Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, has been struggling with severe ongoing shortages of chips, reports New Electronics. "Not only has the company been struggling with falling demand in China, as people have been forced to remain shut in doors,...
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By 2030, China will be ‘world champion’ in global semiconductor – DigiTimes
Jan 17, 2022
Based on the recent report from SIA, the China semiconductor industry grew 30.6% in 2020, reports DigiTimes. If the growth rate continues, by 2030, DigiTimes expects it to become a “world champion in the semiconductor industry”.
TSMC then continues to surge in the foundry sector and surpass other competitors in the world. In 2022, it expects to grow 29% in sales revenue. Many Taiwan semiconductor companies also expressed high interest in automobile chips and welcome more cooperation with mainstream carmakers.
China reports robust semiconductor industry growth despite US sanctions: Although some of its key semiconductor industry players were put on the Entity List by the US government since 2019, China managed to register double-digit growth in the revenues of all of its semiconductor sub-sectors in 2020, pushing up global market shares to challenge Taiwan and the US, according to several recent reports.
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