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(Redirected from Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders)This article presents the Worldwide TOP 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders over the years.
We distinguish 3 types of companies :
The chip makers who design and manufacture their chips (like Intel). The fabless companies who design and sell their chips but outsource the manufacturing to foundry companies (like ATI Technologies or Xilinx)The foundry companies who manufacture the chips designed and sold by their customers. For companies which also deal with other activities than semiconductors, only the revenue of their semiconductor activities is taken into account (for instance IBM also deals with many other activities)
Gartner Dataquest Corp. Philips 362. has the longest history as the reference publisher of this ranking and offers independent syndicated research. Alternative souces of semiconductor sales market share have also become available (for example the one given by iSuppli. 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 next year when all the financial reports of the companies are closed. Philips 362.