IC Knowledge - Utilization

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	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	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%	93.0%	80.9%	89.9%
2007-Q4	80.7%	86.4%	82.7%	80.7%	88.4%	91.5%	94.9%	95.4%	81.1%	90.4%

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%	-

[1] SiCAS

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