Worldwide semiconductor income elevated 25.1% in 2021 to whole $583.5 billion, crossing the $500 billion threshold for the primary time, in response to preliminary outcomes by analysis agency Gartner, Inc.
“As the worldwide economic system bounced again in 2021, shortages appeared all through the semiconductor provide chain, notably within the automotive trade,” said Andrew Norwood, research vice president at Gartner. “The resulting combination of strong demand as well as logistics and raw material price increases drove semiconductors’ average selling price higher (ASP), contributing to overall revenue growth in 2021.”
“The 5G smartphone market additionally helped drive semiconductor income, with unit manufacturing greater than doubling to achieve 555 million in 2021, in comparison with 250 million in 2020. U.S. sanctions imposed on Huawei resulted in different Chinese smartphone OEMs gaining share and fuelling development for 5G chipset distributors comparable to Qualcomm, MediaTek and Skyworks. Meanwhile HiSilicon, Huawei’s chip subsidiary, noticed income decline from $8.2 billion in 2020 to round $1 billion in 2021,” Norwood added.
Samsung Electronics regained the highest spot from Intel for the primary time since 2018, with income growing 31.6% in 2021. Its reminiscence income grew 34.2% in 2021, in step with the expansion charge of the general reminiscence market. Intel dropped to the No. 2 place with 0.5% development in 2021, delivering the bottom development charge among the many high 25 distributors.
Memory was once more the best-performing system class, primarily resulting from elevated server deployments by hyperscale cloud suppliers to fulfill distant working, studying and leisure wants, in addition to a surge in end-market demand for PCs and ultramobiles. Revenue elevated $42.1 billion over 2020, which amounted to 33.8% of total semiconductor income development in 2021.
Within reminiscence, DRAM had the very best efficiency with income development of 40.4% in 2021, growing income to $92.5 billion in 2021. Strong demand from servers and PCs created a DRAM undersupply that drove double-digit ASPs by means of many of the yr.
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