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with the rise of the fabless ic companies in china over the past 10 years, the demand for foundry services has also risen in that country.
figure 1 shows that the china market was the only major region that showed an increase in pure-play foundry sales last year.
moreover, the european and japanese pure-play foundry markets each displayed a double-digit decline in 2019.
china’s total share of the 2018 pure-play foundry market jumped by five percentage points as compared to 2017 to 19%, exceeding the share held by the rest of the asia-pacific region by five points.
overall, china was responsible for essentially all of the total pure-play foundry market increase in 2018. however, in 2019, the u.s./china trade war served to slow economic growth in china and the country’s foundry marketshare increased only one percentage point last year to 20%.
in total, pure-play foundry sales in china jumped by 42% in 2018 to $10.7 billion, more than 8x the 5% increase for the total pure-play foundry market that year.
moreover, in 2019, pure-play foundry sales to china increased by 6%, eight points better than the 2% decline registered for the total pure-play foundry market last year.
in 2019, tsmc stated that about 25% of its 400 customers are based in china. tsmc and umc each registered double-digit sales increases to china last year. umc showed the highest sales increase into china with a 19% jump. this increase was driven by the continued ramp up of its 300mm fab 12x located in xiamen, china, which opened in late 2016 and has a current capacity of about 22.7k 300mm wafers per month.
in contrast, it appears that many of china-based smic’s chinese customers encountered slow business conditions. smic’s 2019 sales in china dropped by 8% as compared to a total company sales decline of 7% last year.
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