KOREA ECONOMIC WEEKLY: INTEL LEADS LIST FOR FACILITY INVESTMENTS
99% match; The Korea Economic Daily ; 11-Sep-2000 12:00:00 am ; 146 words
BY COUNTRY, US-BASED SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCERS LED THE PACK
World semiconductor giants are setting aside an increasing amount of money for facility investment, according to IC Insights Inc.
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, IC Insights is a provider of market research and analysis reports and services for the semiconductor industry.
The firm reported on August 28 that as many as 18 chipmakers each plan to spend more than $1 billion in facility investments this year, a 2-fold jump from 9 a year ago.
Intel of the US leads the list, with planned expenditures of $6 billion in expansion of its chip factories in fiscal 2000, up 82 percent from the previous year.
Following Intel are Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) with $4.7 billion, STMicroelectronics with $3 billion, Texas Instruments with $2.7 billion and Samsung Electronics with $2.4 billion. share of investment to revenues with 34 percent, followed by Japan with 21 percent, Taiwan with 19 percent and Europe with 13 percent. Korea's share was ranked last, at 3 percent.
Top-10 facility investment sum for fiscal 2000, preliminary (unit: $1 billion)
Company Amount % Change (from previous year)
Intel 6.0 82
TSMC 4.69 154
STMicroelectr. 3.0 123
Texas Instr. 2.7 125
Samsung Electronics 2.4 33
UMC 2.4 40
Motorola 2.3 49
Philips 2.0 202
NEC 1.96 49
Hitachi 1.9 47
(Source: IC Insights) |
