Top 20 Semicondutor companies

Knowing about major players in the market is always a good things, it helps to understand how industry is moving, which are the growth areas and then people can decide upon which domain they want to specialize. Following table from ICInsight summarizes trends in Semiconductor space for year 2008.




Some analysis:

1. Wireless is still hot with Broadcomm and Qualcomm showing highest growth for the year, Thanks in part to declining TI's share.

2. Intel still remains at top by a huge margin, also it wasn't affected much by slowing consumer demand in PC segment.

3. All DRAM suppliers suffered huge decline, Hynix of South Korea topping charts with 33% decline.

Link: 53-Point Growth-Rate Delta Within 2008 Top 20 Supplier Ranking http://www.icinsights.com/news/bulletins/bulletins2009/bulletin20090302.html