Wafer Fabrication / Foundry

Updates on Foundry Market Dynamics_20201109

Nov 09, 2020 | PDF

According to the Historical Trading Info/Data section of the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation’s Market Observation Post System, after MediaTek’s 3Q20 Investor Conference...

Updates on Foundry Market Dynamics_20201026

Oct 26, 2020 | PDF

Nvidia will redirect a large number of orders from Samsung to TSMC in 2021 due to uncertainties regarding Samsung’s production capacity...

UMC Is Close to Settling Its Legal Case with the US and Will Focus More on Foundry Business in the Future

Oct 22, 2020 | PDF

According to reporting by global market intelligence firm TrendForce, UMC has announced today (October 22) that the legal case against the company filed...

Foundry Market Bulletin_20201019

Oct 19, 2020 | PDF

TSMC held its 3Q20 earnings conference on October 15. As indicated in the conference...

Foundry Market Bulletin_20201005

Oct 05, 2020 | PDF

Samsung is currently mass producing Nvidia’s RTX 3000 series of graphics cards and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6350 chips at its 8/10nm production lines...

SMIC to Be Put on Entity List per Reliable Sources; Global Semiconductor Supply Chain Braces for Shockwaves

Sep 30, 2020 | PDF

As commented by global market intelligence firm TrendForce, Reuters had covered on September 4th that the federal government of the US has been considering to include SMIC...

Updates on Foundry Market Dynamics_20200928

Sep 28, 2020 | PDF

According to a September 4 report by Reuters, the U.S. Commerce Department has been planning to include SMIC in the Entity List...

Foundry Market Bulletin_20200921

Sep 21, 2020 | PDF

Samsung is continuing to reallocate the production capacity at its Line 13 from DRAM to CIS, with about 20K/M CIS capacity expected to be added by the end of 2020...

Proposed US Sanction on SMIC Could Heavily Impact Development of China’s Semiconductor Industry

Sep 10, 2020 | PDF

Reuters and the Wall Street Journal have lately reported that the US government is now considering placing major Chinese semiconductor foundry SMIC on the Entity List due to the company’s alleged ties...

TSMC Gradually Raises 5nm Capacity as CUR for the Node Will Not Recover Until 2Q21 Due to Limited Clients

Sep 08, 2020 | PDF

The latest analysis of the semiconductor foundry industry by market intelligence firm TrendForce finds that TSMC’s 5nm node formally entered mass production in...

Foundry Market Bulletin_20200907

Sep 07, 2020 | PDF

3nm process technology: the P4-P6 plants in TSMC’s Fab 18, located in Tainan, are currently under construction...

Updates on Foundry Market Dynamics_20200831

Aug 31, 2020 | PDF

On August 17, the U.S. Department of Commerce imposed additional sanctions on Huawei...

Foundry Market Bulletin_20200824

Aug 24, 2020 | PDF

Samsung is continuing to reallocate the production capacity at its Line 13 from DRAM to CIS, with about 20K/M CIS capacity expected to be added by the end of 2020...

Updates on Foundry Market Dynamics_20200817

Aug 17, 2020 | PDF

TSMC’s 5nm process technology entered into mass production in 2Q20. Aside from...

Foundry Market Bulletin_20200810

Aug 10, 2020 | PDF

Given Intel’s recent announcement that its 7nm CPUs will be delayed for at least...