Fab Monitor: Asia Pacific Waves of Investment
-- Semiconductor International, 6/1/2001
Key points
For three consecutive years (1999, 2000 and 2001) Asia-Pacific has accounted for >30% of all capital spending.
Like South Korea and Taiwan before it, China is emerging as a major chip manufacturer.
As recently as 1996, China accounted for only 1% of all chip capital spending.
Spending by Chinese and offshore companies in China will account for 8% of the total this year, more than will be spent in Singapore.
Most new fab activity in China is concentrated near Shanghai or Beijing.
Four Chinese-owned foundries are under construction.
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