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.
Looking at changes to Samsung Foundry’s 8-inch orders for 2025, the tendency of localized China for China production...
TSMC announced on March 4th to be investing US$100 billion in the US for three new phases, two advanced packaging plants, and one R&D center, in Arizona...
Global market intelligence firm TrendForce reports that TSMC announced on March 4th its intention to increase its investment in advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the United States...
Global market intelligence firm TrendForce reports that the global foundry industry displayed diverging trends in 4Q24...
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...