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Foundry market (from 26) share of the pure-play foundry market
will remain relatively fl at through 2026.
for the total foundry market). As a re-
sult, the Chinese company share of the Although the China-based foundries plan
pure-play foundry market increased by 0.9 to take advantage of the huge amount of
points to 8.5% in 2021. IC Insights be- government and private investment that
lieves that the total Chinese company will be fl owing into the Chinese semicon-
ductor market infrastruc-
ture over the next fi ve years
(which became evident with
the huge jump in SMIC’s
capex outlays in 2020), it is
unlikely they will be able to
compete for leading-edge
foundry business.
Combined, the Chinese found-
ries are forecast to hold 8.8%
of the pure-play foundry
market in 2026, a level that
would be 2.6 points less than
their peak share of 11.4% in
2006. icinsights.com
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