SMM survey: what kind of metal do you like most in 2022?
Market survey agency IC Insights updated its 25th edition of McClean report forecast analysis shows that driven by strong growth in the memory market, Samsung will become the world's largest semiconductor supplier in 2021, with sales expected to grow 34% year-on-year to $833.1 billion, $7.5 billion ahead of Intel, which ranks second.
In 2021, there will be 17 semiconductor companies with sales exceeding US $10 billion, including 9 in the United States, 3 in Europe, 2 in Taiwan, 2 in South Korea, and one in Japan, including 6 Fabless (Qualcomm, Nvidia, Broadcom, MediaTek, AMD and Apple) and one contract manufacturer (TSMC). AMD, NXP and Analog joined the ranks of "super suppliers" for the first time.
Sales growth at 17 super suppliers is expected to range from 65 per cent of AMD to-1 per cent of Intel. Four companies-AMD, MediaTek, Nvidia and Qualcomm-expect sales to grow by more than 50 per cent this year.
It should be pointed out that in view of the many large mergers and acquisitions in the semiconductor industry in 2020-2021, in order to make the annual growth rate better reflect the real growth rate, the above sales figures include the semiconductor acquisition sales of enterprises in 2020 and 2021, regardless of the timing of the acquisition.
