Recently, we get access to the foundry market share report of Samsung and TSMC for the year 2022, in which the Korean tech maker receives a 15.5 percent decline, whereas the Taiwanese market research firm got a hike of 52.1 percent.
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As per the report, the fourth quarter of 2021 had brought 18.3 percent rise in the Samsung foundry market, but it falls to 16.3 percent in the 1st quarter of this year and 16.5 percent in the 2nd quarter and below 16 percent in the 3rd quarter.
Further, the report also suggests that the fallen shares of the year 2022 have not affected the revenue of the Korean firms to that extent as the sales came in at US$5.584 billion, which is only 0.1 percent down from the previous quarter.
Additionally, the advanced expansion process of Samsung has also helped the company to widen the gap in the 3rd quarter of 2022. As the market share gap between Samsung Electronics and TSMC restrained to 33.8 percent in the 4th quarter of 2021.
On the other side, TSMC’s share has picked u a great hike from 52.1 percent in the 4th quarter of 2021 to 56.1 percent in the 3rd quarter of 2022. The shares of TSMC have extended by 2.7 percent from the previous quarter and rose from 11.1 percent from US$18.145 billion in the 2nd quarter to US$20.163 billion in the 3rd quarter.
TrendForce further said that several foundry companies were affected by a decrease in customer orders, but TSMC admired a big expansion because of the high demand for new iPhone. TSMC also constructing a new production plant in Arizona of the United States with an investment from US$12 billion to US$40 billion.
