Foundry и semiconductor gen.

[w2k]

Всегда путался в этих терминах: Foundry и semiconductor. А тут еще необходимо перевести статью Foundry business to outpace semiconductor industry from 2012 - http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aECO&ID=201210040007

Помогите разобраться, пожалуйста. Что здесь? Литеный бизнес опередит полупроводниковый? Что такое литейный?

Заранее благодарен!

[GeorgyRyabov]

Foundry - A company that operates a semiconductor fabrication plant for fabricating the designs of other companies

[GeorgyRyabov]

http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/foundry

foundry
A semiconductor manufacturer that makes chips for third parties. It may be a large chip maker that sells its excess manufacturing capacity or one that makes chips exclusively for other companies. No less than two billion dollars is needed to construct a twenty-first century, high-production semiconductor manufacturing plant. See fabless and IDM.