Top 3 Semiconductor Vendors Maintain Market Position
Staff -- Semiconductor International, 2/1/1998
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The worldwide semiconductor market should rebound back with positive growth in 1997, as the market is projected to grow 5.5% in 1997, according to Dataquest.
Dataquest has not completed final results for the industry, but the most
recent estimate is the worldwide semiconductor market will reach $150
billion for 1997. Intel remained the market leader in 1997, with
semiconductor revenue surpassing $21 billion (Table 1).
Table 1. Top 10 Worldwide Semiconductor Vendors by Revenue Estimates
Source: Dataquest (January 1998)
|
1996 Rank |
1997 Rank |
Company |
1997 Revenue |
1996-1997 Revenue growth |
(%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Intel | 17,781 | 21,083 | 18.6 |
| 2 | 2 | NEC | 10,428 | 10,656 | 2.2 |
| 3 | 3 | Motorola | 8076 | 8120 | 0.5 |
| 6 | 4 | Texas Instruments | 7064 | 7660 | 8.4 |
| 5 | 5 | Toshiba | 8065 | 7507 | -6.9 |
| 4 | 6 | Hitachi | 8071 | 6523 | -19.2 |
| 7 | 7 | Samsung | 6464 | 6010 | -7.0 |
| 8 | 8 | Fujitsu | 4427 | 4872 | 10.1 |
| 9 | 9 | Philips | 4219 | 4435 | 5.1 |
| 11 | 10 | Mitsubishi | 4100 | 4097 | -0.1 |
Table 1. Top 10 Worldwide Semiconductor Vendors by Revenue
"Led by microprocessors, Intel grew its semiconductor revenue by nearly 20% during the year, which is strong performance in face of major inventory adjustments by PC OEMs," said Ron Bohn, director for Dataquest's Worldwide Semiconductor Research Operations.
"The weakening of currencies like the Korean won and Japanese yen against the U.S. dollar, however, exacerbated low memory IC pricing. This meant another year of revenue decline or no growth for a host of memory-dependent companies as measured in dollars." PS
Semiconductor International / February 1998
