Market research firm Semico Research published this year semiconductor industry capital spending forecast, Samsung still top, but the original second place Intel (Intel) is decreasing instead of increasing capital expenditures, ranked TSMC has been replaced.
Samsung Semiconductor is the main growth this year, which is also reflected in its capital expenditures. The report estimates that Samsung Semiconductor capital spending will come to $ 15 billion, far ahead of second TSMC's $ 10.8 billion, and Intel's $ 8.7 billion.
After the top three in order, is, Globalfoundries (Globalfoundries), SK Hynix, Sony, Toshiba, UMC, Inotera, SMIC (SMIC), SanDisk and Qualcomm. It is worth mentioning that, Sony this year shot up CMOS sensing capacity, capital expenditure growth of 200%.
Overall, the semiconductor industry capital spending this year will come to $ 68.7 billion, compared with 2014 growth of 9%, which will rewrite the record.