According to the final statistics released by the International Research and advisory firm Gartner (Gartner), in 2012 the global semiconductor foundry market capitalization is of $ 34.6 billion, representing a growth of 16.2% over 2011. TSMC's chairman, Morris Chang said they forecast the foundry market annual growth rate this year will have around 10%, but still conservative views of Gartner, only that the foundry market this year only by 7.6% year-on-year, about the scale of more than $ 37 billion. Duan Wang, research vice president at Gartner, said semiconductor sales are over 2012 mobile devices PC and laptop semiconductor revenue, Action for the application of advanced technology is also driven by the target year of the foundry market revenue for the first time. In addition, the major foundries in 2012 not only to enhance the yield of the 28-nanometer technology, the vast majority of fab through tuned to enhance the capacity of the traditional process.TSMC advanced process successfully retained its position as the leading foundry, cell Luo Fangde, (GlobalFoundries) due to Dresden, Germany (Dresden) 32 nm fab excellent yield and next-generation 45-nanometer wafer production and supply in among the second, as the market share of the UMC due to wafer to reduce the volume decline, ranked third in the world.The industry is still more noteworthy is South Korea's Samsung, foundry revenue came fifth in the world rely on OEM for Apple A6 and A6X chip, moved up four last year, revenue was $ 1.295 billion, annual growth rate of 175.5%. Gartner said that the growth of the foundry business from customers stocking, be the smart phone market growth in demand driven by the demand for advanced technology and wafer. The second half of last year, China and other emerging markets has sharply risen in the demand for low-cost smart phone, the market demand 40 nanometer wafer fab outperformed the seasonal normal levels, ample capacity and 40 nm and 28 nm yield excellent foundry, there are good revenue growth.Gartner pointed out that despite the increase in advanced process shipments, the market share of the market of mature process, however, is subject to change. Part of the fab 65 nm to 0.18-micron wafer shipments near record highs, the main supply power management chip, high-voltage process, embedded flash memory, CMOS image sensors, micro-electromechanical components (MEMS), with a market share of enhance the equipment of the main reasons for the continuous improvement of the performance, as well as the traditional wafer process adjustment cost savings.Distinguish from the customer point of view, last year, the vast majority of foundry revenue from the IC design houses (Fabless) customers has increased, while the proportion of revenues from the integrated components manufacturer (IDM) customers flat or even decline, showing specializes in multi-chip for mobile devices from IC design houses.