The China IC Ecosystem Report, a comprehensive report for the IC manufacturing supply chain, reveals that front-end fab capacity in China will grow to account for 16 percent of the world's semiconductor fab capacity this year, a share that will increase to 20 percent by the end of 2020...

The Taiwanese semiconductor industry is expected to have a shipment value of NTD 2.5 trillion in 2018 and grow by 8.1% year-on-year, slightly lower than the global average of 10.1%, according to Taipei-based, government-backed IT research institute MIC (Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute)...

IC Insights forecasts total semiconductor capital expenditures will rise to $102.0 billion this year, marking the first time that the industry has spent more than $100 billion on capital expenditures in one year. The $102.0 billion spending level represents a 9% increase over $93...

According to IC Insights, the top-15 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O-S-D—optoelectronic, sensor, and discrete) sales ranking for 1H18 includes seven suppliers headquartered in the U.S., three in Europe, two each in South Korea and Taiwan, and one in Japan...

The TSIA survey showed that Q2 2018 Taiwan IC revenue as a whole (including design, manufacturing, packaging and testing) totaled NT$638.2 billion(US$21.0B), up 5.8% on-quarter and 11.5% increase on-year. With NT$162.2B in design(US$5...

In its recently released Mid-Year Update to The McClean Report 2018, IC Insights forecasts that the 2018-2022 global GDP and IC market correlation coefficient will reach 0.95, up from 0.88 in the 2010-2017 time period. IC Insights depicts the increasingly close correlation between worldwide GDP growth and IC market growth through 2017, as well as its forecast through 2022...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (TSMC) last Thursday at a legal briefing stated that their 7-nm chip process has already gone into mass production. They estimate that during the third quarter it will account for 10% of their revenue and then increase to account for 20% of their revenue in the fourth quarter...