Top 20 semiconductor suppliers in year 2013, forecast by IC Insights

The well-known semiconductor market researcher IC Insights has forecasted the top 20 semiconductor suppliers for the year 2013. The list includes both pure play foundries and semiconductor vendors. Below is the market analysis points shared by IC Insights: he top-20 ranking includes three pure-play foundries (TSMC, GlobalFoundries, and UMC) and five fabless companies. IC foundries are included in the top-20 semiconductor supplier ranking because IC Insights has always viewed the ranking as a top supplier list, not as a marketshare ranking, and realizes that in some cases semiconductor sales are double counted. With many of our clients being vendors to the semiconductor industry (supplying equipment, chemicals, gases, etc.), excluding large IC manufacturers like the foundries would leave significant “holes” in the list of top semiconductor suppliers. Overall, the list shown in Figure 1 provides a guideline to identify which companies are the leading semiconductor suppliers, whether they are IDMs, fabless companies, or foundries. Excluding the foundries of TSMC, GlobalFoundries, and UMC, from the top-20 ranking would bring Fujitsu ($3,524 million), Marvell ($3,205 million), and Sharp ($3,078 million) into the 18th, 19th, and 20th positions, respectively. There are numerous changes expected within the top-20 semiconductor ranking in 2013 as compared to the top 20 rankin...