ICInsights recently released the latest version of the study, published in 2015, the whole chip foundries, including pure wafer foundry service providers and manufacturers foundry business IDM) list.

Semiconductor manufacturing co (TSMC) is a wafer foundry industry sales leader in 2015, sales reached $26.4 billion last year, is five times as second Global Foundries, is ranked fifth in the mainland of China wafer generation industry of semiconductor manufacturing international (SMIC) twelve times.

It is worth mentioning that TSMC compared the performance of 14 years grew by $1.464 billion, and it comes from the apple performance increased by $1.99 billion, so if not apple's support, wafer foundry TSMC last year's performance will decline 2%, than the company actually fell by 8%.

Global Foundries in the fourth quarter of 2015 sales of $1.4 billion, annual revenue amounts (annual run - rate) for $5.6 billion, about 12% higher than the company annual sales of $2015 and $5 billion. If not in early July 2015 merger of IBM's IC business, Global Foundries sales will decline by 2% in 2015.

In the above chart shows the 2015 global top 13 wafer generation industry's total revenue of $46.7 billion, holds the annual overall wafer foundry industry sales of 93% of the $50.3 billion, more than 91% in 2013 two years ago by 2%. With the ever increase of the wafer foundry industry barriers to entry, the percentage of the IC Insights expected this to will continue to increase.

Although wafer foundry enterprises take advantage of Taiwan, but in IC design. Faces a dilemma.

Taiwan IC design industry bottlenecks

IC Insights published statistics, in 2015 the global IC design industry is the overall revenue of $84.2 billion. Headquartered in IC design companies in the United States covers 62% of the world's IC design industry revenue. Taiwan IC design companies 18%, ranking the second.