I’ve always been a little wary of Statista numbers. The SIA claim the US has 12% of global capacity rather than 42.3%. They could be exaggerating numbers for political reasons (ie subsidy) as well though.
The accompanying text is “Due to the ambitious chip manufacturing incentives offered by other countries’ governments and ongoing
consolidation in the industry, the share of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capacity in the U.S. fell by more than 10
percent over the past 8 years.”
This leads me to think that these figures represent "the share of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capacity broken down by region" ??? (In this context the Taiwanese 0.00% fig. is correct.)
My bad. :( Somebody should inform Statista!
The actual figures are:
U.S. Japan E.U. Korea Taiwan China
46% 9% 9% 21% 8% 7%
That's from pg. 3 of the same report.
Wow, China's such a threat, no wonder the U.S. has to sanction them up the wazoo. Interestingly the U.S. has troops stationed in Korea, Japan, the E.U., and a small presence in Taiwan (but sells them a boatload of arms.) So the U.S. controls or has troops in countries which control 93% of the global market share of semiconductors – and yet despite this dominance sees China as such a threat that it is trying to strangle its semiconductor industry in the cot.
