IC Insights published August the latest report shows that global pure wafer generation industry (pure - play foundry) annual sales in 2014 to a record high after a 17% (the highest since 2010, the global IC market growth rate of 9% above 8 percentage), grew 44-fold fell to 6.5% in 2015. Forecast for 2016 is expected to appear relatively substantial growth, to 8.9%, far more than the global IC market growth (in 2016 is expected to drop two percentage points).
In the global top 10 pure foundries, will account for 95% of all pure wafer foundry market share. Since 2016, the big four pure foundries (namely, TSMC, GlobalFoundries, umc, smic) is expected to account for 84% of the city than lead the market. IC Insights, according to the latest report is different from the 2015 Global top ten pure wafer generation industry has 4 years minus sales happen, forecast China's semiconductor manufacturing international (SMIC), TowerJazz Israel and America Global Foundries annual increase rate in three sales double-digit percentage above.
The TowerJazz and smic's annual sales of up to 30% and 27%, with 12% Global Foundries. Smic nearly five years of sales annual compound growth rate as high as 19% (from $2011 in 1.22 billion, growth in 2016 to $28.5 billion m), TowerJazz sales year compound growth nearly three years is as high as 35% (from $5.05 billion in 2013 to $2016 in 12.45 billion). Other Taiwan companies, TSMC, umc, the world's advanced (VIS) is expected to achieve year increased 8.1%, 0.6% and 6.0%; Crystal will be a 2.2% cut in.
2016 years ago or ten pure wafer industry sales will total $46.63 billion, compared with 10, 2015 years ago a combined $42.84 billion, up 8.8%. IC Insights estimates, in terms of global pure wafer generation industry, total sales of $2016 in 49.115 billion, growing 9% from $2015 in 45.102 billion. Among them, GlobalFoundries TSMC and umc and smic first four big players such as sales, accounting for all the world are 84.6% of total sales. The top 10 industry sales, it is 94.9% of total sales.
In terms of individual operators, in 2016, GlobalFoundries TSMC and umc and smic forecast sales were $28.57 billion, $5.645 billion, $4.49 billion and $2.85 billion, ranked first to four, ranking the same as in 2015. Fifth, is by the rapid growth of TowerJazz, in a short squeeze in 2015 under the original crystal ranked fifth in the force.
In the top 10 companies, except GlobalFoundries TowerJazz headquarters are located outside the United States and Israel, the remaining eight industry headquarters in the asia-pacific region. Mainland of Taiwan has four, two (smic, huahong semiconductor), South Korea east (high-tech) and Singapore each one.
Announced in June this year, smic for 49 million euros ($55 million) to buy Italian foundries LFoundry 70% stake, as a result of LFoundry in 8 inches (200 mm) on the wafer installed capacity of 40000 pieces per month, so after the completion of the acquisition, is expected to increase 13% smic existing capacity. IC Insights, however, is expected, although 2016 years international sales will achieve 27% growth, but pure continental whole wafer generation industry market size grew only 8.2%, amplitude less than 13.3% between 2006 and 2007.
IC Insights, said the next five years, with the aid of the Chinese government and the private owners of a large number of investment funds, is expected to mainland pure wafer generation industry in the city in the global market share will keep growing.
