The 2015 pure-play foundry market is expected to grow by 6.1%, driven primarily by processes below 40nm.

According to the latest report by market research firm IC Insights, the global pure-play foundry market is expected to grow by 6.1% in 2015, reaching sales of US$44.9 billion. The growth momentum for the overall pure-play foundry market is anticipated to come primarily from semiconductor components manufactured using advanced processes below 40 nanometers. IC Insights estimates that the pure-play foundry market for processes below 40 nanometers will grow by 24% in 2015, reaching a size of US$16.1 billion—compared to US$13 billion in 2014. As for the market for processes at or above 40 nanometers, the estimate for 2015 is...

According to the market research institute IC Insights The latest report predicts that, 2015 The global pure-play wafer fabrication market is expected to grow this year. 6.1% , to reach 449 US$100 million in sales; the growth momentum of the overall pure-play foundry market is expected to be driven primarily by the adoption of... 40 Semiconductor components with advanced processes below the nanometer scale.

IC Insights Estimated, 40 The pure-play wafer fabrication market for process nodes below the nanometer level will... 2015 Annual growth 24% , to reach 161 a scale of hundreds of millions of dollars; this figure is in 2014 Year for 130 hundreds of millions of dollars. As for... 40 Market for nanometer and above process nodes, estimated 2015 The year will decline. 2% , to come to 288 hundred million dollars.

Figure 1: The market for 40 Demand for advanced processes below the nanometer scale is driving growth in the pure-play wafer fabrication market.

The table below shows the world’s four major pure-play foundry companies. 45 Process nodes at or below the nanometer level in 2014 Year and 2015 Sales performance for each quarter of the year; IC Insights Expected, TSMC ( TSMC ) of the 2015 Of the annual total sales, there is 63% is from 45 Nanometer and below process technologies. In addition, TSMC is... 2015 The annual estimate is 57 hundred million dollars Sales revenue comes from 20 Nanometer and below process technology (including 20 Estimated revenue from nanomanufacturing 51 hundreds of millions of dollars, 16 Estimated revenue from nanomanufacturing 6 hundred million dollars).

In 2014 Year, TSMC 20 Revenue from nanometer and below process technologies only 21 hundreds of millions of dollars, 2015 The annual figure will be 2.7 Twice. And TSMC has already... 2015 Mass production begins in the third quarter of the year. 16 Nano-processing, the company stated: 16 The growth of nanomanufacturing will be extremely rapid, even surpassing... 20 The growth rate of nanomanufacturing processes. ”

Figure 2: The Four Major Pure-Play Foundries 45 Revenue from nanometer and below process technologies

According to IC Insights the estimate, GlobalFoundries of the 45 The proportion of processes at the nanometer level and below, in 2015 The third quarter of the year will be lower than the previous quarter. 5% ; The reason for the decline is that the company... The third season incorporates the acquired... IBM Chip business division (acquisition deal in 7 Sales completed in the month, most of which came from adopting older process nodes. RF Component.

United Microelectronics ( UMC ) at 2015 Approximately one-third of the year’s total sales are estimated to come from... 45 Nanometer and below process technology; while SMIC ( SMIC ) of the 2015 Year 45 Sales at the nanometer and below process nodes are estimated to be only 3.63 hundreds of millions of dollars, which is the same year for TSMC. 45 Processes at the nanometer scale and below 2%。

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