Worldwide semiconductor foundry market grew 4.4% in 2015

"In 2015, semiconductor device market revenue declined due to excess IC inventory, poor demand for mobile products and PCs, and slowing tablet sales," saidSamuel Wang, research vice president at Gartner. "The slowdown in the device market has driven semiconductor producers to be conservative in placing wafer orders to foundries. Foundry growth was only possible from the high wafer demand by Apple and the revenue conversion of a few integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) to foundries." Among the top players, the leader, TSMC, grew 5.5 percent in 2015, driven by the success of 20 nm planar and 16 nm Fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) technologies serving the need of application processors and baseband modem chips. Globalfoundries moved into the No. 2 position with 9.6 percent of the market. The No. 3 position went to UMC with USD 4.5 billion revenue, representing 9.3 percent of the market. Top 10 Worldwide Semiconductor Foundries by Revenue (millions of USD)

2015 Rank	2014 Rank	Vendor	2015 Revenue	2015 Market Share	2014 Revenue	Growth %
1	1	TSMC	26.566	54.3	25.175	5.5
2	3	Globalfoundries	4.673	9.6	4.400	6.2
3	2	UMC	4.561	9.3	4.621	-1.3
4	4	Samsung Electronics	2.607	5.3	2.412	8.1
5	5	SMIC	2.229	4.6	1.970	13.1
6	6	Powerchip Technology	985	2.0	917	7.4
7	10	TowerJazz	961	2.0	828	16.1
8	7	Fujitsu Semiconductor	845	1.7	653	29.4
9	9	Vanguard International	736	1.5	790	-6.9
10	13	Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor	651	1.3	665	-2.0
		Top 10 for 2015	44.814	91.7	42.431	5.6
		Others	4.077	8.3	4.281	-7.0
		Total Market	48.891	100.0	46.812	4.4

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