According to Gartner Inc., a global market information consulting company, Taiwan’s smart phone IC design company MediaTek won the title of the world’s eighth largest semiconductor supplier in 2020.
Benefiting from large shipments of 5G smartphone chips and its growing market share in the global 4G smartphone chip business, MediaTek's revenue grew 38.1 percent from a year ago to $10.99 billion in 2020, Gartner said in a research report.
Gartner said that sales growth helped Taiwanese companies gain a 2.4% share of the global market, up from the 13th place a year ago, and thus ranked eighth.
Gartner said that among the top ten semiconductor suppliers in 2020, MediaTek and the US-based graphics processing unit (GPU) designer NVidia Corp. have the highest year-on-year sales growth.
According to Garner's data, with the support of game-related and data centers, NVidia ranks tenth, with a global market share of 2.3% in 2020, and its sales of 10.64 billion US dollars, an increase of 45.2% over the same period last year.
Gartner said that in 2020, global semiconductor revenue totaled 466.2 million US dollars, an increase of 10.4% year-on-year. However, the report does not include revenue generated by pure foundry business, which is dominated by TSMC.
"Memory, GPU and 5G chipsets have led the growth of semiconductors driven by market demand for ultra-large, PC, ultra-mobile and 5G mobile phones, while automotive and industrial electronics have suffered due to COVID-19 spending reduction or spending suspension. Loss," Gartner research vice president Andrew Norwood said in a statement.
According to Gartner, Intel is the world's largest semiconductor supplier, with a total output value of US$72.76 billion by 2020, a year-on-year increase of 7.4%. Gartner added that Intel accounts for 15.6% of total global revenue.
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics ranked second with revenue of US$57.73 billion, accounting for 12.4% of global revenue, an increase of 10.2% over the same period last year, ahead of South Korean memory chip manufacturer SK Hynix Inc. (US$25.85 billion). Gartner said that US memory chips Manufacturer Micron Technology (US$22.04 billion) and American smartphone chip designer Qualcomm (US$17.63 billion) ranked fourth and fifth, respectively.
American IC design company Broadcom Inc. ranked sixth in 2020 with sales of 15.76 billion U.S. dollars, followed by American chip supplier Texas Instruments Inc. (13.62 billion U.S. dollars), MediaTek, NVidia and Tokyo-based KIOXIA. Corp. ($10.37), Gartner added.
