The global wafer foundry industry is highly concentrated with the top-five players taking up about 76% of the total shipments. The increasing share of orders released by IDMs and the proliferation of emerging application ICs such as CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs have been major growth factors to drive the industry's growth over the years. In addition, the rise of automotive electronics, IoT, and 5G applications have also boosted the demand for fingerprint sensor ICs, driver ICs, GPS ICs, and RF ICs. Hence, the market is expected to continue the steady growth this year. This report reviews the industry's development in 2017 and provides a future outlook for 2018 and beyond. Also included are development highlights of major players: TSMC, GlobalFoundries, UMC, Samsung, and SMIC.

Table of Contents
1. Overview of the Worldwide Wafer Foundry Industry
1.1 Global Wafer Foundry Industry Continuing Steady Growth in 2018
1.2 Taiwanese Wafer Foundry Continues to Dominate the Landscape
2. Development Trends of the Worldwide Wafer Foundry Industry
2.1 Next Generation Memory Development Gains Increasing Attention
2.2 Chinese Wafer Foundries Still Lagging Behind Big Names
3. Development of Leading Vendors
3.1 TSMC
3.2 GlobalFoundries
3.3 UMC
3.4 Samsung
3.5 SMIC
4. Conclusion
4.1 Importance of Emerging Applications Keeps Rising
4.2 Foundries' Next Generation Memory Competition Gets Started
Appendix
Glossary of Terms
List of Companies
List of Tables
Table 1 Global Foundries' Ranking by Shipment Value, 2017
Table 2 Next Generation Memory Investors
Table 3 TSMC's Major R&D Plans
Table 4 GlobalFoundries Expansion Plans
List of Figures
Figure 1 Worldwide Wafer Foundry Industry Shipment Value, 2015 – 2018
Figure 2 Global Semiconductor Market Share by Application, 2016
Figure 3 Taiwanese Wafer Foundry Industry Shipment Value, 2015 – 2018
Figure 4 Taiwanese Wafer Foundry Industry Shipment Value Share by Process Technology, 1Q 2015 - 1Q 2018
Figure 5 Comparison of 2016 and 2017 Major Taiwanese and Chinese Foundries' Advanced Processes
Figure 6 GlobalFoundries' Process Development Layout
Figure 7 SMIC's Gross Profit, 2015 - 2017

List of topics:

Development of the worldwide and Taiwanese wafer foundry industries, touching on their status of quo and their shipment value for the period 2015-2018
Development of the worldwide and Taiwanese wafer foundry industries, touching on their status of quo and their shipment value for the period 2015-2018
Chinese foundries' advanced process developments and developers and inventors of next generation memories such as MRAM, PCRAM, ReRAM FeRAM, and XPoint
Latest development of major players such as TSMC, GlobalFoundries, UMC, Samsung, and SMIC and includes global foundries' rankings for the period 2014-2017
Chinese foundries' advanced process developments and developers and inventors of next generation memories such as MRAM, PCRAM, ReRAM FeRAM, and XPoint
Latest development of major players such as TSMC, GlobalFoundries, UMC, Samsung, and SMIC and includes global foundries' rankings for the period 2014-2017
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