Taiwan's reelection in 2013 global semiconductor equipment and materials investment champion. TSMC is as leader, this year Taiwan's semiconductor equipment and materials continued to lead the global amount of investment, and reached $ 10.43 billion and $ 10.55 billion; As the global semiconductor equipment spending considerable amount of respect as last year, remained at $ 36.29 billion and down, estimated 2014 rose to $ 43.98 billion.Etron chairman and Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association Lu Chao said that Taiwan's semiconductor industry to consolidate global leadership, equipment and materials are continuing to overweight the amount of investment.Etron Technology Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association Chairman-cum (TSIA) president Lu Chao said that despite the global semiconductor output over the past three years about $ 300 billion annually, but the growth rate is still limited, reflecting the large drop in price of semiconductor products current status of , while Taiwan's IC design, wafer manufacturing and packaging industry through the development of new technologies, breakthroughs in semiconductor industry growth has gradually slowed down adversity to become a pivotal global semiconductor technology center.According to the Semiconductor Industry Association SEMI latest research report estimates that in 2013 the global semiconductor equipment spending to $ 36.29 billion total, Taiwan's semiconductor industry ranks highest with $ 10.43 billion, while the U.S. accounted for $ 8.04 billion, ranking second and third compared to South Korea $ 669 million. For 2013 the total expenditure of semiconductor material compared $ 47,540,000,000, compared to $ 10.55 billion in Taiwan, representing growth of 3%, followed by China, accounting for $ 5.62 billion, a growth of 11%.Terry Tsao, president of SEMI Taiwan, said that with the continuing evolution of advanced semiconductor processes, equipment and materials in the industry's role has become increasingly heavy and, and became Taiwan's market opportunities in each industry to grasp the key weapon, and then push up investment in related industries amount expanding. Taiwan's semiconductor industry in R & D has always been non-stop, the Department of the amount of equipment and materials both exceeded ten billion U.S. dollars investment in the key, but also the layout of the 2014 Taiwan businesses 3DIC 1x nm and an important cornerstone of market opportunities.
