The legal person pointed out that although the memory market surged sharply last year due to sharp spikes in prices, Samsung, SK hynix and Micron and other memory manufacturers revenue and profits soared, but because the memory area of Taiwan is not large, unable to grasp the bargaining power, so the memory price until Before the end of last year, there was a clear rise.
Observing the semiconductor output value of the United States and Japan last year benefited from the growth of shipments in the memory and IC design industries, which led to a substantial increase in output value, of which the total sales value in the US semiconductor market reached 85.8 billion U.S. dollars, up 35% year-on-year; the semiconductor market in Japan Reaching 36.6 billion U.S. dollars, up 13.3% from 2016.
From a regional point of view, the European semiconductor market value of 38.3 billion US dollars, an increase of 17.1%; Asian semiconductor market value of 248.8 billion US dollars, an increase of 19.4% .In 2017 the global semiconductor market total sales value of 4,122 billion US dollar, up 21.6% over the previous year.
Looking forward to this year's total output value of Taiwan's semiconductor industry, it is estimated that Taiwan's total output will be 2.61 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.8% over last year. IC manufacturing is expected to grow by 5.9%, including foundry and memory and MCU fields The foundry will grow by 5.1%. The memory and MCUs will grow by as much as 12.1% with an output value of 182 billion yuan. The IC design industry will grow by 6.6% to 657.8 billion yuan.
The legal person said that there is still a chance this year in the field of DRAM will be positive. In addition, the MCU industry has benefited from the rise of demand for Internet of Things (IoT), and the application has started to move toward 32-bit products. The output value has the opportunity to climb, followed by artificial intelligence (AI) With the IC design industry shipped more diversified, and 5G will begin trial operation next year, pre-test will also bring a wave of small quantities of RF components shipments, IC design and production growth can be expected.