According to market research institutions IC Insights, in the first quarter of 2016 global semiconductor sales fell 7% year on year, the top 20 largest semiconductor company total sales fell 6% year on year. Seven of the top 20 largest semiconductor double-digit decline, compared to the same three drop even reached more than 20%, is high (25%) respectively, meguiar's (28%) and hynix (30%). Ten of the top 20 largest semiconductor manufacturer in the first quarter of 2016 sales of more than $2 billion.
AMD with sales of $832 million to enter the top 20 big threshold. Condition is not good, but AMD 2016 fell 19% year-on-year in the first quarter, sales in the fourth quarter of 2013 AMD can also to $158.9 million, in the last quarter was worth only half of the two years ago. Although AMD is very bleak, but Japan's sharp than AMD miserably, sharp sales fell 30% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2016, and dropped out of the top 20.
Three of the top 20 large wafer foundry company exclusively, TSMC, Romania and umc), excluding the three foundries, American manufacturing semiconductor haisi semiconductors ($817 million), China ($817 million) and Japan's sharp ($800 million) will be able to make the top 20.
The years of 2015 is the semiconductor big mergers and acquisitions, in order to make the data be comparative, IC Insights combine announced last year to buy the company's revenues are merged (in the first quarter of 2015). Intel, for example, in December 2015 to complete acquisition of Altera, but Altera's revenue in the first quarter of 2015 ($435 million) included in Intel's revenue in the first quarter of 2015 ($11.632 billion), that Intel's revenue in the first quarter of 2015 was $12.067 billion. In the same company mergers and acquisitions in the first quarter of 2015 revenue into the calculation of broadcom (anwar high/broadcom), grace wisdom pu (grace wisdom pu/freescale) to pass the Romania Romania DE/IBM (division).
In the top 20 largest semiconductor company list, apple is a rarity. Apple design of chip never delivered, only for its own products. In the first quarter of 2016 apples on the basis of ARM development of SoC processors "sales" of $1.39 billion, rose 10% year-on-year. Since 2007, 13 iPhone using apple processor, since 2010, there are 12 processor device also USES a different type of apple. Apple chips are used in the iPod mobile media play equipment, smart watches, and apple TV. In September 2015, sale of the iPhone 6 and iPhone s used in 64 A9 processor made by TSMC and samsung, respectively.
From the perspective of the data of the first quarter of 2016, Intel top position stronger. The revenue gap widened to 40% from 29% in the first quarter of 2015. In the top 20 rankings of the fastest rising is broadcom and nvidia, both ranking rose three places.
Predictably, 2016, still there will be a big mergers and acquisitions and integration (for example, has announced the Microchip and Atmel), there is no doubt that the next twenty years ago the big changes in ranking will be very intense.
