1. Overview of the Worldwide Wafer Foundry Industry

1.1 Global Wafer Foundry Industry Continuing Steady Growth in 2018

1.2 Taiwanese Wafer Foundry Continues to Dominate the Landscape

2. Development Trends of the Worldwide Wafer Foundry Industry

2.1 Next Generation Memory Development Gains Increasing Attention

2.2 Chinese Wafer Foundries Still Lagging Behind Big Names

3. Development of Leading Vendors

3.1 TSMC

3.2 GlobalFoundries

3.3 UMC

3.4 Samsung

3.5 SMIC

4. Conclusion

4.1 Importance of Emerging Applications Keeps Rising

4.2 Foundries' Next Generation Memory Competition Gets Started

Appendix

Glossary of Terms

List of Companies

Development of the worldwide and Taiwanese wafer foundry industries, touching on their status of quo and their shipment value for the period 2015-2018

Figure 1 Worldwide Wafer Foundry Industry Shipment Value, 2015 – 2018

Figure 2 Global Semiconductor Market Share by Application, 2016

Figure 3 Taiwanese Wafer Foundry Industry Shipment Value, 2015 – 2018

Figure 4 Taiwanese Wafer Foundry Industry Shipment Value Share by Process Technology, 1Q 2015 - 1Q 2018

Figure 5 Comparison of 2016 and 2017 Major Taiwanese and Chinese Foundries' Advanced Processes

Figure 6 GlobalFoundries' Process Development Layout

Figure 7 SMIC's Gross Profit, 2015 - 2017

Table 1 Global Foundries' Ranking by Shipment Value, 2017

Table 2 Next Generation Memory Investors

Table 3 TSMC's Major R&D Plans

Table 4 GlobalFoundries Expansion Plans