China is to develop the semiconductor industry, is one of the key chip making, no advanced semiconductor technology is impossible to have the development of semiconductor chips. Across the chip in the foundry industry, TSMC TSMC outshine others, over the years with leading on 28/20/16 nm process, has been cast aside past companies such as rival ucm UMC, GlobalFoundries, expected revenue of $2016 in 28.57 billion, 58% of the generation of labor market, the mainland side of the most advanced and SMIC SMIC, revenue of $2.85 billion, only 1/10 of TSMC, but SMIC growth over the past two years have been very quickly.

TSMC status in the global semiconductor industry generation inexorable, largely untouched

When the world's most powerful semiconductor companies belong to Intel, although they are starting to provide ARM processor foundry business, but Intel does not calculate wafer foundry company, the vast majority of processor or self-marketing, samsung electronics in the same way, too, IC Insights in 2016 forecast only for pure wafer foundry enterprise.

2016 years ago, 10 foundries and revenue

Top 10 list of foundries accounted for 95% of the world's contract, including the first four are accounted for 84% of the share, and TSMC, there is no change the phenomenon of dominance, their revenue is expected to grow by 8% in 2016, to $28.57 billion, 58% of the share, 1% less than 59% in 2014, 2015, but this share is invincible.

AMD good gay friend GlobalFoundries revenue is expected to reach $5.645 billion this year, an increase of 12%, 11% market share, not to mention the Polaris GPU and Zen processors AMD will contribute a significant portion of sales to them.

Ucm UMC revenue will reach $4.49 billion this year, an increase of 1%, the market share of 9%, ranking the third.

The fourth is China's SMIC SMIC, revenue to $2.85 billion, 5% share.

Fifth is Israel TowerJazz, ranking jumped a, revenue of $1.245 billion, up 30% from a year earlier.

Powerchip crystal, is the sixth to tenth respectively the Vanguard (Taiwan world advanced), Shanghai the SSMC Dongbu anylink electronics, South Korea and Singapore, but they accounted for the proportion of more and more small, and the last four share only 1%.

Mainland companies, there are two in the top 10, SMIC SMIC ranked fourth, although revenue scale is only 10% of TSMC, but SMIC for rapid development over the past two years, revenue was $2014 in 1.97 billion, rising to 14% in 2015, is expected to grow by 27% this year, growth is higher than most of the contract.

SMIC back is the largest semiconductor market in China, but the main or their craft, which restrict the development of the SMIC compared with 28/20 of TSMC main / 16 nm process, SMIC only last year production of 28 nm Bulk process, 28 nm HKMG high-performance process has just begun, FinFET technology is still in development, and qualcomm, huawei and Belgian microelectronics center is still in the research, the fastest to come out in 2018, when the process technology of TMSC, Intel will upgrade to 7 nm.