Electronics Weekly
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The top 25 IC companies accounted for 72.4% of total industry revenues last year up from 70% in 2013, reports Gartner.
While the industry grew 7.9% last year the revenues of the top 25 companies grew 11.7%.
“The memory market was the best performer for the second year in a row, growing 16.6%, meaning the rest of the market only achieved 4.9% growth,” says Gartner vp Andrew Norwood, “DRAM vendors saw revenue increase 32% to $46.1 billion, surpassing the all-time high of $41.8 billion set in 1995.”
The top ten players were:
Intel $52.3bn
Samsung $34.7bn
Qualcomm $19.3bn
Micron $16.3bn
Hynix $16bn
TI $11.5bn
Toshiba $10.7bn
Broadcom $8.4bn
ST $7.4bn
Renesas $7.3bn.
