2014 Foundry Ranking: Globalfoundries Lost Momentum

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Press release: Worldwide Semiconductor Foundry Market Grew 16.1 Percent in 2014, According to Final Results by Gartner. Gartner, Apr 13, 2015.
www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3027717

My comment:
(a) To me, it is surprising that Globalfoundries is not growing, but losing revenue when compared with a year earlier (2013). To add insult to the injury, Globalfoundries is now behind UMC.
(b) SMIC also lost revenue in 2014.
(c)
(i) History. TowerJazz, undated
www.towerjazz.com/history.html
("1993 Tower Semiconductor was founded with the acquisition of National Semiconductor’s" facility at Migdal HaEmek, Israel; 1994 shares traded on NASDAQ; "2009 Tower Semiconductor and Jazz Semiconductor [located at Newport Beach, California] merged;"  "2014 TowerJazz announced the successful transaction with Panasonic Corporation to form TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor Co (TPSCo)" where TowerJazz has a 51% stake)

It turns out that Panasonic has an arm called Panasoic Semiconductor Solutions Co, Ltd.
www.semicon.panasonic.co.jp/en/
(ii) Click the "Technology" tab in the top horizontal bar of the home page. The new Web page shows TowerJazz's best achievement is 130nm, and TPSCo's, 45nm.
www.towerjazz.com/technology.html