, as reported in IC Insights’ August Update to the 2020 McClean Report, some key IC suppliers believe that the second half
Read MoreWafer Capacity 2019 By Region
In its Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report, IC Insights breaks down the world’s installed monthly IC wafer capacity by geographic region (or country). Figure 1 shows the installed IC capacity by region as of December of 2019.
To clarify what the data represents, each regional number is the total installed monthly
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