The latest report according to market research firm IC Insights, Taiwan manufacturers in South Korea in 2015, a semiconductor wafer plant capacity first world; A total of Taiwan semiconductor manufacturers occupy the global total capacity of up to 21.5% capacity, 20.5% higher than that of South Korea.
IC Insights of statistics is to each chip manufacturer located in overseas stronghold of capacity are included; , the agency noted in regional markets, Asia, North America, and Europe in 2015 contribution to the global semiconductor production capacity, compared with the previous year declined slightly, but other regions including Singapore, Israel, and Malaysia has slightly increased.
In 2015, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and China's semiconductor industry occupies the 69.2% of the total output of global semiconductor can, the proportion of 69.7% in 2014; And at the same time in North America occupies the global semiconductor manufacturers semiconductor production capacity proportion is 14.2%, slightly down from 14.4% in 2014.
2015 European semiconductor manufacturers can occupy the global output capacity proportion is flat, and the same in 2014 was 6.4%; At the same time in other parts of the world semiconductor production fell by 9.6% in 2014, the increase of 10.2%.
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IC, according to reports and Insights while China is actively cultivate local semiconductor manufacturing industry, the country as a whole, according to the percentage of semiconductor production, in 2015 from 10.9% in 2014, slipped slightly to 9.7%; Although China is the world's most electronic products including the iPhone, the assembly, but the application of semiconductor devices are still dependent on imports.
For most of the semiconductor industry, 2015 were probably prefer to no longer mention memories; Global semiconductor sales since the second half, along with the electronics industry fixed inventory levels and going downhill, and to make matters worse, the industry a wave of unprecedented wave of consolidation.
