Fab Monitor

-- Semiconductor International, 11/1/2000

Dedicated Foundry Wafer Capacity

Key points:

• Dedicated foundry capacity rose from 130,000 200 mm equivalent wafers at the beginning of 1995 to 500,000 at the end of 1999.
• Dedicated foundry capacity will increase from 500,000 200 mm equivalent wafers a month at the end of 1999 to almost 1.4 million 200 mm equivalent wafers at the end of 2001.
• Twenty percent of all semiconductor capital spending in 2000 will be by dedicated foundries.
• The top three foundries - TSMC, UMC and Chartered Semiconductor - will account for more than 80% of all dedicated foundry capacity in 2000.
• Companies in Malaysia, China, Korea and Israel are planning, building and opening new fabs.
• IDMs, such as Hyundai, are entering the foundry business.

Strategic Marketing Associates is a market research company focusing on the fab. For information about capital spending and new fab projects, call Strategic Marketing Associates at 1-831-464-2669.