The Development of Wafer Foundry Industry in China Mainland is Greatly Hampered by IC Design Houses in China Mainland.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c45856) has announced the addition of "Global Wafer Foundry Industry Report 2006" to their offering. Based on plenty of reliable statistics and cases, this report surveys the world top wafer foundry fabs in a wide viewpoint from technical analysis, production capacity, output & sales status and market strategies. The wafer foundry industry can be divided into three camps. The first camp has a sole member of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation TSMC Traffic Systems Management Center TSMC Toll Station Management Controller TSMC Transportation Supply Maintenance Command TSMC Technical Services Manager Code ), which has first class productivity and owns good quality fame worldwide. So it is always the first choice for many large IC design houses. Whenever the semiconductor industry suffers recession or declining market demand, large-sized IC design houses tend to order from TSMC. Therefore the more recessionary the semiconductor industry is, the more orders TSMC gets and accordingly the fewer other wafer foundry fab has. The second camp includes United Microelectronics Company (UMC UMC United Methodist Church UMC United Microelectronics Corporation UMC University Medical Center UMC United Microelectronics Corp (Republic of China) UMC University of Missouri-Columbia ), Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, (“SMIC”, NYSE: SMI, SEHK: 981) is a semiconductor foundry in mainland China, providing integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing services at 350 nm to 90nm technologies. (SMIC SMIC Salaire Minimum Interprofessionnel de Croissance (French: guaranteed minimum wage) SMIC Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (Shanghai) SMIC Side Mount Intercooler ), CHARTERED and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . The four wafer foundry fabs are usually the second choice or alternative for large IC design houses and the first choice for medium IC design houses. When recession falls in the semiconductor industry, these four companies are apt to be firstly impacted. To avoid such impact, they all have their own major clients with strong loyalty. The major clients of UMC are Media Tek and NOVATEK, both are included in the UMC camp. Media Tek is the worldwide largest DVD player IC manufacturer with a stable capacity of 50,000 - 60,000 pieces per month. NOVATEK is the largest TFT-LCD TFT-LCD Thin Film Transistor - Liquid Crystal Display driver IC manufacturer with a stable capacity of 30,000 pieces per month. While SMIC takes Infineon and ELPIDA as its major clients and maintains a relatively stable business relationship by offering memory foundry. CHARTERED, Infineon, Samsung and IBM have built a cross platform wafer foundry ally and the market demand is also growing steadily. IBM, however, provides CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. foundry services for game machine makers with super production capacity like Microsoft XBOX and Sony PS3. Relying on the local industry chain, manufacturers in the third camp each have their own specialties and regional advantages. MAGNACHIP and VANGURD are both specialize in LCD driver IC foundry and meanwhile they cooperate with driver IC industry in South Korea and Taiwan. MAGNACHIP is also specialized in image sensor CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. foundry like Dongbu Anam, which is also accomplished in automobile electronics. While HHNEC is strong in the Smart card domain and JAZZ is sophisticated in RF IC foundry services. X-FAB is adept at mixed-signal and MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. foundry. Episil is expert in power semiconductor components and Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation Limited (ASMC ASMC American Suzuki Motor Corporation ASMC American Society of Military Comptrollers ASMC Association of Sales & Marketing Companies ASMC Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference ASMC Area Support Medical Company ASMC American Small Manufacturers Coalition ) is skilled in analog IC foundry. The development of wafer foundry industry in China mainland is greatly hampered by IC design houses in China Mainland. Among those 500 IC design houses, only at most 50 are able to have mass productions. Over 90% of those companies are just conceptual ones relying on loans or external investments. Considering those 50 design houses are having mass productions, more than 90% of them are focus on logical IC rather than analog IC. For logical IC, wafer size and manufacturing techniques determine the production cost. 12-inch and 90nm or 65nm wafer is the lowest-cost solution for logical IC. In logical IC field, wafer foundry fabs in China mainland are all of weak competitiveness except SMIC. 45 out of 57 wafer fabs in China mainland are still manufacturing products over 0.5nm. In China mainland, many blindly started wafer production lines focus on foundry services. As most of the investment is from loans, it is quite hard to bring any profits. Area's Covered: * -The Semiconductor Market * -Overview of the Wafer Foundry Industry * -Wafer Fabs Companies Mentioned: * Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) * Shanghai Hua Hong NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Electronics Company. Limited (HHNEC) * Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (GRACE) * China Resources Microelectronics (Holdings) Limited (CRM) * Shanghai Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.,Ltd (ASMC) * Hejian Technology (Suzhou) Co.,Ltd * BCD Semiconductor Manufacturing Limited (BCD Semi) * Founder Microelectronics Corporation Limited * Zhongning Microelectronics Company * Nantong Green Mountain Integrated Corp.,Ltd (GMIC GMIC Glass Manufacturing Industry Council GMIC Grange Mutual Insurance Company ) * Nanotech Corporation * Zhuhai Nanker Integrated Circuit Co.,Ltd * Comfort Superpower Semiconductor (Beijing) Co.,Ltd * Technology Semiconductor Limited in Shenyang (TSLS TSLS Toxic shock-like syndrome, see there ) * Optoelectronics (Dalian) Co.,Ltd * Xi'an Xiyue Electronics Technology Co.,Ltd * Jilin Sino Microelectronics Co.,Ltd * Dandong Anshun Microelectronics Co.,Ltd * Lite-On Semiconductor Corp. * Fujian Fushun Microelectronics Co.,Ltd * Hangzhou Lion Microelectronics Co.,Ltd * Hangzhou Silan Integrated Circuit Co.,Ltd * Hynix-ST Semiconductor Co.,Ltd * Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) * United Microelectronics Company (UMC) * Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing SGX: C27 NASDAQ: CHRT (abbreviated CSM) is the world's fourth largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry, with its headquarters and main operations located in the Woodlands Industrial Park, Kranji Singapore. Ltd (Chartered) * DongbuAnam Semiconductor Co.,Ltd (DongbuAnam) * Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation Limited (ASMC) * Jazz Semiconductor * MagnaChip * Silterra * X-Fab * 1st silicon (Malaysia) * Tower Semiconductor * Episil Technologies * IBM For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c45856 |
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