It is projected that Korea will become the world's largest fab investment country in 2022.

SEMI, an industry association representing the global electronics industry supply chain, recently released its 'World Fab Forecast' report.

According to this, global digitalization is expected to drive investments in semiconductor front-end fabs to approximately $90 billion in 2021, and a new record high of nearly $100 billion in 2022.

Investment in the foundry sector is expected to account for the largest portion of fab equipment spending, reaching approximately $44 billion in 2022.

Investment in the memory sector is projected to be around $38 billion, with DRAM and NAND in particular projected to reach $17 billion and $21 billion, respectively.

In addition, investment in the Micro/MPU sector in 2022 is expected to exceed $9 billion, in the discrete and power semiconductor sectors $3 billion, and in the analog semiconductor and other device sectors approximately $2 billion each.

Regionally, Korea is expected to lead global fab equipment investment with approximately $30 billion in 2022.

Taiwan is expected to follow with $26 billion, followed by China with $17 billion.

Japan is expected to come in fourth with about $9 billion. It is expected.

Europe and the Middle East are expected to come in fifth with $8 billion, a 74% increase from the previous year.

In addition, North America is expected to receive about $6 billion, and Southeast Asia about $2 billion.

SEMI's Fab Outlook report, used in this presentation, tracks approximately 1,417 semiconductor manufacturing facilities and provides specific data.