China to Dominate Fab Building

by Peter Clarke, EETimes

LONDON, Jun. 16, 2016 – 

The construction of at least 19 wafer fabs will start in 2016 and 2017 but that list will be dominated by China, which is responsible for more than half of them, according to industry body SEMI.

As a result spending on chipmaking equipment which had started slowly in 2016 will pick up and result in a market worth $36 billion in 2016, up 1.5 percent on 2015 and rise to $40.7 billion in 2017, up 13 percent year-on-year.

Fab equipment spending including new, secondary, and in-house declined by 2 percent in 2015. Activity in the 3D NAND, 10nm logic, and foundry segments is expected to push equipment spending up in 2016 and 2017.

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