Qualcomm, AMD head top 25 fabless IC suppliers for 2009; Taiwan firms finish strong!
So, IC Insights has revealed the top 25 list of fabless IC suppliers for 2009! No surprises, Qualcomm still leads!
However, AMD is the surprise runner-up, for now. The reason being: AMD became a fabless company by including its Dresden, Germany fabs as part of GlobalFoundries spin-off. IC Insights included all of AMD’s sales for 2009 in its study.
Some other interesting points
First, as many as nine fabless IC companies — all of the top nine companies — had sales of $1 billion or more in 2009. These are: Qualcomm, AMD, Broadcom, MediaTek, nVidia, Marvell, Xilinx, LSI Corp., Altera and Avago! And you still believe there was a recession in H1-09?
Movers and shakers
So, who are the leading top movers and shakers?
The list comprises fabless IC suppliers from the USA — which has 17 representations, including nine suppliers in the top 10! Taiwan has six representations, with one — MediaTek — figuring among the top 10, well, top five actually! Europe and Japan have one representation each — in CSR and MegaChips.
The other impressive performers — all from Taiwan — have been Realtek with 15 percent growth, Mstar with 33 percent growth, and Richtek with 12 percent growth.
From the USA, Atheros and Silicon Labs have registered 6 percent growth during 2009, respectively. Besides these two, Qualcomm registered 2 percent growth.
So, Taiwan firms have indeed finished strongly in 2009, as compared to the others, with four of the six representative firms registering positive growth during 2009.
The rest of the companies in the top 25 list registered negative growth!
Will we see more of Chinese companies making this list? Probably yes, in the years ahead!
According to the GSA Dec. 2008 figures, the distribution of fabless IC companies is: Canada 29, USA 606, Europe 151, Israel 61 and Asia 510 — China 222, Taiwan 196, Korea 47, Japan 16, Taiwan 16, Singapore 7, Malaysia 4, and India 2-28 (two fabless companies and 28 design services/IC providers).
Business continues to grow in India and it has spilled into third party design and IP houses, and some into a few fabless companies, and assembly and test facilities. This means: there’s lots of room for growth!
India has all of the enablers to move up higher!
Hi,
Very informative post. Does India have mobiles powered by Mediatek chips? We have many domestic players like Lava, Maxx, Spice, Fly, Geepee, Karbon, Videocon, etc., the list is now a days becoming endless.
Please help me in choosing a high speed mediatek ARM processor powered mobile.
Thanks
Dear Pradeep,
I need components suppliers in the USA, a company run by Indians…
Very informative post. But, why is ARM not in the list? Also, would like to know which are the fabless companies in India?