Global Semiconductor Industry Hit $261 Billion in 2006 - Gartner
Worldwide
semiconductor revenue totaled $261.4 billion in 2006, an 11.3% increase
from 2005, according
to preliminary results from Gartner. Intel
remained the No. 1 vendor in 2006, even as its revenue declined 9.5%. This
is the15th year that Intel has been the No. 1 semiconductor vendor.
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Top 10 Worldwide Semiconductor Vendors by Revenue Estimates (Millions of U.S. Dollars) |
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2006 |
2005 |
Company |
2006 Revenue |
2006 Market Share (%) |
2005-2006 |
|
1 |
1 |
Intel |
31,289 |
12.0 |
-9.5 |
|
2 |
2 |
Samsung Electronics |
20,630 |
7.9 |
12.4 |
|
3 |
3 |
Texas Instruments |
11,884 |
4.5 |
17.4 |
|
4 |
7 |
Infineon Technologies** |
10,585 |
4.0 |
29.0 |
|
5 |
5 |
STMicroelectronics |
9,872 |
3.8 |
11.9 |
|
5 |
4 |
Toshiba |
9,872 |
3.8 |
9.9 |
|
7 |
6 |
Renesas Technology |
7,907 |
3.0 |
-4.6 |
|
8 |
9 |
Hynix Semiconductor |
7,710 |
2.9 |
34.7 |
|
9 |
14 |
Advanced Micro Devices |
7,494 |
2.9 |
90.4 |
|
10 |
11 |
Freescale Semiconductor |
6,052 |
2.3 |
8.1 |
|
|
|
Top 10* |
123,295 |
47.2 |
7.8 |
|
|
|
Others |
138,140 |
52.8 |
14.7 |
|
|
|
Total Market |
261,435 |
100.0 |
11.3 |
| Source: Gartner Dataquest (December 2006) | |||||
"Strong growth in DRAM picked up in 2006 where NAND flash left off the year before," said Jeremey Donovan, research director at Gartner. "Outside of DRAM, wireless semiconductor sales once again drove strong performance in the industry."
Samsung Electronics continued to gain share, as it accounted for 7.9% of the market. Samsung now dominates most areas of the memory market, holding the No. 1 position in DRAM, SRAM and the NAND flash markets.
Advanced Micro Devices moved into the top 10 in 2006. Combining AMD’s and ATI’s results for 2005, the combined entity grew semiconductor revenue by 32.1%.
