According to the monthly installed capacity rankings of global semiconductor factories at the end of last year, four of the top five factories are memory factories and one is a foundry.
The top five factories with installed monthly capacity at the end of 2020 are ranked in the order of Samsung Electronics, TSMC, Micron, SK Hynix, Kioxia, and Witten. The top five factories together account for 54% of the world’s total production capacity.
Among them, Samsung Electronics ranked first with a monthly production capacity of 3.060 million 8-inch equivalent wafers at the end of last year, and TSMC ranked second with 2.719 million 8-inch equivalent wafers.
Ranked sixth to tenth semiconductor plant late last year with the top five producers can produce has been a marked drop, the sixth giant Intel up to 884,000 8-inch wafer Jordan, seventh maker UMC up 7 7.2 Wan 8-inch Jordan wafers, the eighth to tenth are GlobalFoundries, Texas Instruments, SMIC, etc.
Samsung is the world’s largest memory plant. At the end of last year, its installed monthly capacity increased by 4% annually to 3.060 million 8-inch equivalent wafers, accounting for 14.7% of the world’s total production capacity.
The slowdown in production capacity growth last year was due to the transfer of part of the DRAM production capacity of Line 13, which accounts for 11% of its total production capacity, to CMOS image sensors.
However, Samsung invested US$10.5 billion in the fourth quarter of last year to increase memory and foundry production capacity, and it is expected that the monthly capacity growth rate at the end of this year will be better than its peers.
TSMC’s installed monthly production capacity at the end of last year increased by 9% to 2.719 million 8-inch equivalent wafers, making it the second-largest in the world in terms of total production capacity and accounting for 13.1% of total global production capacity.
TSMC actively expanded its advanced process production capacity last year, including the first phase expansion project of Nanke Fab 14, the tenth phase project of Zhongke Fab 15.
The first and second phases of Nanke Fab 18, all of that were put into production last year, and are firmly in the world. The largest logic capacity and the largest extreme ultraviolet (EUV) capacity semiconductor factory.
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