The latest statistics from IEKITIS plan show in the second quarter of 2012, Taiwan's overall IC industry output (including design, manufacturing, packaging, testing) amounted to NT $ 4,193 million, representing a growth of 16.4% compared to the first quarter of 2012. The industry has come out of the trough in the first quarter, full recovery in the second quarter. Quarter growth rate of the second quarter of 2012 is more than 10%,of which the output value of the IC manufacturing is more than 20%, pulling up sharply the overall performance of the IC industry output in the second quarter of 2012. For the IC design industry,at the second quarter of 2012 as the domestic IC design industry grabs more market opportunities for low-cost smart handheld devices, as well as mainland China feature phones, digital TV chip shipments growth, driving the performance of relevant industry revenue. In the second quarter of 2012, the output value of Taiwan's IC design industry is NT $ 1,010 million, compared with 2012 a growth of 12.8% in the first quarter. Taiwan's overall IC manufacturing output compared with the previous quarter, a substantial growth of 20.6% to reach NT $ 2,181 million, while only 2.9% growth compared to the same period last year. Performance of the industry: the foundry industry has a growth of 21.2% over the previous quarter, while a growth of 12.0% compared to the same period last year. Taiwan foundry industry benefits from the tight high-end process capacity, to maintain a better price, as well as smart phones and other communications applications market orders continued to inject so that the output value of the second quarter of 2012 showed a growth performance compared with the previous quarter and previous the year-over-year.