Market: the wave of factory building in Mainland China provides a huge market space for semiconductor equipment industry

• According to the global Wafer Fab Forecast report released by SEMI, 62 new wafer processing lines are expected to be built globally in the four years from 2017 to 2020. Among them, 26 new fabs will be built in mainland China, making it the most active region in the world in terms of new wafer fab construction. The total investment is expected to account for 42% of new wafer fab construction globally, which is the highest in the world.

• At present, Mainland China has become the most active region for new fabs in the world. Memory projects represented by Yangtze River Storage/Hefei Changxin and OEM plants represented by SMIC/Hually are in the stage of accelerating production expansion, which is expected to bring a large amount of equipment investment demand.

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