Press release: Worldwide Semiconductor Foundry Market Grew 16.2 Percent in 2012, According to Final Results by Gartner. Gartner, Apr 24, 2013
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2447915
Quote:
"'2012 was the first year that the semiconductor revenue for mobile devices surpassed that of PCs and notebooks,' said Samuel Wang, research vice president at Gartner.
"some foundries [including SMIC, whose 2012/2011 revenue growth was 29.0%] reporting near-record-high shipments of wafers of 65 nm to 0.18 micron serving power management integrated circuits (PMICs), high voltage, embedded flash, complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS).
Note:
(a) Fact Sheet. TowerJazz, undated
http://www.jazzsemi.com/fact-sheet.html
(CMOS (acronym of Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor); based in Israel)
(b) MagnaChip (based in S Korea)
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