Slowing growth in the smartphone market and the decline in demand for tablets immediately affected the contract manufacturing of semiconductor manufacturing services market dynamics. As noted by Gartner analysts, the results of last year's revenue on the market of contract semiconductor manufacturing rose by only 4.4% to $ 48.8 billion., While the three preceding years measured double-digit growth.
In warehouses have accumulated a sufficient number of chips, the demand for mobile devices, has fallen, and the PC market for a long time does not show positive trends. In fact, revenue growth was driven by contract manufacturers mostly Apple orders and redistribution of funds not backed by actual products deliveries . Market leaders in the face of TSMC was able to increase revenues by 5.5%, a special success enjoyed 20-nm and 16-nm products - manufactured using the latest FinFET.
If TSMC controls 54.3% of the market services for contract manufacturing of chips in terms of revenues, the share of these two players is much more modest: GlobalFoundries got only 9.6% of the market, and UMC the first time went to the third place with a share of close to 9.3%.
Samsung ranked fourth with 5.3% of the market, with its own production of chips for "internal use" the Korean giant in the statistics do not take into account. The status of the contract chip maker Samsung is ready to cooperate even with AMD, GlobalFoundries as a long-time technology partner of the Korean company, and the American giant has grown from manufacturing, AMD.
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