TAIPEI, Taiwan - According to the TSIA survey that Q4 2015 Taiwan IC revenue as a whole (including design, manufacturing, packaging and testing) totaled NT$563.2 billion(US$17.7B), down 1.9% on-quarter and 4.6% decrease on-year.
In the individual areas, US$5.0B in design (up 2.9% on-quarter and 6.8% growth on-year), US$9.2B in manufacturing (down 4.3% on-quarter and 10.6% drop on-year, US$7.6B in foundry (3.7% decrease on-quarter and down 9.3% on year), and US$1.6B in memory (6.9% decrease on-quarter and down 16.6% on-year), US$2.4B in packaging (2.5% drop on-quarter and down 2.9% on-year), and US$1.0B in testing(1.8% decline on-quarter and down 0.3% on-year).
In addition, Taiwan IC revenue in 2015 reached US$71.0B, 2.8% increase from 2014, with US$18.6B in design (up 2.8%), US$38.6B in manufacturing (4.9% growth), foundry US$31.6B (up 10.4%) , DRAM US$6.9B (down 14.8%), US$9.7B in packaging (1.9% decline), and US$4.1B in testing (down 4.7%).
