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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (43250)	3/6/2001 6:10:22 PM
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Foundry revenues will hit $35.4 billion in 2004, says report Semiconductor Business News (03/06/01 13:22 p.m. PST) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Silicon foundry revenues will increase nearly five times between 1999 and 2004 despite the current slowdown in demand for processed wafers, said a new report from Cahners In-Stat Group here. "While the semiconductor industry braces for much slower growth in 2001, the foundry segment is expected to outperform the industry as a whole with foundry revenues expected to rise from $7.6 billion in 1999 to $35.4 billion in 2004," said Steve Cullen, director of In-Stat's Semiconductor Service unit. In-Stat said pure-play foundries will continue to push advanced process technologies ahead of integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), which produce their own chips in wafer fabs. Foundries will also lead the semiconductor industry's transition to 300-mm diameter wafers from today's mainstream 200-mm substrates, In-Stat said. With 500 to 600 fabless chip startups needing more production capacity, the need for foundry wafers will continue to grow faster than the rest of the industry, said the research group. In fact, some IDMs have decided to convert older wafer fabs into foundry plants to tap this growing business potential, the report said.