The world’s top-15 semiconductor corporations noticed their mixed gross sales surge 21% from a 12 months earlier within the first quarter of 2021, 3pp higher than the 18% progress the overall worldwide semiconductor trade posted throughout the identical interval, in keeping with IC Insights.
Excluding Intel, the group would have proven a 29% on-year bounce in gross sales, mentioned IC Insights.
Fourteen of the top-15 corporations had semiconductor gross sales of no less than US$three billion within the first quarter of 2021, IC Insights famous.
There had been two new entrants into the top-15 rating – MediaTek and AMD, IC Insights mentioned. MediaTek and AMD changed HiSilicon and Sony within the top-15 itemizing.
HiSilicon, which was ranked 12th within the top-15 gross sales rating within the first quarter of 2020, is the semiconductor design division of China-based telecommunications big Huawei with over 90% of the corporate’s gross sales going to its dad or mum firm. However, US sanctions on Huawei/HiSilicon terminated the power of HiSilicon to buy ICs from its major foundry TSMC starting within the fourth quarter of 2020, IC Insights indicated.
AMD’s gross sales climbed 93% on 12 months within the first quarter of 2021, the best progress charge of any of the top-15 corporations, to maneuver up seven spots within the rating and into 11th place, IC Insights mentioned. MediaTek additionally posted an unimaginable year-over-year gross sales improve of 90% within the first quarter of 2021, and jumped up six positions into 10th place.
Thirteen of the top-15 semiconductor corporations registered a double-digit year-over-year gross sales improve within the first quarter of 2021, whereas just one firm – Intel – displayed a decline, IC Insights mentioned.
The top-15 worldwide semiconductor (IC and OSD – optoelectronic, sensor and discrete) gross sales rating for the primary quarter of 2021 consists of eight suppliers headquartered within the US, two every in South Korea, Taiwan and Europe, and one in Japan. The rating consists of six fabless corporations (Qualcomm, Broadcom, Nvidia, MediaTek, AMD and Apple) and one pure-play foundry (TSMC). If pure-play foundry TSMC was excluded from the rating, Europe-based IDM NXP would have been ranked 15th within the first-quarter 2021 itemizing, IC Insights indicated.
