Taiwan maintains largest share of global IC wafer fab capacity, says IC Insights

The largest China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Sanan Optoelectronics will maintain its leadership by expanding production capacity to hike its global market share and by keeping innovating technologically, according to the company......»»

As of December 2020, only TSMC was among the wafer capacity leaders in each of the main wafer size categories ranked by IC Insights. The Taiwan-based foundry had the most 200mm wafer capacity last year, and ranked second in 300mm wafer capacity......»»

The world's top-five wafer capacity leaders each had capacity of more than 1,000,000 wafer starts per month, with their combined capacity representing 53% of the world's total wafer capacity at the end of 2019, according to IC Insights......»»

  Shares of Terminix Global Hldgs (NYSE:TMX) rose 0.1% in pre-market trading after the company reported Q1 results. Quarterly Results Earnings per share increased 275.00% year over year to $0.30, which beat the estimate of $0.22. read more.....»»

Nanya Technology holds an around 3% share of the DRAM market, and is striving to defend its global market share with an additional 12-inch wafer fab set to come online in 2024, according to company president Pei-Ing Lee......»»

  Shares of Global Ship Lease (NYSE:GSL) fell 0.1% after the company reported Q4 results. Quarterly Results Earnings per share rose 14.81% year over year to $0.31, which missed the estimate of $0.43. read more.....»»

Foundry and backend capacity constraints resulting in a global shortage of semiconductors will likely persist through 2022, according to Silicon Motion Technology, a Taiwan-based NAND flash device controller specialist......»»

China's Industry Ministry Urges Chipmakers To Increase Production Capacity All does not seem to be well in the world's largest auto market - especially now as the ongoing global semiconductor shortage is hitting the country where it hurts.  .....»»

Shares of CDK Global (NASDAQ:CDK) fell in after-market trading after the company reported Q2 results. Quarterly Results Earnings per share fell 26.25% year over year to $0.59, which missed the estimate of $0.65. read more.....»»

  Shares of Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) fell 0.1% in pre-market trading after the company reported Q4 results. Quarterly Results Earnings per share rose 11.11% over the past year to $1.80, which beat the estimate of $1.76. read more.....»»

  Shares of Berry Global Group (NYSE:BERY) rose 3.1% in pre-market trading after the company reported Q1 results. Quarterly Results Earnings per share increased 100.....»»

Taiwan's wafer foundry houses are under increasing pressure to allocate more capacity for automotive chips, which in turn could undermine shipments of Taiwan-based IC suppliers in the second half of 2021, according to industry sources......»»

Taiwan's III-V IC firms including GaAs foundries Win Semiconductors and Advanced Wireless Semiconductor (AWSC) as well as epi-wafer suppliers Visual Photo.....»»

Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid attempts to put Tesla's share moves in some perspective, pointing out that the company has stood out this year: “it has increased +704% and is now larger than the next five largest global auto companies combined.”.....»»

Shares of Global Ship Lease (NYSE:GSL) were flat in pre-market trading after the company reported Q1 results. Quarterly Results Earnings per share increased 34.09% year over year to $0.59, which beat the estimate of $0.19. read more.....»»

Over the past decade, the IC industry has been paring down its older capacity as manufacturers have consolidated or transitioned to the fab-lite .....»»

Regional marketshares of IDMs (companies operating wafer fabs) and fabless companies, and total IC sales were led by US-headquartered companies in 2019, according to IC Insights......»»

GlobalWafers has seen part of its overseas silicon wafer production affected by the coronavirus pandemic and will adjust its global capacity deployments to sustain normal shipments to clients, according to the firm's chairperson Doris Hsu......»»

Global airlines are fast running out of cash after cutting capacity by 90% or even grounding entire fleets due to the broad travel restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus, calling into question the survival of several firms......»»

Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it plans to boost oil production capacity for the first time in more than a decade, a day after it announced a record high hike in crude supply in a battle for market share that has hammered global prices this week......»»