The total wafer capacity of these five IC manufacturers accounts for more than half of the global total capacity

Published on: December 31, 2021 read: 3 source: Youxin International

By the end of 2019, the world's top five companies had a monthly production capacity of more than 1000000 wafers. The production capacity of the top five companies accounted for 53% of the total global wafer production capacity. IC insights said in its global wafer production capacity report for 2020-2024.

By the end of 2019, the world's top five companies had a monthly production capacity of more than 1000000 wafers. The production capacity of the top five companies accounted for 53% of the total global wafer production capacity. IC insights said in its global wafer production capacity report for 2020-2024.

In contrast, the top five capacity leaders accounted for 36% of global capacity in 2009. The production capacity of other semiconductor leading manufacturers, including Intel (817000 wafers per month), liandian (753000 wafers per month), global foundries, Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics, decreased rapidly in the top five.

As of December 2019, Samsung has the largest wafer production capacity, with 2.9 million 200mm equivalent wafers per month. It accounts for 15.0% of the total global capacity, of which about two-thirds are used to manufacture DRAM and NAND flash memory devices. Major ongoing construction projects include large new factories in Huacheng Heping Ze, South Korea, and Xi'an, China.

In the second place is TSMC, which is the largest pure wafer foundry in the world, with a monthly production capacity of about 2.5 million wafers, accounting for 12.8% of the total global production capacity.

Micron has the third largest production capacity at the end of 2019, slightly more than 1.8 million wafers, accounting for 9.4% of the global production capacity. Meguiar's capacity growth in 2019 benefited from the opening of a new 300mm wafer plant at its plant in Singapore. The company also acquired Intel shares in the im flash joint venture plant in Leahy, Utah. Micron plans to open a second Fab in Manassas, Virginia, in 2020.

By the end of 2019, the fourth largest capacity holder is SK Hynix, with a monthly wafer capacity of nearly 1.8 million wafers (accounting for 8.9% of the total global capacity). More than 80% of them are used to manufacture DRAM and NAND flash memory chips. In 2019, the company completed the construction of a new M15 wafer plant in Qingzhou, South Korea, and a new wafer plant (C2F) in Wuxi, China. Its next large Fab project is fab M16 plant in Lichuan, South Korea.

The fifth company is memory IC supplier kioxia (formerly Toshiba memory), which has 1.4 million wafers per month (accounting for 7.2% of the global total capacity), including a large amount of NAND flash memory capacity for its wafer factory investment and technology development partner Western Digital.

The five largest pure wafer foundries in the industry - TSMC, Globalfoundries, UMC, SMIC and Powerchip (including nexchip) - are among the top 12 capacity leaders. As of December 2019, the total capacity of these five foundries is about 4.8 million wafers per month, accounting for about 24% of the total capacity of global wafer factories.