Semiconductor sales leaders by year

This article lists the top 10~25 largest semiconductor companies by sales leaders since 1987.

• The article ranks two types of semiconductor companies mixing them in one list:
  1. Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDM) such as chip makers from Intel, Samsung, and STMicroelectronics that design, manufacture and sell their chips.
  2. Fabless manufacturers such as Qualcomm, NVIDIA and AMD that design and sell chips but outsource manufacturing to foundry companies.

• You can find also a list of foundry companies such as TSMC and UMC that manufacture chips designed and sold by their customers especially from fabless companies as described before.
• Finally there's information about semiconductor equipment sales leaders describing IC equipment supplier's revenue which support all the semiconductor companies.

Gartner Dataquest Corp. has the longest history as the reference publisher of this ranking. Another sources of semiconductor sales market share have also become available by iSuppli Corporation starting from year 2000. Only corporate semiconductor revenues are taken into account and businesses activities outside this sphere are excluded, for example IBM non-semiconductor business lines are excluded.

In the majority of cases, rankings are based on the analysis of the financial reports of the chip makers, although definitional issues regarding chip types, multichip modules, foundry manufacturing and chip license revenues create differences in reported numbers. The ranking for a given year is published in March of the following year when all the financial reports of the companies are closed.

What is interesting about these revenue numbers is that they are nominal (without factoring in for inflation). Many companies' revenues in 2009 after inflation (~ 3%/year), would actually be lower than in 2000. This is an important point that may not bode well for employment in this sector (i.e. real revenue per employee is lower in 2009 compared to 2000).

iSuppli analysis report

Ranking for year 2011

Source : IHS iSuppli Semiconductor preliminary rankings for 2011 IHS iSuppli supplied rankings for 2011

(foundries excluded)

Rank 2011	Rank 2010	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)	2011/2010 changes	Market share
1	1	Intel Corporation(1)	USA	49 685	+23.0%	15.9%
2	2	Samsung Electronics	South Korea	29 242	+3.0%	9.3%
3	4	Texas Instruments(2)	USA	14 081	+8.4%	4.5%
4	3	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	13 362	+2.7%	4.3%
5	5	Renesas Electronics	Japan	11 153	-6.2%	3.6%
6	9	Qualcomm(3)	USA	10 080	+39.9%	3.2%
7	7	STMicroelectronics	FranceItaly	9 792	-5.4%	3.1%
8	6	Hynix	South Korea	8 911	-14.2%	2.8%
9	8	Micron Technology	USA	7 344	-17.3%	2.3%
10	10	Broadcom	USA	7 153	+7.0%	2.3%
11	12	AMD	USA	6 483	+2.2%	2.1%
12	13	Infineon Technologies	Germany	5 403	-14.5%	1.7%
13	14	Sony	Japan	5 153	-1.4%	1.6%
14	16	Freescale Semiconductor	USA	4 465	+2.5%	1.4%
15	11	Elpida Memory	Japan	3 854	-40.2%	1.2%
16	17	NXP	Netherlands	3 838	-4.7%	1.2%
17	20	NVIDIA	USA	3 672	+14.9%	1.2%
18	18	Marvell Technology Group	USA	3 448	-4.4%	1.1%
19	26	ON Semiconductor(4)	USA	3 423	+49.4%	1.1%
20	15	Panasonic	Japan	3 365	-32.0%	1.1%
21	21	Rohm Semiconductor	Japan	3 187	+2.2%	1.0%
22	19	MediaTek	Taiwan	2 952	-16.9%	0.9%
23	28	Nichia	Japan	2 936	+34.1%	0.9%
24	23	Analog Devices	USA	2 846	-0.6%	0.9%
25	22	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	2 742	-0.5%	0.9%
All Other companies				95 610	-0.5%	30.7%
TOTAL				311 360	1.3%	100.0%

Note:

• (1) Intel Corporation acquisition of Infineon Technologies wireless division.
• (2) Texas Instruments acquisition of National Semiconductor.
• (3) Qualcomm acquisition of Atheros Communications.
• (4) ON Semiconductor acquisition of Sanyo semiconductor division.

Ranking for year 2010

Source : iSuppli Corporation supplied rankings for 2010

(foundries excluded)

Rank 2010	Rank 2009	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)	2010/2009 changes	Market share
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	40 394	+25.5%	13.3%
2	2	Samsung Electronics	South Korea	27 834	+59.1%	9.2%
3	3	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	13 010	+26.1%	4.3%
4	4	Texas Instruments	USA	12 944	+34.1%	4.3%
5	9	Renesas Electronics (1)	Japan	11 893	+130.8%	3.9%
6	7	Hynix	South Korea	10 380	+66.2%	3.4%
7	5	STMicroelectronics	FranceItaly	10 346	+21.6%	3.4%
8	13	Micron Technology (2)	USA	8 876	+106.8%	2.9%
9	6	Qualcomm	USA	7 204	+12.4%	2.4%
10	14	Broadcom	USA	6 682	+56.2%	2.2%
11	15	Elpida Memory	Japan	6 446	+63.3%	2.1%
12	8	Advanced Micro Devices	USA	6 345	+21.9%	2.1%
13	11	Infineon Technologies	Germany	6 319	+41.8%	2.1%
14	10	Sony	Japan	5 224	+16.9%	1.7%
15	18	Panasonic Corporation	Japan	4 946	+52.5%	1.6%
16	17	Freescale Semiconductor	USA	4 357	+28.1%	1.4%
17	19	NXP	Netherlands	4 028	+24.3%	1.3%
18	23	Marvell Technology Group	USA	3 633	+41.3%	1.2%
19	16	MediaTek	Taiwan	3 553	+0.1%	1.2%
20	20	NVIDIA	USA	3 196	+13.1%	1.1%
21	21	Rohm	Japan	3 118	+20.6%	1.0%
22	22	Fujitsu Microelectronics	Japan	3 090	+20.0%	1.0%
23	24	Analog Devices	USA	2 862	+36.9%	0.9%
24	30	Maxim Integrated Products	USA	2 367	+42.8%	0.8%
25	29	Xilinx	USA	2 311	+36.0%	0.8%
Top 25				198 207	40.1%	69.5%
All Other companies				92 667	18.6%	30.5%
TOTAL				304 075	32.1%	100.0%

Note:

• (1) Renesas Electronics was formed by the merger of Renesas Technology and NEC Semiconductors.
• (2) Micron Technology acquisition of Numonyx.

Ranking for year 2009

Source : iSuppli Corporation supplied rankings for 2009

(foundries excluded)

Rank 2009	Rank 2008	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)	2009/2008 changes	Market share
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	32 410	-4.0%	14.1%
2	2	Samsung Electronics	South Korea	17 496	+3.5%	7.6%
3	3	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	10 319	-6.9%	4.5%
4	4	Texas Instruments	USA	9 617	-12.6%	4.2%
5	5	STMicroelectronics	FranceItaly	8 510	-17.6%	3.7%
6	8	Qualcomm	USA	6 409	-1.1%	2.8%
7	9	Hynix	South Korea	6 246	+3.7%	2.7%
8	12	AMD	USA	5 207	-4.6%	2.3%
9	6	Renesas Technology	Japan	5 153	-26.6%	2.2%
10	7	Sony	Japan	4 468	-35.7%	1.9%
11	10	Infineon Technologies	Germany	4 456	-25.2%	1.9%
12	11	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	4 384	-24.8%	1.9%
13	16	Micron Technology	USA	4 293	-3.2%	1.9%
14	14	Broadcom	USA	4 278	-7.9%	1.9%
15	19	Elpida Memory	Japan	3 948	+9.7%	1.7%
16	24	MediaTek	Taiwan	3 551	+22.6%	1.5%
17	13	Freescale Semiconductor	USA	3 402	-31.5%	1.5%
18	15	Panasonic Corporation	Japan	3 243	-27.5%	1.4%
19	17	NXP	Netherlands	3 240	-20.1%	1.4%
20	18	Sharp Electronics	Japan	2 977	-17.5%	1.3%
21	20	NVIDIA	USA	2 826	-12.8%	1.2%
22	25	Rohm	Japan	2 586	-22.8%	1.1%
23	23	Fujitsu Microelectronics	Japan	2 574	-13.6%	1.1%
24	22	Marvell Technology Group	USA	2 572	-15.9%	1.1%
25	26	IBM Microelectronics	USA	2 253	-8.9%	1.0%
Top 25				156 472	-10.39%	68.1%
All Other companies				73 445	-14.2%	31.9%
TOTAL				229 917	-11.7%	100.0%

Ranking for year 2008

Source : iSuppli Corporation supplied rankings for 2008

(foundries excluded)

Rank 2008	Rank 2007	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)	2008/2007 changes	Market share
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	33 767	-0.7%	13.1%
2	2	Samsung Electronics	South Korea	16 902	-14.2%	6.5%
3	4	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	11 081	-9.1%	4.3%
4	3	Texas Instruments	USA	11 068	-9.8%	4.3%
5	5	STMicroelectronics	FranceItaly	10 325	+3.3%	4.0%
6	7	Renesas Technology	Japan	7 017	-12.3%	2.7%
7	8	Sony	Japan	6 950	-13.7%	2.7%
8	13	Qualcomm	USA	6 477	+15.3%	2.5%
9	6	Hynix	South Korea	6 023	-33.4%	2.3%
10	9	Infineon Technologies	Germany	5 954	-4.0%	2.3%
11	12	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	5 826	+1.5%	2.3%
12	10	AMD	USA	5 455	-7.8%	2.1%
13	14	Freescale Semiconductor	USA	4 933	-6.3%	1.9%
14	19	Broadcom	USA	4 643	+23.9%	1.8%
15	18	Panasonic Corporation	Japan	4 473	+15.3%	1.7%
16	15	Micron Technology	USA	4 435	-8.9%	1.7%
17	11	NXP	Netherlands	4 055	-29.4%	1.6%
18	21	Sharp Electronics	Japan	3 682	+8.3%	1.4%
19	17	Elpida Memory	Japan	3 599	-6.2%	1.4%
20	25	Rohm	Japan	3 348	+27.2%	1.3%
21	20	NVIDIA	USA	3 241	-6.5%	1.3%
22	23	Marvell Technology Group	USA	3 059	+10.2%	1.2%
23	28	MediaTek	Taiwan	2 896	+18.1%	1.1%
24	26	Fujitsu Microelectronics	Japan	2 757	+9.0%	1.1%
25	24	Analog Devices	USA	2 498	-7.7%	1.0%
Top 25				174 464	-5.5%	67.5%
All Other companies				83 840	-5.3%	32.5%
TOTAL				258 304	-5.2%	100.0%

Ranking for year 2007

Source : iSuppli Corporation supplied rankings for 2007

(foundries excluded)

Rank 2007	Rank 2006	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)	2007/2006 changes	Market share
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	33 995	+7.8%	12.6%
2	2	Samsung Electronics	South Korea	19 691	-0.8%	7.3%
3	3	Texas Instruments	USA	12 275	-2.6%	4.6%
4	4	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	12 186	+20.2%	4.5%
5	5	STMicroelectronics	FranceItaly	10 000	+1.5%	3.7%
6	7	Hynix	South Korea	9 047	+15.0%	3.4%
7	6	Renesas Technology	Japan	8 001	1.3%	3.0%
8	15	Sony	Japan	7 974	+55.5%	3.0%
9	14	Infineon Technologies	Germany	6 201	+21.1%	2.3%
10	8	AMD	USA	5 918	-21.2%	2.2%
11	10	NXP	Netherlands	5 746	+0.7%	2.1%
12	11	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	5 742	+2.5%	2.1%
13	16	Qualcomm	USA	5 619	+24.1%	2.1%
14	9	Freescale Semiconductors	USA	5 264	-6.3%	2.0%
15	13	Micron Technology	USA	4 869	-7.2%	1.8%
16	12	Qimonda	Germany	4 005	-26.0%	1.5%
17	19	Elpida Memory	Japan	3 838	+8.8%	1.4%
18	17	Matsushita Electric	Japan	3 800	-5.5%	1.4%
19	18	Broadcom	USA	3 746	+2.1	1.4%
20	25	NVIDIA	USA	3 466	+34.4%	1.3%
21	20	Sharp Electronics	Japan	3 401	+1.8%	1.3%
22	21	IBM Microelectronics	USA	2 977	-6.1%	1.1%
23	26	Marvell Technology Group	USA	2 777	+8.9%	1.0%
24	23	Analog Devices	USA	2 707	+4.0%	1.0%
25	22	Rohm	Japan	2 633	-8.6%	1.0%
Top 25				185 878	+4.3%	69.1%
All Other companies				83 027	+0.8%	30.9%
TOTAL				268 905	+3.3%	100.0%

Ranking for year 2006

Source : iSuppli Corporation supplied rankings for 2006

(foundries excluded)

Rank 2006	Rank 2005	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)	2006/2005 changes	Market share
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	31 542	-11.1%	12.1%
2	2	Samsung Electronics	South Korea	19 842	+12.0%	7.6%
3	3	Texas Instruments	USA	12 600	+17.3%	4.8%
4	4	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	10 141	+11.7%	3.9%
5	5	STMicroelectronics	FranceItaly	9 854	+11.0%	3.8%
6	7	Renesas Technology (merger of Mitsubishi and Hitachi Semiconductors)	Japan	7 900	-2.6%	3.0%
7	11	Hynix	South Korea	7 865	+41.5%	3.0%
8	15	AMD (1)	USA	7 506	+91.6%	2.9%
9	10	Freescale (3)	USA	5 988	+7.0%	2.3%
10	9	NXP (2) (spin-off from Philips Semiconductors)	Netherlands	5 874	+4.0%	2.3%
11	8	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	5 679	-0.5%	2.2%
12	-	Qimonda (4) (spin-off from Infineon)	Germany	5 413	N/A	2.1%
13	12	Micron Technology	USA	5 210	+9.1%	2.0%
14	6	Infineon Technologies (4)	Germany	5 119	-38.3%	2.0%
15	13	Sony	Japan	4 852	+6.1%	1.9%
16	16	Qualcomm	USA	4 529	+31.0%	1.7%
17	14	Matsushita Electric	Japan	4 022	-2.6%	1.5%
18	20	Broadcom	USA	3 668	+37.3	1.4%
19	28	Elpida Memory	Japan	3 527	+98.6%	1.4%
20	17	Sharp Electronics	Japan	3 341	+2.3%	1.3%
21	19	IBM Microelectronics	USA	3 172	+13.6%	1.2%
22	18	Rohm	Japan	2 882	-0.9%	1.1%
23	22	Analog Devices	USA	2 603	+7.2%	1.0%
24	24	Spansion (5)	JapanUSA	2 579	+25.6%	1.0%
25	23	NVIDIA	USA	2 574	+24.4%	1.0%
Other companies				81 912	+7.3%	31.5%
TOTAL				260 194	+9.3%	100.0%

Notes :

• (1) : In December 2005, AMD divested itself of its Flash Memory business, choosing solely to focus on its microprocessor and logic businesses. This change led to predictions that AMD's market share and spot in these rankings would drop precipitously. However, in June 2006 AMD announced its intent to purchase ATI Technologies. The buyout of ATI Technologies closed in October 2006, and the additional revenues from the purchase of ATI make up the majority of AMD's revenue and market share gains (in the terms of this list)
• (2) : In 2006, the semiconductor operations of the parent company, Philips were sold to a consortium of private equity firms through an LBO to form a new separate legal entity named NXP Semiconductors.
• (3) : In 2006, Freescale (formerly known as Motorola semiconductors) agreed to be acquired by a consortium of private equity firms through an LBO —said to be the largest leveraged buyout of a technology company in history—.
• (4) : In 2006, the memory activities (essentially DRAM) of the parent company, Infineon were spun off to form a new separate legal entity named Qimonda. The comparison between year 2006 and 2005 takes into account this split. Qimonda becomes the world's fourth largest DRAM manufacturer.
• (5) : In 2006, Spansion joint-venture from AMD 37% and Fujitsu 63%.

Ranking for year 2005

Source : iSuppli Corporation supplied rankings for 2005

(foundries excluded)

Rank 2005	Rank 2004	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	35 466
2	2	Samsung Electronics	South Korea	17 210
3	3	Texas Instruments	USA	10 745
4	7	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	9 077
5	6	STMicroelectronics	FranceItaly	8 881
6	4	Infineon Technologies (Semiconductor spin-off from Siemens)	Germany	8 266
7	5	Renesas Technology (merger of Mitsubishi and Hitachi Semiconductors)	Japan	8 310
8	8	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	5 710
9	9	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	5 646
10	10	Freescale (spin-off from Motorola Semiconductors)	USA	5 598
11	14	Hynix	South Korea	5 560
12	13	Micron Technology	USA	4 775
13	15	Sony Semiconductors	Japan	4 574
14	12	Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	4 131
15	11	AMD (1)	USA	3 917
16	17	Qualcomm (3) (fabless)	USA	3 457
17	16	Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	3 266
18	19	Rohm	Japan	2 909
19	20	IBM Microelectronics (2)	USA	2 792
20	22	Broadcom (3) (fabless)	USA	2 671
Other Companies				84 191
Total Revenue				237 139

Notes :

• (1) : In 2005, the two companies AMD and Fujitsu sold their stake in their joint-venture company Spansion previously controlled by AMD. With combined revenues of $5.97 billion in 2005, AMD/Spansion would have jumped to number eight in the rankings if AMD had not spun off its Spansion flash-memory division. Following the split, AMD was ranked at 15th and Spansion at 24th in 2005.
• (2) : The foundry activities of IBM are excluded from this revenue.

Ranking for year 2004

Source : iSuppli Corporation supplied rankings for 2004

(foundries excluded)

Rank 2004	Rank 2003	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	31 346
2	2	Samsung Electronics	South Korea	15 759
3	4	Texas Instruments	USA	10 745
4	7	Infineon Technologies (Semiconductor spin-off from Siemens)	Germany	9 180
5	3	Renesas (merger of Mitsubishi and Hitachi Semiconductors)	Japan	9 000
6	6	STMicroelectronics	FranceItaly	8 760
7	5	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	8 752
8	8	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	8 752
9	10	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	5 692
10	9	Freescale (ex-Motorola Semiconductors)	USA	5 519
11	12	AMD / Spansion	USA	5 108
12	13	Sony Semiconductors	Japan	4 794
13	11	Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	4 669
14	14	Micron Technology	USA	4 649
15	16	Hynix	South Korea	4 606
16	15	Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	3 488
17	19	Qualcomm (fabless)	USA	3 211
18	17	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	2 840
19	20	Rohm	Japan	2 824
20	22	Analog Devices	USA	2 606
Other Companies				77 715
Total Revenue				227 246

Ranking for year 2003

Source iSuppli (foundries excluded)

Rank 2003	Rank 2002	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	27 036
2	2	Samsung Electronics	South Korea	9 675
3	-	Renesas (1)	Japan	7 971
4	3	Texas Instruments	USA	7 850
5	4	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	7 571
6	5	STMicroelectronics	FranceItaly	7 238
7	6	Infineon Technologies (Semiconductor spin-off from Siemens)	Germany	7 109
8	7	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	5 250
9	8	Freescale (2)	USA	4 629
10	9	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	4 512
11	12	Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	4 016
12	17	AMD/Spansion (4)	USA	3 939
13	16	Sony Semiconductors	Japan	3 508
14	14	Micron Technology	USA	3 418
15	20	Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	3 075
16	18	Hynix	South Korea	3 071
17	13	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	2 650
18	15	IBM Microelectronics (3)	USA	2 515
19	23	Qualcomm (5) (fabless)	USA	2 398
20	19	Rohm	Japan	2 398
Other Companies				61 408
Total Revenue				181 760

Notes :

• (1) : In 2002, the semiconductor operations of the two Japanese parent companies, Mitsubishi and Hitachi were spun off and merged to form a new separate legal entity named Renesas.
• (2) : In 2003, the semiconductor operations of the parent company, Motorola were spun off to form a new separate legal entity named Freescale.
• (3) : The foundry activities of IBM are excluded from this revenue.
• (4) : In 2003, AMD and Fujitsu created a joint-venture company named Spansion, which gathers their activities in flash memories. Because AMD owns 60% of the company, its revenue is assigned to AMD in the ranking.

Ranking for year 2002

Source iSuppli (foundries excluded)

Rank 2002	Rank 2001	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	23 700
2	5	Samsung Electronics	South Korea	8 750
3	3	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	6 420
4	2	STMicroelectronics	FranceItaly	6 380
5	4	Texas Instruments	USA	6 350
6	8	Infineon Technologies (Semiconductor spin-off from Siemens)	Germany	5 370
7	7	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	5 320
8	6	Motorola Semiconductors	USA	4 810
9	9	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	4 360
10	12	Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	4 210
11	11	Mitsubishi Semiconductors	Japan	3 540
12	16	Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	3 280
13	13	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	3 130
14	18	Micron Technology	USA	2 870
15	14	IBM Microelectronics (1)	USA	2 810
16	17	Sony Semiconductors	Japan	2 790
17	10	AMD	USA	2 660
18	19	Hynix	South Korea	2 390
19	20	Rohm	Japan	2 390
20	22	Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	2 270
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				156 360

Notes :

• (1) : The foundry activities of IBM are excluded from this revenue.

Ranking for year 2001

Source iSuppli (foundries excluded)

Rank 2001	Rank 2000	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	23 540
2	6	STMicroelectronics	FranceItaly	6 360
3	2	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	6 070
4	3	Texas Instruments	USA	6 050
5	4	Samsung Semiconductors	South Korea	5 240
6	7	Motorola Semiconductors	USA	4 830
7	5	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	4 800
8	8	Infineon Technologies (Semiconductor spin-off from Siemens)	Germany	4 560
9	9	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	4 410
10	16	AMD	USA	3 890
11	11	Mitsubishi Semiconductors	Japan	3 870
12	12	Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	3 750
13	15	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	3 730
14	18	IBM Microelectronics (1)	USA	3 560
15	13	Agere Systems (2)	USA	3 140
16	17	Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	3 010
17	20	Sony Semiconductors	Japan	2 730
18	10	Micron Technology	USA	2 450
19	14	Hynix	South Korea	2 370
20	23	Rohm	Japan	2 210
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				150 470

Notes :

• (1) : The foundry activities of IBM are excluded from this revenue.
• (2) : In 2000, the semiconductor operations of parent company, Lucent Technologies were spun off to form a new separate legal entity named Agere Systems.

Ranking for year 2000

Source iSuppli (foundries excluded)

Rank 2000	Rank 1999	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1		Intel Corporation	USA	30 210
2		Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	10 430
3		Texas Instruments	USA	9 200
4		Samsung Semiconductors	South Korea	8 940
5		NEC Semiconductors	Japan	8 200
6		STMicroelectronics	FranceItaly	7 890
7		Motorola Semiconductors	USA	7 710
8		Infineon Technologies (Semiconductor spin-off from Siemens)	Germany	6 740
9		Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	6 270
10		Micron Technology	USA	6 260
11		Mitsubishi Semiconductors	Japan	5 790
12		Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	5 690
13		Agere Systems (2)	USA	5 100
14		Hyundai Semiconductors	South Korea	5 100
15		Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	5 010
16		AMD	USA	4 380
17		Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	4 330
18		IBM Microelectronics (1)	USA	3 990
19		Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	3 330
20		Sony Semiconductors	Japan	3 290
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				220 460

Notes :

• (1) : The foundry activities of IBM are excluded from this revenue.
• (2) : In 2000, the semiconductor operations of parent company, Lucent Technologies were spun off to form a new separate legal entity named Agere Systems.

Gartner Dataquest analysis report

Ranking for year 1999

Source Gartner Dataquest Corp.

Rank 1999	Rank 1998	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	26 806
2	2	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	9 210
3	4	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	7 618
4	7	Samsung Semiconductors	South Korea	7 125
5	5	Texas Instruments	USA	7 120
6	3	Motorola Semiconductors	USA	6 394
7	6	Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	5 554
8	11	Infineon Technologies (1)	Germany	5 223
9	9	STMicroelectronics	FranceItaly	5 077
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				169 100

Notes :

• (1) : In April 1999, the semiconductor operations of parent company, Siemens were spun off to form a new separate legal entity named Infineon Technologies.

Ranking for year 1998

Source Gartner Dataquest Corp.

Rank 1998	Rank 1997	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	22 784
2	2	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	8 135
3	3	Motorola Semiconductors	USA	7 086
4	5	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	5 869
5	4	Texas Instruments	USA	5 820
6	6	Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	4 620
7	7	Samsung Semiconductors	South Korea	4 595
8	8	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	4 445
9	10	STMicroelectronics (1)	FranceItaly	4 197
10	9	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	3 826
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				134 800

Notes :

• (1) : In 1998, following the withdrawal of Thomson SA, the company SGS-Thomson has been renamed into STMicroelectronics.

Ranking for year 1997

Source Gartner Dataquest Corp.

Rank 1997	Rank 1996	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	21 746
2	2	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	10 222
3	3	Motorola Semiconductors	USA	8 067
4	6	Texas Instruments	USA	7 352
5	4	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	7 253
6	5	Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	6 298
7	7	Samsung Semiconductors	South Korea	5 856
8	9	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	4 440
9	8	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	4 622
10	10	SGS-Thomson	FranceItaly	4 019
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				147 200

Ranking for year 1996

Source Gartner Dataquest Corp.

Rank 1996	Rank 1995	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	17 781
2	2	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	10 428
3	5	Motorola Semiconductors	USA	8 076
4	3	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	8 029
5	5	Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	7 953
6	7	Texas Instruments	USA	7 064
7	6	Samsung Semiconductors	South Korea	6 464
8	8	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	4 293
9	11	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	4 179
10	14	SGS-Thomson	FranceItaly	4 122
11	9	Mitsubishi Semiconductors	Japan	3 913
12	15	Siemens Semiconductors	Germany	3 029
13	13	Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	3 003
14	12	IBM Microelectronics	USA	2 247
15	20	National Semiconductor	USA	2 380
16	19	Sanyo Semiconductors	Japan	2 314
17	10	Hyundai Semiconductors	South Korea	2 247
18	16	LG Semiconductors	South Korea	2 243
19	18	Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	2 124
20	25	Lucent Technologies (1)	USA	2 110
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				-- ---

Notes :

• (1) : Lucent Technologies is composed of what was formerly AT&T Technologies, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs. It was spun off from AT&T in 1996.

Ranking for year 1995

Source Gartner Dataquest Corp.

Rank 1995	Rank 1994	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	13 172
2	2	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	11 314
3	3	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	10 077
4	5	Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	9 137
5	4	Motorola Semiconductors	USA	8 732
6	7	Samsung Semiconductors	South Korea	8 329
7	6	Texas Instruments	USA	7 831
8	8	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	5 538
9	9	Mitsubishi Semiconductors	Japan	5 272
10	-	Hyundai Semiconductors	South Korea	4 132
11	10	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	3 901
12	13	IBM Microelectronics	USA	3 522
13	11	Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	3 476
14	12	SGS-Thomson	FranceItaly	3 554
15	18	Siemens Semiconductors	Germany	3 062
16	20	LG Semiconductors	South Korea	2 863
17	14	Sanyo Semiconductors	Japan	2 714
18	-	Micron Technology	USA	2 601
19	15	Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	2 592
20	17	National Semiconductor	USA	2 408
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				-- ---

Ranking for year 1994

Source Gartner Dataquest Corp.

Rank 1994	Rank 1993	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	10 099
2	2	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	7 961
3	4	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	7 556
4	3	Motorola Semiconductors	USA	7 238
5	5	Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	6 644
6	6	Texas Instruments	USA	5 552
7	7	Samsung Semiconductors	South Korea	4 832
8	8	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	3 869
9	9	Mitsubishi Semiconductors	Japan	3 772
10	12	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	2 920
11	11	Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	2 896
12	14	SGS-Thomson	FranceItaly	2 640
13	10	IBM Microelectronics	USA	2 532
14	15	Sanyo Semiconductors	Japan	2 321
15	16	Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	2 188
16	17	AMD	USA	2 134
17	18	National Semiconductor	USA	2 127
18	13	Siemens Semiconductors	Germany	2 090
19	19	Sony Semiconductors	Japan	1 876
20	-	LG Semiconductors	South Korea	1 697
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				-- ---

Ranking for year 1993

Source Gartner Dataquest Corp.

Rank 1993	Rank 1992	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	Intel Corporation	USA	7 970
2	2	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	6 141
3	4	Motorola Semiconductors	USA	5 957
4	3	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	5 727
5	5	Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	5 015
6	6	Texas Instruments	USA	4 083
7	11	Samsung Semiconductors	South Korea	3 044
8	7	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	2 928
9	8	Mitsubishi Semiconductors	Japan	2 823
10	-	IBM Microelectronics	USA	2 510
11	10	Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	2 344
12	9	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	2 300
13	17	Siemens Semiconductors	Germany	2 060
14	13	SGS-Thomson	FranceItaly	2 038
15	15	Sanyo Semiconductors	Japan	1 843
16	16	Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	1 760
17	14	AMD	USA	1 660
18	12	National Semiconductor	USA	1 509
19	18	Sony Semiconductors	Japan	1 398
20	19	OKI Semiconductors	Japan	1 187
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				-- ---

Ranking for year 1992

Source Gartner Dataquest Corp.

Rank 1992	Rank 1991	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	3	Intel Corporation	USA	5 091
2	1	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	4 869
3	2	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	4 675
4	4	Motorola Semiconductors	USA	3 634
5	5	Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	3 851
6	6	Texas Instruments	USA	3 087
7	7	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	2 553
8	8	Mitsubishi Semiconductors	Japan	2 213
9	10	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	2 113
10	9	Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	1 942
11	12	Samsung Semiconductors	South Korea	1 900
12	11	National Semiconductor	USA	1 797
13	13	SGS-Thomson	FranceItaly	1 605
14	17	AMD	USA	1 514
15	14	Sanyo Semiconductors	Japan	1 385
16	15	Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	1 354
17	16	Siemens Semiconductors	Germany	1 245
18	18	Sony Semiconductors	Japan	1 103
19	19	OKI Semiconductors	Japan	956
20	-	AT&T Semiconductors	USA	911
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				-- ---

Ranking for year 1991

Source Gartner Dataquest Corp.

Rank 1991	Rank 1990	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	4 774
2	2	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	4 579
3	5	Intel Corporation	USA	4 019
4	3	Motorola Semiconductors	USA	3 802
5	4	Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	3 765
6	7	Texas Instruments	USA	2 738
7	6	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	2 705
8	8	Mitsubishi Semiconductors	Japan	2 303
9	10	Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	2 037
10	9	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	2 022
11	11	National Semiconductor	USA	1 602
12	13	Samsung Semiconductors	South Korea	1 473
13	12	SGS-Thomson	FranceItaly	1 362
14	15	Sanyo Semiconductors	Japan	1 462
15	16	Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	1 218
16	14	Siemens Semiconductors	Germany	1 263
17	17	AMD	USA	1 226
18	18	Sony Semiconductors	Japan	1 196
19	19	OKI Semiconductors	Japan	981
20	-	Rohm	Japan	934
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				-- ---

Ranking for year 1990

Source Gartner Dataquest Corp.

Rank 1990	Rank 1989	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	4 322
2	2	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	4 202
3	4	Motorola Semiconductors	USA	3 539
4	3	Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	3 516
5	8	Intel Corporation	USA	3 171
6	6	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	2 599
7	5	Texas Instruments	USA	2 574
8	7	Mitsubishi Semiconductors	Japan	2 108
9	10	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	1 955
10	9	Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	1 826
11	11	National Semiconductor	USA	1 653
12	12	SGS-Thomson	FranceItaly	1 441
13	13	Samsung Semiconductors	South Korea	1 315
14	15	Siemens Semiconductors	Germany	1 204
15	14	Sanyo Semiconductors	Japan	1 196
16	16	Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	1 194
17	17	AMD	USA	1 053
18	19	Sony Semiconductors	Japan	1 010
19	18	OKI Semiconductors	Japan	954
20	20	Harris Semiconductor	USA	800
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				-- ---

Ranking for year 1989

Source Gartner Dataquest Corp.

Rank 1989	Rank 1988	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	4 489
2	2	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	4 310
3	3	Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	3 622
4	4	Motorola Semiconductors	USA	3 183
5	5	Texas Instruments	USA	2 787
6	6	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	2 770
7	8	Mitsubishi Semiconductors	Japan	2 500
8	7	Intel Corporation	USA	2 430
9	9	Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	1 804
10	10	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	1 643
11	11	National Semiconductor	USA	1 552
12	12	SGS-Thomson	FranceItaly	1 271
13	18	Samsung Semiconductors	South Korea	1 260
14	14	Sanyo Semiconductors	Japan	1 154
15	20	Siemens Semiconductors	Germany	1 154
16	15	Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	1 107
17	13	AMD	USA	1 100
18	17	OKI Semiconductors	Japan	1 083
19	16	Sony Semiconductors	Japan	996
20	-	Harris Semiconductor	USA	830
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				-- ---

Ranking for year 1988

Source Gartner Dataquest Corp.

Rank 1988	Rank 1987	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1	1	NEC Semiconductors	Japan	4 543
2	2	Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	4 395
3	3	Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	3 506
4	4	Motorola Semiconductors	USA	3 035
5	5	Texas Instruments	USA	2 741
6	6	Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	2 607
7	10	Intel Corporation	USA	2 350
8	9	Mitsubishi Semiconductors	Japan	2 312
9	11	Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	1 883
10	7	Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	1 738
11	8	National Semiconductor	USA	1 650
12	14	SGS-Thomson	FranceItaly	1 087
13	12	AMD	USA	1 084
14	13	Sanyo Semiconductors	Japan	1 083
15	18	Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	1 036
16	19	Sony Semiconductors	Japan	950
17	17	OKI Semiconductors	Japan	847
18	-	Samsung Semiconductors	South Korea	905
19	15	AT&T	USA	859
20	16	Siemens Semiconductors	Germany	784
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				-- ---

Ranking for year 1987

Source Gartner Dataquest Corp.

Rank 1987	Rank 1986	Company	Country of origin	Revenue (million $ USD)
1		NEC Semiconductors	Japan	3 368
2		Toshiba Semiconductor	Japan	3 029
3		Hitachi Semiconductors	Japan	2 618
4		Motorola Semiconductors	USA	2 434
5		Texas Instruments	USA	2 127
6		Fujitsu Semiconductors	Japan	1 801
7		Philips Semiconductors	Netherlands	1 602
8		National Semiconductor	USA	1 506
9		Mitsubishi Semiconductors	Japan	1 492
10		Intel Corporation	USA	1 491
11		Matsushita Semiconductors	Japan	1 457
12		AMD	USA	986
13		Sanyo Semiconductors	Japan	852
14		SGS-Thomson (1)	FranceItaly	851
15		AT&T	USA	802
16		Siemens Semiconductors	Germany	657
17		OKI Semiconductors	Japan	651
18		Sharp Semiconductors	Japan	590
19		Sony Semiconductors	Japan	571
20		General Electric	USA	520
Other Companies				-- ---
Total Revenue				-- ---

Notes :

• (1) : In June 1987, SGS-Thomson was formed from the merger of the Italian company SGS Microelettronica (Società Generale Semiconduttori) and the semiconductor arm of the French company, Thomson.

See also

• Semiconductor fabless sales leaders by year
• Semiconductor foundry sales leaders by year
• Semiconductor equipment sales leaders by year