Foundries and memory IC suppliers maintain strongest capacity presence.
IC Insights recently released its new Global Wafer Capacity 2021-2025 report that provides in-depth detail, analyses, and forecasts for IC industry capacity by wafer size, process geometry, region, and product type through 2025. Included in the report is a ranking of the 25 largest wafer capacity leaders in terms of monthly installed capacity in 200mm-equivalents as of December 2020.
Each of the top-five wafer capacity leaders had capacity of at least 1.5 million wafer starts per month (Figure 1). The combined capacity of the top five companies represented 54% of total global wafer capacity in December 2020, up one point from 53% in 2019. For comparison, in the year 2009, the top 10 wafer capacity leaders held 54% of total global capacity and the top five leaders accounted for 36% of capacity.
