As in previous years, ICInsights released 2017 global semiconductor vendor revenue rankings, statistics pointed out that this year's global semiconductor plant rankings will be a major reshuffle, Samsung will crowd over the long-term hegemony Intel, made the throne; MediaTek is in memory and artificial intelligence ( With the rise of AI) forces, this year will be squeezed out of ten. This survey does not include professional foundries, so even if TSMC's revenue growth this year, it still does not appear in the statistical rankings.
According to the ICInsights survey, Samsung’s revenue forecast this year will reach US$65.6 billion and its market share will reach 15%, which will squeeze Intel and become the world’s largest semiconductor company. This will be the first time that Intel has been the leader of the semiconductor industry since 1993 and will be the first time in its history to win the championship.
Intel’s revenue in the first quarter of this year is still larger than Samsung’s, ranking second in the second quarter. It’s estimated that this year’s full-year revenue will reach US$60 billion with a market share of 13.9%. Although the revenue is about 7 percent higher than last year's $57 billion, the market share will decline by 1.7%. Intel's revenue continues to grow, representing Samsung's ability to win, not because of Intel's own recession, but because Samsung is benefiting from rising memory prices, which drives revenue growth to grow at the same time and boost market share.
The memory industry was in short supply, and the price rose quarter by quarter. In addition to Samsung, two other memory giants SK Hynix and Micron both benefited, and their revenue rankings have grown significantly. SK Hynix’s revenue forecast for this year will reach US$26.2 billion, ranking third in the world, ranking two places higher than last year's fifth place. Micron will also enter fourth place with revenue of US$24 billion. Name, same progress two.
Global Netcom’s leading chipmaker Broadcom’s revenue estimate for this year reached US$17.6 billion, slightly higher than Qualcomm’s US$17.1 billion, ranking the fifth and sixth largest plants in the world; followed by Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Nvidia and NXP.
How do domestic chip design companies
In the first quarter of 2017, the overall growth of China's chip design industry was as high as 23.8%, with sales reaching 35.16 billion yuan. The global market share of China's self-designed chips has reached 8% in the world, and the Chinese market share has reached 13%.
The following figure shows the ranking of Chinese IC design companies announced by the China Semiconductor Industry Association in 2016. It can be seen that through the integration of Ziguang Group with Spreadtrum and RDA, there have been two domestic IC design giants with a total amount exceeding RMB 10 billion. Thinking and violet light show sharp.
In addition to the top ten, there are some very interesting Chinese IC design companies. The first is the field of memory chips. Among the integrated circuits imported by China each year, memory chips and CPUs account for about 75% of the total, and the status of memory chips can be seen.
In the field of memory chips, there are two Chinese companies that are trying to attack. One is Mega Innovation, and the other is Yangtze River Storage. At present, there are three types of memory chips in the world. According to the order of sales: DRAM, NANDFlash, and NorFlash. Although NorFlash ranks third, compared with the former two, the market size is still small, only 3 billion US dollars. The first two are roughly at the level of 40 billion U.S. dollars and 30 billion U.S. dollars.
Hope for the Future: The Cambrian Period
Artificial intelligence is the general trend of the development of all human industries. In this field, dedicated chips will become the mainstream of the future. Almost all ICT companies, whether domestic Baidu, Ali, Tencent, Huawei, or the United States, Google, facebook, Amazon, Microsoft are all in the direction of artificial intelligence.
In August 2017, Cambrian Technology, founded by two brothers Chen Yunyi and Chen Tianshi of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, announced the completion of Alibaba's $100 million Series A round of financing. This round of funding resulted in the Cambrian valuation reaching 1 billion yuan. Dollars. This is also China's first IC industry unicorn company (valued at more than 1 billion US dollars), which can be regarded as a milestone.
It is worth mentioning that the average age of the members of the Cambrian team is only 25 years old, and many key members have started to work in related fields while they are in school. The founders Chen Yunji and Chen Tianshi are brothers and they are academic tyrants.
The other is Godson, Dr. Hu Weiwu is a person who insists on independent research and development. He also cultivated the Cambrian founder Chen Yunqi and trained a group of independent research and development chips. I think this is the biggest contribution of Godson. As far as commercialization is concerned, there is little hope for Godson, and the establishment of an ecological environment must have strong commercial strength and status. At present, the Loongson chips can only be used in specialized fields such as radiation protection chips used in BeiDou satellites, or special fields such as servers. , industrial control, embedded control and so on. Loongson's ability to occupy a large market share in these areas is a success.
Then, as an engineer, how do you view the domestic chip industry?
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