DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/v5rlhk/global_and_china_i) has announced the addition of the "Global and China IC Manufacturing Industry Report, 2011-2012" report to their offering.
The IC manufacturing industry mainly involves memory vendors, IDMs and foundries. By technology, IC can be divided into analog, digital and mixed signal. Most digital IC businesses are IC design houses and, analog signal businesses commonly refer to IDMs. But it is not the case for Japanese manufacturers, which have long been applying vertical supply chain system and bringing the whole link of the supply chain under control. Thus, nearly all the semiconductor manufacturers in Japan are IDMs.
The foundries fall into two types, one produces high-volume digital IC and the other produces low-volume analog IC, high-voltage IC and mixed signal IC. For high-volume digital IC foundries, they are required to ceaselessly improve the IC process technology by CAPEX at least USD1 billion annually, more than 50% of which are earmarked for equipment depreciation and R&D; for the later, they are much smaller by operation scale, with each annual revenue no more than 700 million USD.
For digital IC foundries, efficiency is the top priority, since only those that can develop the most advanced process technology in the shortest duration can come out top in the cut-throat competition. For instance, the R&D cost is likely to recover within one year provided a company makes the initiative to develop the world's first 90-nm process technology within six months at a cost of USD1 billion. However, if a company develops the same technology by investing the same amount two years later than the pioneer, it means that there is little chance for it to recover its R&D cost, for the less advanced technology is no longer a magnet for customers. Therefore, there is, in general, only one lucrative in digital IC foundries, and one with meager profit, while the rest are either loss-making or with a narrow margin of profit.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Global Semiconductor Industry
2. Semiconductor Industry
3. IC Manufacturing Industry
4. Major Semiconductor Vendors
Companies Mentioned:
- TSMC
- Samsung
- Intel
- UMC
- SMIC
- Micron
- TowerJazz
- VIS
- Texas Instruments
- GlobalFoundries
- Dongbu HiTek
- Magnachip
- ASMC
- Hua Hong NEC
- Shanghai Huali Microelectronics
- Powerchip
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