Top 20 semicon rankings Q2-09 — TSMC climbs up, AMD slips down!

Very interesting, isn’t it? And I am not surprised! TSMC deserves to move up the top 20 semiconductor companies rankings!! It seems that AMD especially needs to really get its act together. First, to the rankings. Recently, IC Insights released the list of the top 20 semiconductor sales leaders during Q2-09.Source: IC Insights In this

Global semicon mid-year review: Chip market revival or blip on stats radar screen?

A recent report from Future Horizons suggests an 18 percent growth for the chip market in Q2-2009! So, is this a sign of the chip market recovery or a mere blip on the statistics radar screen? It is both, said, Malcolm Penn, chairman, founder and CEO of Future Horizons, and counselled that: “The fourth quarter

Rebounding IC ASPs and Intel-AMD dispute! Two contrasting sides of semicon!!

Friends, I’d like to draw your attention to two completely contrasting sides of the the global semiconductor industry! First, there was a significant piece of information last week, where IC Insights highlighted that the IC ASP prices were across several product segments. In fact, IC Insights further goes on to say that while it is

Global semiconductor industry could well see revival in 2010?

“Let’s start from the very beginning! A very good place to start!!” Hope you all remember this lovely song sung by Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music!! So, what’s the connection? Right! Last week, I blogged about how the global semiconductor industry is likely to drop by 28 percent in 2009, while the Indian

IC shipments likely to grow 3.8pc in 2008

The latest wireless/DSP bulletin from Forward Concepts has highlighted an improved shipments of DSP and RISC chips for cell phones as well as DSP shipments for wireless infrastructure. I had the privilege of interacting directly with Will Strauss, President & Principal Analyst, Forward Concepts, author of this particular bulletin. On being quizzed about the improvement

Top 20 global semicon companies — DRAM, Flash suppliers drop out

IC Insights recently published the May update to The McClean Report, featuring the Top 20 global semiconductor companies. Not surprisingly, there have been some significant movers and shakers. The most telling — quite a few of the major DRAM and Flash suppliers have dropped out of the Top 20 list! First the movers! Fabless supplier

Major shakeups in top 10 semiconductor supplier rankings

According to the latest report from IC Insights, there have been major shakeups in the global top 10 rankings among suppliers of semiconductors. Here’s what IC Insights has to say regarding some of the changes that took place in 3Q07: * Toshiba rode the coat-tails of a 46 percent 3Q07/2Q07 NAND flash memory market surge

IDC’s semicon predictions and top 10 vendors

Looks like a season of predictions in semiconductors. Just a few weeks back, I was looking at IC Insights’ top 20 global semicon rankings by sales. And now, we have IDC’s list of the top 10 vendors by revenue, along with predictions of its own. Let’s look at the table. According to IDC’s table, Intel,

Will Z-RAM lead DRAM rebound?

Most of us have and use swanky mobile phones with enough memory to store videos, songs, clips, images, etc. And we certainly love playing with those wonderful devices. However, have we ever wondered where is all that memory coming from? There’s DRAM, and then, there’s Z-RAM. Another news! It was reported recently that record sales

Shifts in top 20 global semicon rankings

If the recent preliminary results released by IC Insights is anything to go by, there have been some movements among the top 20 semiconductor companies of the world during H1-2007. This is best illustrated by the table below. While the top three — Intel, Samsung and TI, retain their positions, ST and Toshiba have exchanged