1. Overview of the Worldwide and Taiwanese Wafer Foundry Industries
1.1 Worldwide Wafer Foundry Industry Growing at a Steady Pace in 2017
1.2 Taiwanese Wafer Foundry Industry Still Outperforms the Global in 2016
1.3 Taiwanese Foundries Lead in Market Share
2. Development Trends of the Worldwide Wafer Foundry Industry
2.1 Chinese Foundries Have Aggressive Capex Increase Plans
2.2 Major Foundries Seeking to Get a Head Start in Advanced Processes
2.3 Rising Importance of the Chinese Foundry Market to Lure More Foreign Investments
2.4 China's Share in Advanced Processes Remains Low
3. Development of Leading Vendors
3.1 TSMC
3.2 GlobalFoundries
3.3 UMC
3.4 Samsung
3.5 SMIC
4. Conclusion
4.1 Diversification of Processes Aims to Tap Different Needs
4.2 Surplus Capacity Concerns to Occur
Appendix
Glossary of Terms
List of Companies

Development of the worldwide and Taiwanese wafer foundry industries, touching on their status of quo and shipment value for the period 2015-2017

Figure 1: Worldwide Wafer Foundry Industry Shipment Value, 2015 – 2017
Figure 2: Taiwanese Wafer Foundry Industry Shipment Value, 2015 – 2017
Figure 3: Taiwanese Wafer Foundry Industry Shipment Value Share by Process Technology, 4Q 2014 – 1Q 2017
Figure 4: Comparison of Major Foundries' Capex, 2015-2017
Figure 5: Road Map of Major Foundries' Advanced Process Mass Production Roadmap
Figure 6: Comparison of Major Taiwanese and Chinese Foundries' Advanced Processes
Figure 7 Mass Production Schedules of GlobalFoundries’ 7nm Processes

Table 1: Major Foundries' Ranking by Shipment Value, 2014-2016
Table 2: Major Foundries' 12-inch Fab Deployment in China
Table 3 TSMC’s Key R&D Plans