China Wafer Production Capacity Growth Fastest in World
Region’s Fab Capacity Expansion Picks up Pace
Unwavering in its drive to build a strong, self-sufficient semiconductor supply chain, China plans more new fab projects than any other region in the world from 2017 to 2020, and its expansion of fab...
200mm Fabs Add 600,000 Wafers Per Month – Is There an End in Sight?
Tracking toward even stronger growth than forecast last year, 200mm fabs worldwide are gearing up to add more than 600,000 wafers per month from 2017 through 2022, an 11 percent growth rate that will lead to a new high of 6 million wafers per month...
Data Storage and Automotive Continue to Drive Fab Investment into 2019
Device manufacturers continue to invest. Spending in cloud data center (compute, networking and storage), automotive (content per car increases), industrial (on content, factory automation, and positive macro trends), and consumer (gaming)...
200mm Fab Investment Finds Home in China
By Clark Tseng, Industry Research & Statistics Group, SEMIChina’s ambitious plans to build a world-class semiconductor manufacturing supply chain domestically certainly has the industry’s attention. With over a dozen new 300mm fab announcements...