from Samsung. Additionally, Samsung is investigating the disappearance of funds that the foundry unit had supposedly set aside to improve chip production yields.Trend Force notes that while Samsung Foundry is showing strong revenue growth, the bottom line has not been able to stay in gear as"the slower ramp-up of advanced process capacity continues to erode overall profitability."
After the well-known pair of TSMC and Samsung, Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corporation was next as its Q4 revenue comprised 7% of the industry's revenue for the three months. For the quarter, it garnered $2.12 billion in gross, up 5.8% from its third-quarter revenue. In fourth place, GlobalFoundries kept the 6.1% share of global foundry revenue that it earned during Q3. At number five was China's largest foundry, SMIC, with a market share of 5.2% and Q4 revenue of $1.58 billion.