Leading-edge IC foundry market forecast to increase 72% in 2014, says IC Insights

Of the big-four pure-play foundries (i.e., TSMC, GlobalFoundries, UMC, and SMIC), TSMC is the only one that is expected to have a higher revenue-per-wafer figure in 2014 than in 2010. Of the big-four foundries, TSMC is forecast to have the highest revenues per wafer in 2014 at US$1,328, 27% higher than GlobalFoundries. In contrast, UMC's revenue per wafer in 2014 is expected to be only US$770, 42% less than TSMC's revenue per wafer. Although the average revenue per wafer of the big-four foundries is forecast to be US$1,145 in 2014, the actual revenue per wafer is highly dependent upon feature size, according to IC Insights.



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