Thursday, November 21st 2019
Intel Takes the Crown of World's Largest Semiconductor Supplier in 2019
Intel is set to become the world's largest semiconductor supplier of 2019, according to the research from IC Insights. Intel held a crown for the largest semiconductor supplier since 1992, until 2018 when Samsung overtook it because of the booming DRAM business driven by high demand and not enough supply. Being Samsung's main business, any DRAM price/demand fluctuation was having a massive impact on its business. Due to high demand and high pricing, Samsung saw a massive revenue jump which resulted in a new king of the world's largest semiconductor supplier.
However, having seen predictions for a fall of 34% for this year, the decrease in demand will result in lower revenue for all DRAM market suppliers. SK Hynix, Micron and Samsung are expecting their revenues to decline around 29% on a year-over-year basis given the situation. This is resulting in lower revenue for Samsung than Intel has, and makes Intel the king of semiconductors once more. Intel's revenue is expected to reach around 70 billion USD, which is similar to last year's numbers.
Source:
DigiTimes
However, having seen predictions for a fall of 34% for this year, the decrease in demand will result in lower revenue for all DRAM market suppliers. SK Hynix, Micron and Samsung are expecting their revenues to decline around 29% on a year-over-year basis given the situation. This is resulting in lower revenue for Samsung than Intel has, and makes Intel the king of semiconductors once more. Intel's revenue is expected to reach around 70 billion USD, which is similar to last year's numbers.
15 Comments on Intel Takes the Crown of World's Largest Semiconductor Supplier in 2019
Intel: Record after record,become (again) the largest semiconductor.
Profit is not evil, evil is what you can do with profit and has nothing to do with the money.
Even backported ICE-L would ward off AMD hence their scrambling towards 5nm and Zen 4. Zen 3 will deliver modest gains at most. AMD also better pray 10nm issues arent fully resolved.
Adding to this, 9th gen parts are still very good, even if they are overtaken by Zen 2 in several metrics. The fact that a 5 year old uArch can have so much life in it is nothing short of amazing and Intel is doing the rights things in my opinion. 14nm process is not bad either, getting to 5Ghz at crazy low voltages, efficiency is very good in low power parts. I really believe that Intel found, by accident, a great business model. Just keep reiterating an old process, improve silicon, add more frequency, add more cores, while your process is getting more and more efficient in yields, costs, frequency...
But they need to move to a better process in the end.
Profit itself didn't do anything, if there are any corpses it was people that made it so and their lust for profit was the reason for it.
People do things, profit just..... Sits and does nothing on it's own.
Samsung and others in that part of the market have done some shady stuff related to plant fires, shortages to drive pricing.... We've seen it and know it's true.