Accounts for 19% of Global Wafer Production
Samsung Electronics ranked first in terms of semiconductor wafer production capacity and market share, followed by TSMC, Micron Technology, SK Hynix, and Kioxia. The top five players held a combined market share of 57 percent.
The world’s top five semiconductor companies logged a combined production capacity of 12,217,000 sheets of 200 mm wafers per month at the end of 2021, according to Knometa Research, a market research company. The figure represented a 10 percent jump from the end of 2020. Their proportion ascended by 1 percentage point from 56 percent to 57 percent during the same period.
As of the end of 2021, Samsung Electronics had a monthly production capacity of 4.05 million sheets of wafer. Its production capacity grew by 20 percent compared to the 3364,000 sheets at the end of 2020. Accordingly, its market share also swelled from 17 percent at the end of 2020 to 19 percent at the end of 2021.
TSMC came in second with a production capacity of 2.80 million sheets of wafer per month. Its market share stood at 13 percent, the same as in 2020. As a pure foundry company, TSMC was the only foundry player among the top five.
Micron Technology of the United States came in third with a production capacity of 2.05 million sheets of wafer per month and a market share of 10 percent.
The three were followed by SK Hynix (1.98 million sheets per month and 9 percent) and Kioxia in Japan (1.33 million sheets per month and 6 percent). The shares of the two companies slid by one percentage point each compared to a year ago. This survey did not cover the production capacity of SK Hynix's fab in Dalian, China, which was previously owned by Intel.