Industry Structure
The global semiconductor industry is dominated by USA, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and European Union. The U.S. industry faces challenges to development by some forms of government regulation. The U.S. government regulates exports and certain uses of some types of semiconductors due to their potential dual use in military applications.
Based on KPMG report it was a $304 billion market in 2010.
| Rank 2011 |
Rank 2010 |
Rank 2009 |
Company | Country of origin | Revenue (million $ USD) |
2010/2009 changes | Market share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Intel Corporation | USA | 40 020 | +24.3% | 13.2% |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Samsung Electronics | South Korea | 28 137 | +60.8% | 9.3% |
| 3 | 4 | 4 | Texas Instruments | USA | 12 966 | +34.1% | 4.3% |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | Toshiba Semiconductors | Japan | 13 081 | +26.8% | 4.3% |
| 5 | 5 | 9 | Renesas Electronics | Japan | 11 840 | +129.8% | 3.9% |
| 6 | 9 | 6 | Qualcomm | USA | 7 200 | +12.3% | 2.4% |
| 7 | 7 | 5 | STMicroelectronics | FranceItaly | 10 290 | +20.9% | 3.4% |
| 8 | 6 | 7 | Hynix | South Korea | 10 577 | +69.3% | 3.5% |
| 9 | 8 | 13 | Micron Technology | USA | 8 853 | +106.2% | 2.9% |
| 10 | 10 | 14 | Broadcom | USA | 7 153 | +7.0% | 2.3% |
Source : iSuppli Corporation supplied rankings for 2010 (Semiconductor foundries are excluded)
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