TSMC continue to hold more than 50% share of the top-10 semiconductor foundries in 2014

While the worldwide semiconductor revenue grew by a modest 7.9% to reach a total sales revenue of $339.8 billion in 2014, the worldwide semiconductor foundry market grew by 16.1 percent in 2014 to achieve $46.9 billion in revenue, according to market researcher Gartner. The biggest jump in the semiconductor foundry market growth was earlier seen in 2010 which was estimated to have grown by >20%. After 2010, semiconductor foundry industry continuously growing at a rate of more than 10% every year. 28 nm node is most growth-enabling node for top three semiconductor foundries; TSMC, UMC and also Globalfoundries to increase their revenue and ranking. TSMC could do even better than others due to success of its 20 nm production. TSMC has a share of 53.7% in the total foundry market, and has increased its revenue by 5 billion in 2014, according to Gartner. In first quarter of 2015, TSMC has reported a revenue of NT dollar 222.0 3 billion, a decrease of 0.2% compared to fourth quarter of 2014. TSMC is reported to have generated its 30% of revenue from 28 nm process node, and 16% of its revenue is from 20 nm process. However for the second quarter of 2015, TSMC expects a sales revenue in the range of NT$ 204 billion-$207 billion, quite a drop from the first quarter of 2015. Going further TSMC expects its revenue to recover to growth path in the third quarter of 2015. TSM...