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Chartered to regain third place in IC Insights foundry rankings |
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Aug 04, 2006 at 04:30 PM |
 Although TSMC continues to dominate the pure-play foundry business with 50 percent market share and revenues expected to top $10 billion in 2006, IC Insights is projecting that Chartered Semiconductor will regain third place in the Top 10 rankings for 2006, displacing SMIC.
Chartered's renewed success is due in the main to its ability to ramp Fab 7, its 300mm fab in Singapore using an IBM 90nm process and SOI wafers. IC Insights believes Texas Instruments will start using Chartered in 2007, adding to its big named customers such as Microsoft and AMD.
The ‘Big 4' (TSMC, UMC, Chartered & SMIC) continued to control a significant potion of the foundry market. IC Insights calculates that is 84 percent of the total worldwide pure-play foundry market.
The research firm noted that the rapid growth seen in the last few years of foundries in China would slow going forward. In total, the Chinese foundries held 12.4 percent of the pure-play foundry market in 2005, up from only 4% in 2002. However, in 2006, IC Insights forecasts that the Chinese foundries will only increase their marketshare to only 12.6 percent.
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