[TrendForce: Urgent orders from the supply chain boosted foundry utilization in the second quarter, and the output value of the world’s top ten foundries increased by 9.6% quarterly] Golden Ten Data reported on September 2, according to TrendForce, a global market research organization The survey shows that in the second quarter, with the arrival of China's mid-2018 consumption season and the return of consumer terminal inventories to healthy levels, customers have successively started stocking up on consumer parts or replenishing inventories, pushing wafer foundries to receive urgent orders and increase production capacity utilization. The rate increased significantly, a significant improvement compared with the previous quarter. At the same time, demand related to AI servers continued to strengthen, pushing the output value of the world's top ten foundries to increase by 9.6% quarter-on-quarter to US$32 billion in the second quarter. Judging from the rankings, the top five wafer foundries remained unchanged in the second quarter, followed by TSMC, Samsung, SMIC, UMC and GlobalFoundries. (Reprinted from: Jinshi Data)