The Platinum reports provide analyses of the foundry industry, starting from TrendForce’s memory industry analysis and application demand in the downstream, extending to the semiconductor upstream, encompassing wafer production capacity, process node roadmap, and capacity utilization of each fab. The Platinum reports provide detailed analyses of foundries' competitiveness and capacity utilization rates, specifically focusing on major players including TSMC, UMC, Samsung, SMIC, and GlobalFoundries, etc.. The Platinum reports also discuss the future outlook of the foundry market.
The latest export control imposed by the US Department of Commerce not only restricts TSMC and Samsung from shipping 16nm and below chips that exceed the standard computing power to China...
TSMC achieved a small QoQ growth of 2.4% in overall wafer shipment in 4Q24 thanks to stocking activities for new smartphones and ongoing robustness in demand for AI-related HPC chips...
According to global market intelligence firm TrendForce, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck southern Taiwan at 12:17 AM today, January 21st, 2025. The earthquake’s maximum intensity reached level 6...
Samsung Foundry is turning conservative for its Capex plans of 2025 after having experienced difficulties stemming from EOL, migration, and obtainment of 3/2nm orders for some of the products among clients...
According to the latest investigation by global market intelligence firm TrendForce, after Huawei’s attempts to circumvent US trade restrictions were exposed in early November 2024...
According to the latest research by global market intelligence firm TrendForce, shipments of chips under NVIDIA’s new Blackwell platform, which is set to launch in 2025...
According to global market intelligence firm TrendForce, several factors are causing foundries’ capacity utilization rates in 1Q25 to exceed expectations. These include...
Regarding the progress on 2nm, TSMC has scheduled mass production for N2 in 2H25, with tape outs and pilot runs successively initiated for early clients...
The Diamond reports cover major foundries such as TSMC, UMC, Samsung, SMIC, and GlobalFoundries, etc. The Diamond reports provide extended analyses of these foundries' production capacity figures, process node migration and capacity utilization rates. Furthermore, the Diamond reports discuss the competition among foundries and among major regional markets, including Mainland China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, etc. The dynamics of competition and cooperation, together with capacity utilization rates of specific nodes, wafer prices, wafer input from major clients at advanced nodes, etc., are all especially highlighted in the Diamond reports.