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Domestic semiconductor fab equipment investment increased by 130% compared to last year

Google 우선 소스Published2017.09.13 16:47
There will be record investment in semiconductor fab equipment this year.

According to the World Fab Outlook report recently released by SEMI, there is projected to be record investment in semiconductor fab equipment in 2017.

Among the 296 front-end facilities and lines tracked by SEMI, 30 facilities and lines showed spending of over $500 million on fab equipment. Spending on new and refurbished fab equipment is projected to increase by 37% in 2017, reaching a new annual spending record of $55 billion. Furthermore, it is forecast that fab equipment spending will increase by another 5% in 2018 to reach approximately $58 billion, setting a new record high. The previous record high was approximately $40 billion, recorded in 2011. Spending in 2017 is projected to increase by about $15 billion compared to this figure.

According to the SEMI report, an analysis of 2017 spending by region revealed that the region with the highest equipment investment was Korea, which increased from $8.5 billion reported in 2016 to approximately $19.5 billion in 2017. This represents a 130% growth compared to the previous year.

It was further predicted that South Korea’s spending would remain the largest in 2018, while China was expected to rise to become the second-largest country in equipment spending with $12.5 billion, a 66% increase from the previous year. Double-digit growth is expected in the Americas, Japan, and Europe/Middle East, while growth in other regions is expected to remain below 10 percent.

The report projected that Samsung’s fab equipment spending would more than double in 2017 to $16 billion to $17 billion for front-end equipment, with an additional $15 billion to be spent in 2018. Other memory manufacturers are also expected to significantly increase spending, bringing total memory-related expenditures for the year to $30 billion. Other market segments, including foundry ($17.8 billion), MPU ($3 billion), logic ($1.8 billion), discrete, power, and LED ($1.8 billion), will also invest heavily in equipment. These product segments are expected to lead investment in 2018 as well.
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