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Utilization
The following utilization rates are provided to our Cost Model user for modeling purposes. Please note the overall and foundry data has now been split into two tables.
Period Worldwide [1] >=0.7µm <0.7µm >=0.4µm <0.4µm >=0.3µm <0.3µm >=0.2µm <0.2µm >=0.16µm <0.16µm >=0.12µm <0.12µm >=0.08µm <0.08µm >=0.06µm <0.06µm Bipolar Total 1998-Q4 79.1% 75.0% 90.2% - - - - - 74.1% 81.7% 1999-Q1 82.9% 78.7% 91.1% 93.0% - - - - - 74.4% 84.5% 1999-Q2 88.4% 84.5% 94.1% 93.6% - - - - - 83.2% 89.1% 1999-Q3 91.5% 87.7% 91.4% 95.5% - - - - - 86.1% 90.9% 1999-Q4 91.8% 95.1% 93.7% 97.5% - - - - - 89.2% 93.9% 2000-Q1 93.3% 95.6% 94.0% 97.3% - - - - - 89.3% 94.6% 2000-Q2 94.0% 97.0% 95.0% 96.2% - - - - - 90.7% 95.0% 2000-Q3 95.3% 97.9% 98.4% 97.2% - - - - - 90.0% 96.4% 2000-Q4 94.0% 92.8% 95.2% 92.4% - - - - 87.4% 92.8% 2001-Q1 80.7% 87.6% 85.7% 87.1% 80.4% - - - - 80.1% 83.8% 2001-Q2 73.3% 67.4% 65.8% 74.1% 83.2% - - - - 67.7% 73.1% 2001-Q3 66.8% 57.9% 52.5% 56.3% 79.0% - - - - 65.6% 64.2% 2001-Q4 66.6% 59.2% 55.8% 55.3% 85.5% - - - - 63.7% 65.9% 2002-Q1 78.2% 70.2% 66% 64.8% 90.4% - - - - 74.5% 77.3% 2002-Q2 88.7% 80.6% 82.2% 78.3% 93.4% - - - - 82.8% 87.0% 2002-Q3 89.3% 84.7% 76.5% 78.1% 93% - - - - 83.7% 86.3% 2002-Q4 83.9% 76.1% 73.1% 73.2% 89.2% - - - - 76.6% 81.5% 2003-Q1 84.0% 78.2% 77.5% 75.7% 86.8% 91.9% - - - 74.4% 82.8% 2003-Q2 87.7% 83.6% 78.9% 82.7% 84.5% 94.7% - - - 81.1% 85.9% 2003-Q3 85.0% 85.1% 80.4% 89.6% 90.1% 96.8% - - - 83.2% 88.3% 2003-Q4 87.0% 89.6% 89.0% 87.8% 95.5% 98.4% - - - 86.1% 91.9% 2004-Q1 87.9% 92.0% 93.6% 91.1% 94.9% 99.0% - - - 85.4% 93.4% 2004-Q2 91.8% 95.9% 95.3% 95.4% 93.3% 98.7% - - - 92.2% 95.4% 2004-Q3 89.9% 94.4% 93.8% 90.9% 90.0% 95.5% - - - 87.7% 92.7% 2004-Q4 77.1% 86.5% 83.4% 80.0% 84.3% 93.2% - - - 79.5% 86.0% 2005-Q1 76.4% 82.3% 81.2% 73.1% 81.5% 92.8% - - - 74.7% 84.8% 2005-Q2 82.8% 90.1% 84.7% 79.0% 88.6% 93.7% - - - 82.5% 89.1% 2005-Q3 84.3% 88.2% 85.0% 85.3% 87.2% 95.9% - - - 80.5% 90.1% 2005-Q4 87.0% 88.4% 85.6% 85.2% 91.4% 97.6% - - - 78.9% 91.8% 2006-Q1 85.4% 81.4% 80.5% 91.1% 84.0% 97.7% - - - 77.4% 89.5% 2006-Q2 86.0% 89.2% 82.4% 90.5% 86.6% 97.3% - - - 79.2% 91.2% 2006-Q3 84.0% 86.5% 83.4% 88.4% 81.0% 90.6% - - - 77.4% 88.5% 2006-Q4 81.6% 84.5% 81.4% 86.0% 74.3% 87.9% - - - 71.2% 86.4% 2007-Q1 78.0% 83.1% 79.3% 83.0% 78.8% 88.8% - - - 78.3% 87.1% 2007-Q2 82.4% 86.8% 84.9% 83.2% 88.3% 90.4% - - - 78.5% 89.3% 2007-Q3 82.9% 87.9% 86.1% 82.4% 85.8% 90.1% 94.9% - - 80.9% 89.9% 2007-Q4 80.7% 86.4% 82.7% 80.7% 88.4% 91.5% 94.9% - - 81.1% 90.4% 2008-Q1 77.5% 82.7% 86.7% 83.1% 83.8% 89.6% 95.0% - - 82.2% 90.5% 2008-Q2 76.3% 78.9% 80.5% 85.4% 83.7% 91.3% 91.7% - - 82.5% 89.3% 2008-Q3 74.5% 74.5% 75.6% 77.8% 82.6% 85.6% 88.1% - - 78.3% 87.1% 2008-Q4 58.0% 51.0% 50.2% 51.7% 46.8% 60.0% 65.0% - - 65.3% 68.3% 2009-Q1 45.6% 36.0% 37.2% 47.8% 39.1% 44.6% 68.4% - - 44.2% 56.8% 2009-Q2 60.2% 57.7% 58.8% 71.0% 65.0% 74.1% 77.9% - - 60.3% 78.1% 2009-Q3 72.4% 68.8% 73.6% 81.6% 82.7% 86.4% 84.6% 95.3% 93.8% 80.6% 87.0% 2009-Q4 80.2% 76.8% 76.8% 81.5% 78.2% 92.1% 87.0% 91.4% 96.3% 89.5% 89.2%

Period	Foundry
	TSMC [2]	UMC [2]	Chartered [2]	SMIC [2]	Total [1]
	TSMC [2]	UMC [2]	Chartered [2]	SMIC [2]	Total [1]
1991-Q1	100%	-	-	-	-
1991-Q2	100%	-	-	-	-
1991-Q3	76%	-	-	-	-
1991-Q4	77%	-	-	-	-
1992-Q1	73%	-	-	-	-
1992-Q2	101%	-	-	-	-
1992-Q3	92%	-	-	-	-
1992-Q4	100%	-	-	-	-
1993-Q1	105%	-	-	-	-
1993-Q2	104%	-	-	-	-
1993-Q3	107%	-	-	-	-
1993-Q4	107%	-	-	-	-
1994-Q1	107%	-	-	-	-
1994-Q2	105%	-	-	-	-
1994-Q3	99%	-	-	-	-
1994-Q4	102%	-	-	-	-
1995-Q1	105%	-	-	-	-
1995-Q2	103%	-	-	-	-
1995-Q3	103%	-	-	-	-
1995-Q4	102%	-	-	-	-
1996-Q1	108%	-	-	-	-
1996-Q2	103%	-	-	-	-
1996-Q3	90%	-	-	-	-
1996-Q4	85%	-	-	-	-
1997-Q1	97%	-	-	-	-
1997-Q2	99%	-	-	-	-
1997-Q3	103%	-	-	-	-
1997-Q4	108%	-	-	-	-
1998-Q1	102%	-	-	-	-
1998-Q2	75%	-	-	-	-
1998-Q3	58%	-	-	-	-
1998-Q4	67%	-	-	-	-
1999-Q1	87%	-	92.0%	-	-
1999-Q2	102%	-	103%	-	-
1999-Q3	92%	-	103%	-	-
1999-Q4	104%	-	104%	-	-
2000-Q1	108%	-	104%	-	-
2000-Q2	101%	-	107%	-	-
2000-Q3	107%	-	103.0%	-	-
2000-Q4	105%	-	94.0%	-	-
2001-Q1	70.0%	70.0%	61.0%	-	-
2001-Q2	44.0%	45.0%	31.0%	-	-
2001-Q3	41.0%	36.0%	22.0%	-	-
2001-Q4	50.0%	48.0%	25.0%	-	-
2002-Q1	67.0%	50.0%	28.0%	-	63.0%
2002-Q2	85.0%	72.0%	42.0%	-	79.9%
2002-Q3	79.0%	68.0%	39.0%	-	71.3%
2002-Q4	61.0%	64.0%	39.0%	-	61.6%
2003-Q1	67.0%	67.0%	45.0%	-	69.1%
2003-Q2	88.0%	85.0%	55.0%	-	87.0%
2003-Q3	98.0%	84.0%	59.0%	-	86.6%
2003-Q4	101%	96.0%	71.0%	-	98.6%
2004-Q1	105%	100%	81.0%	-	98.7%
2004-Q2	106%	99.0%	90.0%	-	99.4%
2004-Q3	103%	94.0%	89.0%	-	97.7%
2004-Q4	88.0%	72.0%	61.0%	95.0%	81.5%
2005-Q1	78.0%	63.0%	59.0%	85.0%	75.2%
2005-Q2	85.0%	65.0%	65.0%	87.0%	83.0%
2005-Q3	96.0%	78.0%	74.0%	92.0%	91.7%
2005-Q4	104%	86.0%	79.0%	93.0%	94.9%
2006-Q1	105%	79.0%	82.0%	95.0%	91.7%
2006-Q2	110%	80.0%	82.0%	93.5%	94.2%
2006-Q3	98.8%	82.0%	74.0%	84.3%	91.5%
2006-Q4	89.9%	76.0%	70.0%	86.6%	80.9%
2007-Q1	82.9%	74.0%	70.0%	86.2%	78.6%
2007-Q2	94.3%	76.0%	79.0%	-	92.7%
2007-Q3	103%	93.0%	85.0%	94.1%	94.4%
2007-Q4	104%	86.0%	81.0%	94.4%	93.8%
2008-Q1	101%	73.0%	86.0%	92.1%	93.7%
2008-Q2	101%	85.0%	88.0%	92.2%	92.8%
2008-Q3	99.8%	79.0%	85.0%	90.5%	86.4%
2008-Q4	61.8%	48.0%	59.0%	67.7%	52.8%
2009-Q1	36.0%	30.0%	38.0%	34.9%	50.1%
2009-Q2	79.4%	79.0%	60.0%	75.4%	83.1%
2009-Q3	100.1%	88.3%	75.0%	87.3%	91.9%
2009-Q4	96.0%	86%	NA	TBD	TBD

[1] SiCAS

[2] Company reports

Period	Worldwide [1]
	>=0.7µm	<0.7µm >=0.4µm	<0.4µm >=0.3µm	<0.3µm >=0.2µm	<0.2µm >=0.16µm	<0.16µm >=0.12µm	<0.12µm >=0.08µm	<0.08µm >=0.06µm	<0.06µm	Bipolar	Total
	>=0.7µm	<0.7µm >=0.4µm	<0.4µm >=0.3µm	<0.3µm >=0.2µm	<0.2µm >=0.16µm	<0.16µm >=0.12µm	<0.12µm >=0.08µm	<0.08µm >=0.06µm	<0.06µm	Bipolar	Total
1998-Q4	79.1%	75.0%	90.2%		-	-	-	-	-	74.1%	81.7%
1999-Q1	82.9%	78.7%	91.1%	93.0%	-	-	-	-	-	74.4%	84.5%
1999-Q2	88.4%	84.5%	94.1%	93.6%	-	-	-	-	-	83.2%	89.1%
1999-Q3	91.5%	87.7%	91.4%	95.5%	-	-	-	-	-	86.1%	90.9%
1999-Q4	91.8%	95.1%	93.7%	97.5%	-	-	-	-	-	89.2%	93.9%
2000-Q1	93.3%	95.6%	94.0%	97.3%	-	-	-	-	-	89.3%	94.6%
2000-Q2	94.0%	97.0%	95.0%	96.2%	-	-	-	-	-	90.7%	95.0%
2000-Q3	95.3%	97.9%	98.4%	97.2%	-	-	-	-	-	90.0%	96.4%
2000-Q4	94.0%	92.8%	95.2%	92.4%		-	-	-	-	87.4%	92.8%
2001-Q1	80.7%	87.6%	85.7%	87.1%	80.4%	-	-	-	-	80.1%	83.8%
2001-Q2	73.3%	67.4%	65.8%	74.1%	83.2%	-	-	-	-	67.7%	73.1%
2001-Q3	66.8%	57.9%	52.5%	56.3%	79.0%	-	-	-	-	65.6%	64.2%
2001-Q4	66.6%	59.2%	55.8%	55.3%	85.5%	-	-	-	-	63.7%	65.9%
2002-Q1	78.2%	70.2%	66%	64.8%	90.4%	-	-	-	-	74.5%	77.3%
2002-Q2	88.7%	80.6%	82.2%	78.3%	93.4%	-	-	-	-	82.8%	87.0%
2002-Q3	89.3%	84.7%	76.5%	78.1%	93%	-	-	-	-	83.7%	86.3%
2002-Q4	83.9%	76.1%	73.1%	73.2%	89.2%	-	-	-	-	76.6%	81.5%
2003-Q1	84.0%	78.2%	77.5%	75.7%	86.8%	91.9%	-	-	-	74.4%	82.8%
2003-Q2	87.7%	83.6%	78.9%	82.7%	84.5%	94.7%	-	-	-	81.1%	85.9%
2003-Q3	85.0%	85.1%	80.4%	89.6%	90.1%	96.8%	-	-	-	83.2%	88.3%
2003-Q4	87.0%	89.6%	89.0%	87.8%	95.5%	98.4%	-	-	-	86.1%	91.9%
2004-Q1	87.9%	92.0%	93.6%	91.1%	94.9%	99.0%	-	-	-	85.4%	93.4%
2004-Q2	91.8%	95.9%	95.3%	95.4%	93.3%	98.7%	-	-	-	92.2%	95.4%
2004-Q3	89.9%	94.4%	93.8%	90.9%	90.0%	95.5%	-	-	-	87.7%	92.7%
2004-Q4	77.1%	86.5%	83.4%	80.0%	84.3%	93.2%	-	-	-	79.5%	86.0%
2005-Q1	76.4%	82.3%	81.2%	73.1%	81.5%	92.8%	-	-	-	74.7%	84.8%
2005-Q2	82.8%	90.1%	84.7%	79.0%	88.6%	93.7%	-	-	-	82.5%	89.1%
2005-Q3	84.3%	88.2%	85.0%	85.3%	87.2%	95.9%	-	-	-	80.5%	90.1%
2005-Q4	87.0%	88.4%	85.6%	85.2%	91.4%	97.6%	-	-	-	78.9%	91.8%
2006-Q1	85.4%	81.4%	80.5%	91.1%	84.0%	97.7%	-	-	-	77.4%	89.5%
2006-Q2	86.0%	89.2%	82.4%	90.5%	86.6%	97.3%	-	-	-	79.2%	91.2%
2006-Q3	84.0%	86.5%	83.4%	88.4%	81.0%	90.6%	-	-	-	77.4%	88.5%
2006-Q4	81.6%	84.5%	81.4%	86.0%	74.3%	87.9%	-	-	-	71.2%	86.4%
2007-Q1	78.0%	83.1%	79.3%	83.0%	78.8%	88.8%	-	-	-	78.3%	87.1%
2007-Q2	82.4%	86.8%	84.9%	83.2%	88.3%	90.4%	-	-	-	78.5%	89.3%
2007-Q3	82.9%	87.9%	86.1%	82.4%	85.8%	90.1%	94.9%	-	-	80.9%	89.9%
2007-Q4	80.7%	86.4%	82.7%	80.7%	88.4%	91.5%	94.9%	-	-	81.1%	90.4%
2008-Q1	77.5%	82.7%	86.7%	83.1%	83.8%	89.6%	95.0%	-	-	82.2%	90.5%
2008-Q2	76.3%	78.9%	80.5%	85.4%	83.7%	91.3%	91.7%	-	-	82.5%	89.3%
2008-Q3	74.5%	74.5%	75.6%	77.8%	82.6%	85.6%	88.1%	-	-	78.3%	87.1%
2008-Q4	58.0%	51.0%	50.2%	51.7%	46.8%	60.0%	65.0%	-	-	65.3%	68.3%
2009-Q1	45.6%	36.0%	37.2%	47.8%	39.1%	44.6%	68.4%	-	-	44.2%	56.8%
2009-Q2	60.2%	57.7%	58.8%	71.0%	65.0%	74.1%	77.9%	-	-	60.3%	78.1%
2009-Q3	72.4%	68.8%	73.6%	81.6%	82.7%	86.4%	84.6%	95.3%	93.8%	80.6%	87.0%
2009-Q4	80.2%	76.8%	76.8%	81.5%	78.2%	92.1%	87.0%	91.4%	96.3%	89.5%	89.2%