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Sales of ICs built using <40nm process technology forecast to rise 18% at pure-play foundries

In 2017, the 7% increase in the total pure-play foundry market is forecast to be almost entirely due to an 18% jump in <40nm feature size device sales, writes market analyst IC Insights.

Although expected to represent 60 percent of total pure-play foundry sales in 2017, the ≥40nm pure-play IC foundry market is forecast to be up only USD 0.2 billion this year. In contrast, the 2017 leading-edge <40nm pure-play foundry market is expected to surge by a hefty USD 3.3 billion. Moreover, not only is almost all of the pure-play foundry growth forecast to come from leading-edge production in 2017, most of the profits that are expected to be realized in the foundry market also forecast to come from the finer feature sizes as well. TSMC is by far the technology leader among the major pure-play foundries. In 2017, 58 percent of TSMC’s revenue is expected to come from <40nm processing, more than double percentage at GlobalFoundries and more than triple the share at UMC. In total, TSMC is forecast to hold an 86 percent share of the total <40nm pure-play foundry market this year. Illustrating how dominant TSMC is in the leading-edge pure-play foundry market, the company is expected to have almost 7x the dollar volume sales at <40nm as compared to GlobalFoundries, UMC, and SMIC combined this year (USD 18.5 billion for TSMC and USD 2.7 billion for combined total of GlobalFoundries, UMC, and SMIC). In fact, 10 percent of TSMC’s total sales this year are forecast to be for its 10nm process technology. In contrast to TSMC, SMIC only entered initial production of its 28nm technology in 4Q15, more than three years after TSMC first put its 28nm process into production. In fact, only 7 percent of SMIC’s 2017 sales are expected to be from devices having 28nm feature sizes (the company does not offer a finer feature size at this time), which is the primary reason its revenue per wafer is so much less compared to TSMC.
More information can be found at IC Insights.

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