TSMC Continues to Dominate the Worldwide Foundry Market. Company is a provider of independent semiconductor assembling and test manufacturing services. The demand increase for application-specific chips, higher semiconductor content in automobiles, and industrial electronics will trigger the foundry industry to grow in midsingle digits from 2018 through 2021. Foundries' technology product management leaders must increase their quality standards. Foundries, fabless suffer in 2018 ranking November 13, 2018 // By Peter Clarke That is, if we judge from the performances of fabbed, fabless and foundry vendors of semiconductor chips in the latest ranking from IC Insights.
TrendForce points out that the 1Q19 rankings for foundries remains almost the same as last year's save for Powerchip, who might be surpassed by TowerJazz due to falling demand in the 12-inch foundry market .
As shown, Samsung was the only IDM foundry in the ranking. The top-15 ranking includes one pure-play foundry (TSMC) and three fabless companies. Leading pure-play semiconductor foundry sales 2015-2018 Sales values of Cirrus Logic in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013-2018 Pure-play foundry market size by region 2017-2019 Although growing only 4% last year, Samsung easily remained the largest IDM foundry in 2017, with over 5x the foundry sales of Fujitsu, the second-largest IDM foundry. It includes seven suppliers headquartered in the U.S., three in Europe, two each in South Korea and Japan, and one in Taiwan. Foundry production revenue is expected to decline by 16 percent in 1Q19 compared with the same quarter in 2018 to US$14.6 billion, according to market research firm TrendForce.
2Q19 Revenue Ranking for the top ten foundries March 18, 2019-- According to TrendForce's newest research report, development momentum of advanced production processes has been dropping due to weakening demand in most end markets, including smartphones.Foundries face a severe challenge in 1Q19, and global foundry production revenue for the first quarter is expected to decline by around 16% compared to the same quarter 2018, …
The top-15 ranking includes one pure-play foundry (TSMC) and four fabless companies. We may get a chance to see TSMC's revenue climb its way out of the 1Q19 valley season by season.Samsung Foundry, which split off back in 1H17, landed second place in market shares thanks to contributions from its System LSI division. Yet 200mm capacity will remain tight, if not sold out, throughout 2018.
However various nuisances have impacted the 1Q19 market: Apart from the traditional offseason, weakening demand for consumer products, rather high inventory levels, falling demand in the car market, the Intel CPU shortage and the slowing of China's economic growth, the US-China trade dispute also presents major uncertainties for the global market. Net revenues for the full year of 2018 amounted to NT$371,092 million (USD 11.87 billion), up by 28% from 2017. TSMC, by far, was the leader with $32.2 billion in sales last year. Copyright 2011-2020, AnySilicon. TrendForce's projections are that the worldwide foundry industry 2019 will exhibit negative growth for the first time in a decade, with total revenue falling by nearly 3% compared to 2018. Looking forward, TSMC's 2019 market performance will be aided not only by the first quarter shipment orders pushed to the second, but also by contributions to revenue from collaboration with customers such as HiSilicon, Qualcomm, Apple and AMD etc.