Semiconductor market research firm IC Insights to the latest published in 2016 in the first half of the top 20 largest semiconductor (including integrated circuits, optoelectronic devices, sensors and a discrete device) sales rankings. Top 20 largest semiconductor company exclusive eight in the United States, Japan, Europe, China Taiwan three each, South Korea two, one in Singapore.

In the first half of 2016 has 13 semiconductor company sales of more than $3 billion. In spite of the growth of the global smartphone is expected to only 5% this year, but with the OPPO and vivo shipments of exploding, mediatek in the second quarter of 2016 sales of $2.239 billion, with 32% of the fastest growth leading global semiconductor manufacturers. According to the IC Insights are expected, mediatek full-year sales is expected to reach $2016 in 8.8 billion, will have 31% ($6.7 billion) a year on year growth.

In the top twenty major semiconductor manufacturers, contains three pure foundries (TSMC, GlobalFoundries and ucm) and six fabs semiconductor company. If exclude three pure foundries, China's largest semiconductor company huawei haisi will with sales of $1.71 billion is among the 18th, the United States manufacturing semiconductors and ADI company with sales of $1.695 billion and $1.583 billion is among the 19, 20).

Additionally, surprisingly, only on apple multiply their products delivery, IC Insights, expects apple series A processor based on ARM architecture in the first half of 2016 sales of more than $2.9 billion, ranked 14th in the world.