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A recent CCID Consulting report forecasts that the global foundry market and industry will continue to grow rapidly and is expected to hit a CAGR of 11.7 percent in the next five years. Sales revenues of China foundries, meanwhile, are predicted to grow at a CAGR of 17.9 percent, reaching $6.53 billion by 2011 and accounting for 15.9 percent of the global market then. The China foundry industry traces its beginnings back to the establishment of CSMC-HJ (now CSMC) in the 1990s. However, the market only achieved major growth when a number of foundries including SMIC and Grace Semiconductor started operating in 2001. Statistics show that from 2002 to 2006, sales revenues of China foundries expanded 6.8 times, with a CAGR of 67.2 percent. In 2006, the industry reached a size of $2.9 billion, accounting for 12 percent of the global market. While sales revenues expanded fast, China’s foundry production capacity grew even faster. Between 2002 and 2006, the country saw its foundry production capacity expand 1.5 times, reaching 7.17 million pieces/year, accounting for 27.2 percent of the global production capacity. In terms of wafer size and line width, foundry production capacity in China is still dominated by 6- and 8-inch and 0.35祄 to 0.11祄 processors. In 2006, 8-inch wafers and 0.35祄 to 0.11祄 processors, respectively, accounted for 53 percent and 55.7 percent of China’s overall foundry production capacity. The 12-inch and 90nm processors only accounted for 4 percent and 2.5 percent of the overall production capacity, respectively. (() |
