Rohm leads in the percentage increase of capital expenditures
Rohm Electronics leads the six semiconductor companies in
increasing their capital expenditure or capex at 78% for the year 2012. These
were followed by UMC at 26%, SK Hynix at 16%, TSMC at 13%, Samsung at 11% and
Intel at 4%.
Samsung leads actual amount of capital expenditures
While Rohm leads the companies that increase capital
expenditures, Samsung with $13bn is on the top spot of five companies that
account for 64% of capital expenditures. On the second spot is Intel at
$11.2bn, followed by TSMC at $8.3bn, Hynix at $3.7bn and GlobalFoundries on the
5th spot at $3.1bn. These 64% capex are close to $40bn of the
$61.4bn 2012 semiconductor capex.
More companies are adopting fables model
Electronics Weekly added that these figures revealed that fewer
suppliers on their own will be able to spend large sum of money necessary to
build and provide equipment for a new fab. And will engage on fab-lite or fabless
business model which means relying on other foundries to manufacture their
device.
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