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In 2024, the foundry industry continued to advance amidst market fluctuations and technological innovations. Leading foundries such as TSMC, SMIC, and Hua Hong Semiconductor have all released their annual financial reports. Looking ahead to 2025, TrendForce predicts that the industry's total outp...
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12-inch wafer fabs play a crucial role in semiconductor manufacturing. By the end of 2024, several major projects have made headlines. Production has commenced for five 12-inch wafer lines from Runpeng Semiconductor, Tiancheng Advanced, Yandong Microelectronics, Guangzhou Chip Semiconductor, and Hua...
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As 2025 unfolds, a personnel shake-up has taken place in Hua Hong Semiconductor, China’s second largest foundry. According to the company’s announcement and a report from Chinese media outlet ICsmart, it has named Peng Bai, former global vice president of Intel, as the new president, effective f...
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With 32 mature process wafer fabs set to be completed in China by the end of next year, Taiwanese wafer foundries are gearing up early in response to the "red alert." Faced with the pricing war, semiconductor insiders reveal that mature process foundries in Taiwan are anticipating a roughly 10% r...
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Recently, the seven major foundries —TSMC, GlobalFoundries, UMC, SMIC, Hua Hong Semiconductor, VIS, and PSMC—have successively released their third-quarter financial reports and held performance briefings to explain the semiconductor industry's business climate and the outlook for the next stage...