2011 Foundry Ranking, by Gartner

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Gartner Says Semiconductor Foundry Market Grew 5.1 Percent in 2011 to Reach $29.8 Billion. Gartner, Mar 30, 2012.
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1970115

Note:
(a) Notable are
(i) that UMC (No 2 in 2011) is separated from Globalfoundries (No 3) by a heartbeat (2011 foundry market shares 12.1 and 12%, respectively).
(ii) and that Sales of SMIC dropped 15% compared with thaty a year before.
(b) The press release says, "Samsung's foundry, with $470 million in revenue, ranked No. 9. However, Samsung Electronics had been very aggressively expanding its LSI business in 2011. Had the estimated $1 billion Apple wafer business been included in its foundry revenue, Samsung would rank as high as No. 4 in the foundry ranking."

(i) World's second-largest chipmaker after Intel, the semiconductor arm of the Samsung conglomerate is divided into four divisions: (A) memory, (B) flash & SSD, (C) system logic (acronym being LSI, which stands for system logic & imaging) and (D) foundry & ASIC.
http://www.samsung.com/us/busine ... onductor/index.html
(ii) Samsung has "wafer fabrication (front-end) production facilities in Giheung and Hwaseong near Seoul (Korea), and in Austin, Texas (United States)."
(iii) Press release: Samsung Austin Semiconductor Begins $3.6B Expansion for Advanced Logic Chips. Samsung, June 9, 2010
http://www.samsung.com/us/busine ... iew.do?news_id=1158
("The expanded fabrication plant, one of the largest in the United States, will produce advanced logic devices for Samsung's System LSI business")
(iv) Application-specific integrated circuit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App ... _integrated_circuit
(c) Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation (VIS), headquartered at Hsinchu and whose major shareholder is TSMC.
(d) Dongbu Hitek, part of Dongbu Group, is based at Seoul.