What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | Environmental permitting authorities (EPA, EU IED registers), export-control and entity lists (BIS), fab site permits, patent offices | per site per permit; per company | public |
| employment & workforce | National labour statistics agencies, company annual reports, job-posting aggregators (LinkedIn, Indeed scrapes) | headcount per company/site annually; job postings per day | public |
| energy consumption | Fab operators, utility providers, CDP/ESG disclosures of major manufacturers | per site per month/annual in disclosures; sub-metered per tool internally | public |
| financial filings | Listed component makers and equipment suppliers (SEC EDGAR, JPX, TWSE monthly revenue disclosures), national business registers | quarterly and annual per company; monthly revenue for Taiwanese firms | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Occupational safety regulators (OSHA, national inspectorates), chemical incident reporting, product recall databases, insurers of fab… | per incident per site; per recall notice | public |
| waste & emissions | Manufacturers' sustainability reports, national pollutant release registries (E-PRTR, US TRI), PFC/greenhouse-gas inventories | per facility per year by substance | public |
| pricing | Distributors (Digi-Key, Mouser, Arrow, Avnet), price-aggregator platforms (Octopart, Findchips, Z2Data), memory/panel price trackers… | per part number per quantity break, updated daily/weekly; contract ASPs monthly | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Component distributors' stock APIs, brokers on open marketplaces, EMS purchasing departments, lead-time trackers (ECIA, Supplyframe, Lytica) | per part number per distributor, stock quantity and lead-time weeks, daily… | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | Fab site databases (SEMI World Fab Forecast, TechInsights), satellite-imagery analytics firms monitoring construction and parking | per fab site, coordinates plus capacity and technology node; imagery per revisit | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Customs authorities and trade-data vendors (Panjiva, ImportGenius, Descartes, Eurostat Comext), air-freight forwarders | per shipment bill of lading; monthly HS-code aggregates by country | purchasable |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Foundries and OSATs (fab utilisation rates), analyst firms (TrendForce, Yole, IC Insights) estimating capacity utilisation | per fab per quarter, % capacity utilised | purchasable |
| production output | Semiconductor and component fabs (TSMC, Infineon, Murata, Samsung), industry bodies SEMI and WSTS, national statistics offices (Eurostat… | per-fab wafer starts/moves per week internally; monthly aggregate by product… | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Component manufacturers' ERP, distributor point-of-sale (POS) reporting back to suppliers, ECIA aggregated sell-through statistics | per order line/per invoice internally; monthly aggregated book-to-bill and… | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Fabs and OSAT test houses (wafer sort / final test data, yield databases), reliability labs, component certification bodies (UL, VDE)… | per die/per unit test records internally; per part-number compliance… | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Fab operators and their equipment vendors (Applied Materials, ASML, Lam) via SECS/GEM and FDC systems; MES/APC platforms | per tool per process step, sub-second to per-wafer traces | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Fab maintenance/CMMS systems, equipment OEM service organisations with remote-monitoring contracts | per tool per event, MTBF/uptime per chamber | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.