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Form： laoyaoba.com 2018/3/28 Browse：5226 Keywords: Wafer China
According to the latest content of the “Global Fab Forecast Report” announced at the end of February 2018, global fab equipment spending will increase by 5% in 2019 and will continue to grow substantially for the fourth consecutive year. Unless the original plan is drastically changed, mainland China will be the main driver for the growth of equipment spending for global fabs in 2018 and 2019. The global fab investment situation is strong. Since the mid-1990s, the industry has not seen a record of three-year growth in equipment spending.
SEMI (International Semiconductor Industry Association) predicts that global fab equipment spending will be topped by Samsung in 2018 and 2019, but the investment amount is not as high as 2017. In contrast, in order to support multinational and local fab projects, fab equipment spending in mainland China in 2018 will increase by 57% from the previous year and by 60% in 2019. The amount of equipment spending in mainland China is expected to surpass South Korea by 2019 and become the highest spending area in the world.
Following the record amount of investment in 2017, Korean fab equipment spending will drop by 9% to 18 billion U.S. dollars in 2018, and will drop by 14% in 2019 to 16 billion U.S. dollars, but spending in both years will exceed 2017. Before the year. Regarding Taiwan, which has the world’s third-largest wafer fab investment, wafer equipment spending will decline by 10% in 2018 to approximately US$10 billion, but it is expected to rebound by 15% in 2019 to more than US$11 billion.
As the previously built fabs entered the equipment-installation phase, the spending on wafer fab equipment in mainland China continued to increase. There were 26 wafer fabs that started to set records, and equipment will be installed one after another this year and next. However, local companies are expected to increase wafer fab investment in 2019, which will increase from 33% in 2017 to 45% in 2019.