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Number of front-end semiconductor manufacturing facilities forecast to begin operating worldwide 2017-2020: 62
Number forecast to begin operations in China: 26 (c. 42%)
Number forecast to begin operations in “the Americas”: 10 (c. 16%)
(Source: “China to join top-3 semiconductor equipment spenders for first time, says SEMI,” by Jessie Shen, Digitimes, December 14, 2016, http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20161214PR200.html)