subject: The Foundry Is No Longer Involved In Chip Production Capacity Statistics [print this page] The foundry is no longer involved in chip production capacity statistics
Located in Washington, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced the second quarter of this year, wafer capacity statistics report, the data show that the global chip production capacity over the first quarter fell 14 percent.
However, compared with before the Semiconductor International Capacity Statistics Association (SICAS) released statistical reports, the participants of the report a great change, and there is no chain or an increase of data.
Most noteworthy is that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics (UMC) and Nanya several Taiwanese companies are no longer involved in the SICAS statistical items. In addition, this recent report did not provide foundry capacity or foundry capacity utilization data. Has been acquired by Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor Corporation are not participants in the statistics column.
The report shows that the second quarter, capacity utilization was 92.2%, but due to changes in the participants, the report can not be compared with the previous quarter's data.
TSMC has decided not to participate in the productivity statistics project, so the other two companies also withdrew from the Ebun Caldeira, director of the SIA financial and market research. Caldeira refused to disclose the the TSMC exit reason, she said: "We really are trying to convince TSMC to rejoin."
Caldeira said: "If we can convince TSMC to rejoin as soon as possible, it would be possible to re-announced second quarter data."
SICAS statistics production can account for only 57% of the total capacity of the global semiconductor accounted for 88%, while in the 1990s, The SICAS production data for the first time, when released, said Bill McClean, president of market research firm IC Insights. TSMC, UMC and Nanya Technology, before exiting, SICAS statistics production capacity accounted for more than 70 percent of global chip production capacity.
McClean said, SICAS statistics released is becoming more and more representative, but such statistics to estimate capacity utilization level is still very useful, other participating enterprises because of the statistical items on the overall capacity utilization still very representative.
Asked why several Taiwanese companies will withdraw from the statistical project, McClean said that may be because of the global foundry production capacity, TSMC and UMC occupy a share too much and do not want to continue each month to publish their detailed manufacturing data.
The SICAS The report shows that the global semiconductor capacity utilization in the second quarter to 92.2 percent, down slightly from 93.7 percent in the first quarter.
South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries to give up $ 700 million solar photovoltaic power plant projects
According to foreign media quoted the words of a senior management reports for South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries (Hyundai Heavy), Hyundai Heavy Industries to cancel the plan was originally scheduled in the United States, Arizona, to build two solar photovoltaic power station.
By the global economic downturn, Hyundai Heavy Industries decided to give up the total value of $ 700 million investment. In August 2010, Hyundai Heavy Industries said it would for green energy company Matinee Energy to build two solar power plants, total installed capacity of 175MW.
Namibia won 500MW PV power plant project
Usually, the world's large-scale photovoltaic farms in the southwestern United States and other places, but now more and more countries began to build true utility-scale solar projects in Africa, there are some that have been named, and the future may be more and more.
South Africa continues to audit some of the 300MW solar farm project, but Namibia has been to build a larger factory in advance, a 500MW solar installations. The details are still being worked out, the official will be announced in later this month, this project plans, informed sources who asked not to be named.
Namibia is committed to the development of such a project actually would like to fill the vacancy of electricity purchased from South Africa. Namibia to use to import electricity for many years, but given the demand for electricity in South Africa, Namibia needs to develop its own power projects. "He said.
The Namibian National grid capacity is about 8GW, and is considering a variety of methods, including the use of fossil fuel power generation to fill the gap in access to electricity from South Africa. However, Namibia finally selected can significantly save the cost of solar power generation.
"This can reduce by half the electricity, Namibia in the past has been to pay 40 cents / kWh higher tariff," he said. The country signed a 25-year power purchase agreement, the company behind the project want to build a general contracting (EPC) project will develop a number of transmission lines. "The key is the distribution lines for each site, 500-megawatt project has occupied thousands of acres of land, distributed sites should do more," he said. Through the use of the more dispersed sites, will help ensure that when the cloud cover part of the site will not affect the normal working of the entire project.
Africa's solar energy market is heating up. "There is a huge demand, we do not expect every country such, but the conditions of the countries should take advantage of the favorable factors to make the project more meaningful," he said, "Namibia itself has the world's best lighting conditions." This is a stable country, has a good credit rating, which makes it such a project for the construction is ideal. "This is a good market, you only need to be able to weigh the risks," the source said.
