subject: Top 5 Worldwide Semi-conductors Companies [print this page] Top 5 Worldwide Semi-conductors Companies
According the Gartner's gather, Intel, Electronics, Toshiba, Texas Instruments and Renesas Electronics (following the merger of NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology in April) are the top 5 semi-conductors makers.
The first is Intel. Its revenue in 2009 is 33,253 while 41,430 in 2010, the growth is 24.6%.
The second is Samsung. Gartner said it enjoyed a strong growth year due to DRAM and NAND flash markets with memory accounting for more than 80 percent of the company's sales. The revenue in 2009 is 17,686 and 28,256 in 2010, it increase 59.8%.
The third is Toshiba, which also grew its NAND flash memory business for mobile devices, along with its discrete, ASIC and ASSP device businesses while Texas Instruments(the fourth) grew its overall semiconductor revenue by 35.2 percent(9,142 in 2009, 12,356 in 2010), and its analog revenue by more than 41 percent.
The fifth is Renesas Electronics and its revenue in 2009 is 4,542 while 10,360 in 2010 (growth 128.3%).
Similar to IDC's forecast, the Stamford, Conn.-based market research firm pegs worldwide revenue for semiconductors at $300.3 billion in 2010, up 31.5 percent from 2009. Gartner expects the market to slow in 2011, growing only 4.6 percent to reach $314 billion.
Gartner analysts said a chip correction started in the third quarter of 2010 and it's expected to extend into four quarters. "In 2010, the semi-conductors marketplace was driven by pent-up demand as system makers scrambled against depleted inventories to obtain parts," said Stephan Ohr, semi-conductors research director at Gartner
In the semi-conductors(or IC components) industry, hope these companies would be more value in the coming year, but there is no doubt that this industry would be get more and more develop in 2011.
