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TSMC and GlobalFoundries Led Foundry Market in 2013 – IC Insights

by Anton Shilov
01/29/2014 | 11:55 PM

Without any surprises, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and GlobalFoundries remained the top two contract makers of semiconductors in 2013, according to IC Insights. What was unexpected is that Samsung Electronics lost sales and was left behind by United Microelectronics Corp., which is now No. 3 foundry in the world, again.

In total, the top 13 foundries in the world represented 91% of total foundry sales in 2013. For comparison, the leading 13 foundries accounted for 84% of total foundry market share in 2009, the year before Samsung dramatically ramped up its IC foundry production for Apple.

TSMC, by far, remained the leader with almost $20 billion in sales in 2013. In fact, TSMC’s 2013 sales were over 4x that of second-ranked GlobalFoundries and 10x the sales of the fifth-ranked foundry SMIC. As shown, there are only three IDM foundries in the ranking – Samsung, IBM, and MagnaChip. Samsung was easily the largest IDM foundry in 2013 with over 8x the sales of IBM, the second-largest IDM foundry.

In 2013, Samsung had a 15% increase in its foundry sales and was less than $10 million behind the third-largest IC foundry in the world – UMC. Samsung has the ability (i.e., leading-edge capacity and a huge capital spending budget) and desire to become a major force in the IC foundry business. It is estimated that the company’s dedicated IC foundry capacity reached 150 thousand 300mm wafers per month in Q4 2013. Using an average-revenue-per-wafer figure of $3000, it is estimated that Samsung’s IC foundry business segment has the potential to produce annual sales of about $5.4 billion.

Powerchip has recently done very well in the foundry business after struggling to remain competitive in the DRAM business. Powerchip announced in January 2011 that it would stop selling DRAMs under its own brand name to focus on producing other devices such as LCD drivers, CMOS image sensors, flash memory, and power management devices both for self-branded products and on a foundry basis for others. The move came after Powerchip agreed to sell all of its DRAM-production output to Elpida, which had been buying about half of the company's commodity DRAMs under a previous foundry agreement.

In 2011, Powerchip’s foundry sales were $374 million, which represented 29% of the company’s semiconductor sales. In 2012, Powerchip’s foundry sales surged 67% to $625 million, which represented 67% of the company’s total semiconductor sales, and in 2013, Powerchip’s disclosed that it had made the complete transition to a pure-play foundry with sales reaching $1175 million, 100% of the company’s total IC sales. Slowly but surely the company has transformed itself into a major IC foundry.

With the barriers to entry (e.g., fab costs, access to leading edge technology, etc.) into the foundry business being so high and rising, IC Insights expects the “top 13” market share figure to continue to slowly rise in the future.