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- January 7, 2023
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Top 10 chip manufacturers in the world
Chips are an indispensable item in our lives. Any electronic products need chips, then who are the top 10 chip manufacturers in the world? Let’s take a look.
Intel
Established time | 1968-7-18 |
Headquarters | Santa Clara, CA |
Company website | intel.com |
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world’s largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue and is one of the developers of the x86 series of instruction sets, the instruction sets found in most personal computers (PCs). Incorporated in Delaware, Intel ranked No. 45 in the 2020 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue for nearly a decade, from 2007 to 2016 fiscal years.
Intel supplies microprocessors for computer system manufacturers such as Acer, Lenovo, HP, and Dell. Intel also manufactures motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing.
Main products:
Central processing units
Microprocessors
Integrated graphics processing units (iGPU)
Systems-on-chip (SoCs)
Motherboard chipsets
Network interface controllers
Modems
Solid state drives
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Chipsets
Flash memory
Vehicle automation sensors
Qualcomm
Established time | 1985 |
Headquarters | San Diego, California, U.S |
Company website | qualcomm.com |
Qualcomm is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It creates semiconductors, software, and services related to wireless technology. It owns patents critical to the 5G, 4G, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA and WCDMA mobile communications standards.
Over the years, Qualcomm has expanded into selling semiconductor products in a predominantly fabless manufacturing model. It also developed semiconductor components or software for vehicles, watches, laptops, wi-fi, smartphones, and other devices.
Main products:
CDMA/WCDMA chipsets, Snapdragon, BREW, OmniTRACS, MediaFLO, QChat, mirasol displays, uiOne, Gobi, Qizx, CPU
Hisilicon
Established time | 1991 |
Headquarters | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China |
Company website | www.hisilicon.com/en |
HiSilicon is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Shenzhen, Guangdong and wholly owned by Huawei. HiSilicon purchases licenses for CPU designs from ARM Holdings, including the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, ARM Cortex-M3, ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore, ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore, ARM Cortex-A53, ARM Cortex-A57 and also for their Mali graphics cores. HiSilicon has also purchased licenses from Vivante Corporation for their GC4000 graphics core.
HiSilicon is reputed to be the largest domestic designer of integrated circuits in China. In 2020, the U.S. instituted rules that require American firms providing certain equipment to HiSilicon or non-American firms who use American technologies that supply HiSilicon to have licenses and Huawei announced it will stop producing its Kirin chipset from 15 September 2020, onwards. HiSilicon has since been overtaken by Chinese rival UNISOC in terms of mobile processor market share.
Main products: SoCs
Mediatek
Established time | 1997-5-28 |
Headquarters | Hsinchu, Taiwan |
Company website | www.mediatek.com |
MediaTek Inc. is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that provides chips for wireless communications, high-definition television, handheld mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers, navigation systems, consumer multimedia products and digital subscriber line services as well as optical disc drives.
Headquartered in Hsinchu, the company has 25 offices worldwide and was the third-largest fabless chip designer worldwide in 2016. Mediatek was founded in 1997. The company also provides its customers with reference designs. MediaTek became the biggest smartphone chipset vendor with 31% market share in Q3 2020. MediaTek’s strong performance in regions like China and India helped it become the biggest smartphone chipset vendor.
Main products:
Central processing units
Graphics processing unit
Chipsets
Microprocessors
Systems-on-chip (SoCs)
Motherboard chipsets
Network interface controllers
Digital signal processors
Digital light processors
Integrated circuits
Embedded processors
Drivers
NVIDIA
Established time | 1993-4-5 |
Headquarters | Santa Clara, California, U.S |
Company website | nvidia.com |
Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational technology company. It is a software and fabless company which designs graphics processing units (GPUs), application programming interface (APIs) for data science and high-performance computing as well as system on a chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market.
Nvidia is a global leader in artificial intelligence hardware and software.Its professional line of GPUs are used in workstations for applications in such fields as architecture, engineering and construction, media and entertainment, automotive, scientific research, and manufacturing design.
Main products:
Graphics processing units (including with ray-tracing capability in Nvidia RTX line)
Central processing units
Chipsets
Drivers
Collaborative software
Tablet computers
TV accessories
GPU-chips for laptops
Data processing units
Broadcom
Established time | 1961 |
Headquarters | San Jose, California, U.S |
Company website | broadcom.com |
Broadcom Inc. is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom’s product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, and storage and industrial markets.
Main products:
Semiconductor and infrastructure software products
TI
Established time | 1930 |
Headquarters | Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
Company website | ti.com |
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally. It is one of the top 10 semiconductor companies worldwide based on sales volume.
The company’s focus is on developing analog chips and embedded processors, which account for more than 80% of its revenue. TI also produces TI digital light processing technology and education technology products including calculators, microcontrollers, and multi-core processors. The company holds 45,000 patents worldwide as of 2016.
Main products:
Analog electronics
Calculators
Digital signal processors
Digital light processors
Integrated circuits
Embedded processors
AMD
Established time | 1969-5-1 |
Headquarters | Santa Clara, California, U.S |
Company website | amd.com/en |
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. While it initially manufactured its own processors, the company later outsourced its manufacturing, a practice known as going fabless, after GlobalFoundries was spun off in 2009.
AMD’s main products include microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors, graphics processors, and FPGA for servers, workstations, personal computers, and embedded system applications.
Main products:
Central processing units
Graphics processing unit
Chipsets
Microprocessors
Systems-on-chip (SoCs)
Motherboard chipsets
Network interface controllers
Embedded processors
Solid-state drives
Drivers
TV accessories
ST
Established time | 1987 |
Headquarters | Plan-les-Ouates,Geneva,Switzerland |
Company website | www.st.com |
STMicroelectronics N.V. commonly referred as ST or STMicro is a Dutch multinational corporation and technology company of French-Italian origin headquartered in Plan-les-Ouates near Geneva, Switzerland and listed on the French stock market.
ST is the largest European semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. The company resulted from the merger of two government-owned semiconductor companies in 1987: Thomson Semiconducteurs of France and SGS Microelettronica of Italy.
Main products:
Integrated circuits for specific applications, memory (including EEPROM), microcontrollers, microprocessors,transistors, smartcards
NXP
Established time | 2006 |
Headquarters | High Tech Campus, Eindhoven, Netherlands |
Company website | nxp.com |
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP) is a Dutch semiconductor designer and manufacturer with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The company employs approximately 31,000 people in more than 30 countries. NXP reported revenue of $11.06 billion in 2021.
Main products: Integrated Circuits
