According to the publication EE Times, citing a fresh report on IC Insights, in the current half the three leaders of industry in the face of Samsung, Intel and TSMC will increase their capital expenditures by an average of 90% compared with the first half of the year. The breakdown by companies reveals that the maximum cost increase demonstrates Samsung (+ 120%), in second place will be TSMC (+ 92%), and closes the top three with Intel moderate their background + 61%.
These three companies control more than half the budget of capital expenditure in this sector half -. Almost $ 20 billion Other market participants, on the other hand, the expenses in the second half of the year decreased by 16% compared with the first half of the year. However, persistence "Big Three" in the development budget will allow to speak about the growth of 20% of the costs "on average in the hospital." We add that the semiconductor industry in the past year to reduce capital costs by 2%, and this year they will be increased on the strength of 3%.
Contract manufacturers such as TSMC and GlobalFoundries enhance its influence. In 2008, they received no more than 12% of the budget for capital expenditures, this share will rise to 34% in 2016. The second largest item of capital expenditures - funds for equipment and development for the production of solid-state memory. For this purpose, it takes up to 16% of the total budget.
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