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Market Trends: Rising Costs of Production Limit Availability of Leading-Edge Fabs
17 September 2012
 
Bob Johnson   Dean Freeman   David Christensen   Samuel Tuan Wang  

Increasing costs of manufacturing equipment will drive the average cost of semiconductor fabs to between $15 billion and $20 billion by 2020.




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Table of Contents

Contents
  • Introduction
  • Market Trend
    • Minimum Feature Sizes in Leading-Edge Semiconductor Manufacturing Continue to Decline
    • The Cost of Equipment Is Increasing With Each New Node
    • Fab Costs Are Increasing
  • Market: Fab Capital Spending Concentration Increases
  • Contrarian View: 450 mm Achieves Its Stated Cost Goals Sooner Than Expected
  • Vendors to Watch
  • Conclusions
  • Recommended Reading
Tables
Table 1.
Companies Analyzed
Table 2.
300 mm Equipment Costs per Node (Millions of Dollars per 1,000 wspm)
Table 3.
Fab Capacity and Node Data
Table 4.
Capex and Revenue Requirements
Table 5.
Leading Capital Investment Companies
Figures
Figure 1.
Minimum Feature Sizes for Leading-Edge Semiconductor Manufacturing
Figure 2.
Average Wafer Fab Equipment Costs per 1,000 wspm
Figure 3.
300 mm Average Wafer Fab Equipment Cost Projections
Figure 4.
Historical and Projected Fab Costs
Figure 5.
Capital Spending Concentration




This document is published in the following Dataquest Market Insights:
 
Semiconductor Industry Worldwide
Semiconductor Applications Worldwide
Semiconductor and Electronic Manufacturing Worldwide
Semiconductor Industry Asia/Pacific




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