Asian Share of Global Fab Capacity May Top 69% by 2019

by Alan Patterson - EETimes

TAIPEI, Mar. 02, 2015 – 

"Real men have fabs." May those words of former AMD Chairman W.J. "Jerry" Sanders III live forever.

If we take Sanders' statement as axiomatic, the real men are in Asia.

Asia is expected to account for a new record, nearly 70% of the world's fab capacity, by 2019, according to a new report from IC Insights.

South Korea and Taiwan together accounted for 40.5 percent of the world's installed fab capacity by the end of last year, according to the report, which forecasts that their share of total capacity will grow to 42.6 percent by 2019.

The only other nation that's expected to grow its fab capacity is China, forecast to increase to 10.9 percent in 2019 from the current 9.2 percent share.

Add Japan's forecast capacity of 16.2% into the mix, and Asia's total expected capacity comes to 69.9 percent by the end of this decade.

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