Market research firm IC Insights to the latest statistics show that the global semiconductor industry r&d spending grew 0.5% in 2015, a record $56.4 billion; Research and development expenditure in the top 10 IC manufacturers amounting to grow nearly 2% this year.

IC Insights, points out that the rate of growth of 0.5% is the growth of the great recession since 2009 the minimum amplitude, also clearly than in the past decade 4.0% of low average compound annual growth rate (CAGR); Although growth is less than 1%, the global semiconductor industry research and development spending amount or reached a record high in 2015, from $2014 in 54.1 billion, increased to $56.4 billion.

Concerns about the global economic sentiment weak decline in market demand, the second half of 2015 degrees, as well as the unprecedented large-scale consolidation and tide, are compressed factors of IC industry 2015 annual spending on research and development; To manufacturers, Intel (Intel) is still the leading annual r&d spending, its spending amount occupies 22% of the total amount of spending on research and development of industry.

Global semiconductor manufacturers spending amount ranking in 2015

After Intel, r&d spending the rest of the 2015 rankings of the top five semiconductor manufacturers in order to Qualcomm, Qualcomm), Samsung (Samsung), Broadcom (Broadcom), and wafer generation detect TSMC (TSMC); These five companies ranking order is the same as in 2014, but after the sixth rankings have many changes of the manufacturer.

Micron (Micron) in 2015 of spending on research and development, and progress to the fourth position to sixth, originally the sixth Toshiba (Toshiba) into the seventh; MediaTek (MediaTek) from ninth progress in 2014 to 8, while Hynix (SK Hynix) was established in 2015 by the 12th progress for ninth. Stmicroelectronics (ST) is from 8 in 2014, in 2015 to the first ten years; Nvidia is falling out of the research before spending ten big players, ranked no. 11 in 2015.

Global r&d spending of the top 10 IC manufacturers total amount of spending in 2015 increased by 2%, and the sum total amount of r&d spending than the rest of the semiconductor manufacturers combined (about $30.8 billion, $30.8 billion); The trend is up since 2005.

Britain's r&d spending grew 5% in 2015, clearly is far lower than the average 13% per year since 2010 with the company, as well as the average 8% increase since 2001; IC Insights, said the cost of developing a new generation of IC technology is more and more high, Intel's r&d spending accounts for the proportion of revenue in the past 20 years also rising ─ ─ in 2010, Intel's r&d spending to 16.4% revenue, to 2015 the proportion of 24.0%.

Global semiconductor sales decline 1% in 2015, came to $353.6 billion; The total amount of $56.4 billion in research and development spending occupy 16.0% of total revenue, with a slightly increased from 15.8% in 2014. Since 2000, the semiconductor industry research and development spending an average of 16% of total revenue.

IC Insights and predict 2016 semiconductor industry research and development spending grew 4%, to $58.9 billion, the amount to 2020 can be further increased to $76.3 billion, 2015 ~ 2020 CAGR of 6.7%; And from 2016 to 2020, estimates the semiconductor industry r&d spending accounted for an average of 16.4% of the revenue, slightly increased from 16.2% from 2011 to 2015.