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- Semiconductor industry may be affected by particular economic or market events, such as domestic and international competition pressures, rapid obsolescence of products, the economic performance of the customers of semiconductor companies and capital equipment expenditures. These companies rely on significant spending on research and development that may cause the value of securities of all companies within this sector of the market to deteriorate.
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Comments on Latest Rally of China Semiconductor
Global X China Semiconductor ETF
The recent rally in the Chinese semiconductor industry has been driven by three key factors. First, stronger than expected demand for domestic equipment suppliers driven by domestic logic foundry and memory CAPEX. Second, healthy inventory level in consumer electronics-related semiconductor facilitate restocking demand. Third, clear policy support to build domestic data center capacities.
China Wafer Fab Equipment (WFE) is expected to grow driven by logic foundry and memory CAPEX, domestic equipment suppliers are well positioned to benefit from this trend.
China semiconductor CAPEX is projected to grow in 2024 (MS 2024) driven by capacity expansion in logic foundries and memory suppliers. MS expects key IDM and foundry capacity will grow 14% in 2024 after 19% growth in 2023. Domestic equipment suppliers like Naura, AMEC, ACM Research will benefit from the strong CAPEX spending and equipment localization trend.
In 2024-25, China’s fabrication (fab) industry is expected to focus on expanding its production capacity in mature node foundries. Despite adequate overall supply, the majority of fabs are aiming to increase their capacity to support the localization of power semiconductors, display driver ICs, microcontrollers, and CMOS image sensors, as well as to prepare for the next market upswing.
China will continue to outgrow the global market in terms of wafer shipment
The significant investment in semiconductor capacity will translate to higher wafer shipment growth vs the global average. According to Gartner, it forecasts China’s annual wafer shipment to rise at a CAGR of 12% during 2023-27E, stronger than the global TAM GACR of 7%. As a result, China’s wafer market supply share is likely to reach 25% by 2027 compared to 21% in 2023 (Gartner 2023)