The semiconductor market is down 31% in 2008. The Taiwan recession is the worst.


The International Semiconductor Equipment Materials Industry Association (SEMI) announced yesterday (26) that the global semiconductor equipment market reached US$29.52 billion in 2008, a 31% decrease from 2007. Taiwan’s semiconductor factory has reduced its capital expenditure by more than half, making it the worst recession. area.

In addition, SEMI statistics in 2008 semiconductor materials market reached 42.7 billion US dollars, a small increase of about 0.4% over the previous year, mainly due to the impact of rising polysilicon and gold prices, the market size is not decreasing.

SEMI announced the global semiconductor equipment and materials market statistics yesterday. Last year, the global semiconductor equipment market reached 29.52 billion US dollars, a 31% decrease from 2007's 42.77 billion US dollars. Although SEMI did not announce the 2009 estimate, most equipment manufacturers including applied materials believe that this year the market will fear Reduce it by 45% to 50%, leaving only about $15 billion.

Last year, due to the financial tsunami impact, semiconductor factories have greatly reduced capital expenditures and equipment investment. SEMI pointed out that China’s Taiwanese market spent more than half of its capital expenditures on wafer foundries, DRAM factories, and packaging and testing plants last year. With a surplus of 5.01 billion US dollars, the annual reduction rate reached 53%, ranking the highest in the world, and the equipment expenditure ranking also fell from the first to the third.

Although Japan is also affected by the poor semiconductor economy, IDM plants including Toshiba and Renesas are still expanding their production capacity by 12 inches, so the annual reduction rate is about 24.4%, and the market size is maintained at US$7.04 billion.

For the largest equipment purchase country. As for China's active development of the semiconductor industry, the construction of 12-inch factories such as Wuhan Plant and Shenzhen Plant, which are headed by SMIC, has slowed down. SMIC Shanghai and Beijing Plants have stopped capacity expansion, so the equipment market has dropped to 1.89 billion. The US dollar has an annual decline rate of 35.3%, which is second only to Taiwan.

Although semiconductor factories have reduced their capital expenditures and their capacity utilization rate has been affected by the poor economy, last year, the global semiconductor materials market did not decrease, and it reached a value of 42.7 billion US dollars, a small increase of about 0.4% from the previous year. In fact, the material market has not seen a sharp decline. The main reason is that raw material prices have risen sharply last year, including polysilicon prices, which reached a high point in the third quarter of last year. The spot price per kilogram once looked at $350, but now it has fallen to $100. As for the gold used in the packaging plant, the price has been maintained at more than 900 US dollars.

In terms of regions, Japan is one of the producers of polysilicon and silicon wafers, and Intel, AMD and other processor substrates are all produced in Japan, so it ranks among the world's largest semiconductor materials market, and Taiwan benefits from the packaging and testing plant. With a global market share of 70%, the demand for packaging materials ranks the highest in the world, so it is the second largest semiconductor material.

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