IC insights recently released a forecast report on the top 15 semiconductor industry giants in 2019. Intel, which has lost its throne for two years, has finally come back, in sharp contrast to Samsung's decline.
Intel has been a leader in the semiconductor industry since 1993, but in the second quarter of 2017, Samsung overtook Intel.
In 2017 and 2018, Samsung Semiconductor business revenue exceeded Intel 7% and 12% respectively, mainly due to the high price of DRAM memory and NAND flash memory.
However, by 2019, the wind and water will turn in turn. Samsung has lost the momentum of the past. It is expected that its annual revenue will drop 29% and only US $55.610 billion will remain. Intel will maintain stability under the extremely unfavorable industry situation. It is expected that its annual revenue will be us $69.832 billion, basically the same as last year, and 26% higher than the three stars.
In fact, only three of the top 15 semiconductor giants have maintained growth. Sony boasts a 24% high-speed growth rate in the Jianghu (mobile phone photo sensors are very popular), and its ranking has jumped from the 15th to the 11th. In addition, TSMC and NVIDIA have increased slightly by 1%, ranking the 3rd and 10th respectively. Besides Intel, the other nine are falling.
The most serious decline is that the storage industry SK Hynix, Meguiar, Samsung, and Kaixia (Toshiba storage) respectively fell by 38%, 35%, 29%, and 18% -- the higher they climbed, the harder they fell.
The total decline of the 15 giants was 15%. The total annual revenue was 314893 million US dollars, and Intel alone occupied 22%.
Ranking of top 15 semiconductor giants' annual income changes in 2019 (forecast)