According to reports from foreign media, refer to the latest statistics released by market research firm, Gartner,that the revenue of global semiconductor market reached $ 302 billion, compared with last year’s $ 299 billion it is up by 1%; which Intel continued champion for 20 years ,its global market share hit a record high, reaching 16.9%.The Gartner report pointed out: “Intel maintains the position of the first semiconductor market for consecutive 20 years, Intel’s market share in 2011 is 16.9%, reaching the highest record of company’s history ,it hit the last high record share of 16.3% in 1998. ” Intel’s semiconductor revenue in 2011 is $ 51.05 billion, compared with $ 42 billion in 2010 it increased by 21.6%. With the second high market share is Samsung Electronics, the market share is 9.7%. Gartner’s report said: “Samsung’s biggest growth came from its partnership with Apple, which provides for the Apple iPhone4S and iPad2 A5 processor.” Texas Instruments ranks in third place with 4% market share. Many other companies such as Toshiba, RenesasElectronics, Qualcomm, STMicroelectronics, and Hynix Semiconductor ,their market share remaine at around 3%. With 4G and LTE next-generation communications technology, Qualcomm achieves the highest growth rate,36%.Micron and Broadcom’s market share is 2.5% and 2.3%.Early this year the semiconductor industry’s growth is still relatively strong, but because of concerns about the macroeconomic growth, in 2011 orders for equipment and semiconductors has been greatly affected.Gartner’s semiconductor research director, Stefan Orr said strong growth in the first half of this year is from continued strong growth last year, from the mid of this year, macro-economic growth began to have uncertainty, consumers stop purchase of new products, due to government is unwilling to bear the higher debt, infrastructure expansion plan has been delayed, equipment, inventories began to increase, eventually leading to the semiconductor industry has been affected.
The Trusted Name In Electronic Components