Gartner: 2011 Top 10 Semiconductor Manufacturers Revenue Rank

According to preliminary statistics from international research and consulting firm Gartner, global semiconductor revenue in 2011 increased slightly from 0.9% to US$302 billion. Although the semiconductor industry had a strong performance at the beginning of this year, with increasing concerns about the overall economy, orders for equipment and semiconductors decreased in 2011.

Stephan Ohr, director of research at Gartner Semiconductor, said: "The semiconductor industry had a good performance early this year. The big reason was the continuation of the 2010 boom. However, as the overall economic uncertainty gradually increased in the middle of the year, consumers were delayed in buying. The government has suspended infrastructure expansion plans to avoid assuming more debt. Equipment inventory has increased over time, gradually affecting the entire semiconductor industry."

According to Gartner's estimates, Intel will continue to be the No. 1 manufacturer for 20 consecutive years, reaching its highest peak in the year with a market share of 16.9% in 2011; the last time in 1998 was Intel's 16.3. % won the second highest market share in history. The reason that Intel's share of the market in the first half of the year jumped dramatically was due to the foreseeable pull-up of the PC market in the second half of the year. In addition, its Westmere and Nahelem servers also have dazzling performance.

Gartner added that the acquisition of Infineon's wireless business unit also contributed to Intel's 2011 revenue. Intel completed the acquisition of Infineon’s wireless business unit for $1.4 billion in the first quarter of 2011.

In 2011, the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer is estimated to be Samsung. Although the DRAM industry’s economy has deteriorated, the company’s revenue has continued to increase, slightly higher than the market average. Gartner said that Samsung’s NAND flash memory business grew steadily, roughly in line with the overall upward trend of the NAND market.

According to Samsung's product business contribution, Samsung's biggest revenue growth momentum came from non-memory businesses, especially from wireless application processor revenue for special applications. In addition, according to Samsung’s customer revenue contribution, Apple’s revenue contribution is the largest, and Samsung is currently the supplier of Apple’s iPhone4s and iPad 2 tablet device A5 processor.

Texas Instruments (TI), the world's third-largest semiconductor manufacturer to estimate in 2011, pointed out that after a series of acquisitions in 2010, the company had the strongest process capability in the analog semiconductor industry; however, the overall economic environment Uncertainty also impacted the revenue of all analog semiconductor suppliers because of the decrease in their orders in the third quarter and fourth quarter of 2011.

However, Gartner also stated that the power management device is an indispensable component for constructing new data centers and deploying personal computers. Compared with operational amplifiers and data converters, the decline in revenue of power management devices is more moderate.

Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, and Nvidia are processor manufacturers that belong to the same camp and outperform other industry competitors. Gartner said that despite the decline in the PC manufacturing growth trend, Intel's server business continues to grow; Qualcomm continues to focus its development on 4G and LTE mobile services. The Tegra platform business of Nvidia-supported tablet device manufacturers is catching up with this emerging product trend.

Affected by both the decline in DRAM prices and market share, among the top 25 semiconductor suppliers in the world, memory makers such as Hynix, Micron, and Elpida have reported revenues. Fell down. However, Gartner said that Samsung’s revenue rose 3.7%, in which the revenue contribution from the mobile phone ASIC business and the memory business’s revenue contribution are actually comparable. In addition, thanks to the market demand for flash memory, SanDisk’s revenue grew by 33.5%.