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Research on Global and Chinese Wafer Foundry Industry, 2012
M2 - Mon Feb 11, 3:28AM CST
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/nrxdp5/research_on) has announced the addition of the "Research on Global and Chinese Wafer Foundry Industry, 2012" report to their offering. Since 2011, the world's major wafer foundries are accelerating the expansion of advanced process capacity scale. With the flourish of smart phone and tablet PC market, the demand for advance process which owns low cost and high efficiency increased rapidly, therefore, the wafer foundries including TSMC, UMC, Global Foundries and Samsung have expanded production capacity actively. In 2011, the annual output value of global semiconductor foundries was nearly $ 30 billion, and TSMC occupies more than 40% of the market share. With the flourish of UMC, Samsung, Intel and GlobalFoundries, in order to maintain the leading position, TSMC invested $ 5.9 billion to expand 12-inch plant and improve the production capacities of 65/55 nm and 40 nm, and the capital expenditure amounted to $ 7.8 billion in 2011, main