Samsung beats Intel as high semiconductor vendor as general demand rises
Intel misplaced its place atop the 2021 semiconductor income checklist to Samsung, as world demand and income within the chip sector rose, in line with Gartner.
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For the primary time since 2018, the biggest-selling semiconductor vendor on the planet was not Intel, which misplaced the highest spot to Samsung in 2021, per a report launched at present by Gartner Research.
Global semiconductor income jumped 26.3% throughout the yr, rising to $595 billion, in line with the report. Samsung’s market share, in the meantime, rose to 12.3%, buoyed by 28% year-on-year development. The South Korean electronics big took in almost $73.2 billion in whole income in 2021, up from slightly greater than $57.1 billion the earlier yr. Intel, against this, noticed its income shrink very barely, dropping from $72.7 billion in 2020 to $72.5 billion final yr, which was nonetheless good for a 12.2% share of the worldwide market.
SK Hynix took third place within the checklist for final yr, with a 40.6% year-on-year rise in income, taking it to a complete of $36.3 billion. The remainder of the highest 10 was rounded out by, in descending order: Micron, Qualcomm, Broadcom, MediaTek, Texas Instruments, Nvidia and AMD, all of which noticed income development of between 19% and 68%.
Other components, most notably US authorities sanctions, significantly impacted the market shares of China-based corporations, with Huawei-backed HiSilicon seeing an 81% year-on-year income drop between 2020 and 2021, and the Chinese semiconductor sector as an entire declining from 6.7% of whole market share to six.5%.
According to Andrew Norwood, a analysis vp at Gartner, these fast-growing revenues are principally the work of the continuing chip scarcity, coupled with sharply elevated demand on account of world 5G rollouts.
“A combination of strong demand and logistics/raw material price increases drove semiconductor average selling prices … contributing to significant revenue growth in 2021,” he stated in a press release.
While the sharpest development in 2021 was seen within the automotive market, the place demand rose by almost 35%, wi-fi communications additionally grew by 24.6%, propelled by a greater than two-fold rise within the variety of 5G-capable handsets being produced up to now yr. Enterprises upgrading Wi-Fi infrastructure to deal with staff returning to the workplace in 2021 additionally helped drive demand, in line with Gartner.
Yet the continued prominence of residence and hybrid working additionally pushed semiconductor demand in its personal method, the report famous. Memory chips, specifically, have been extremely wanted, due to rising server deployments at cloud hyperscalers working to supply providers to a still-swollen pool of home-based staff. PCs and different endpoints slated to be used by these distant staff additionally helped solidify demand.