South Korean companies’ IC sales surpass Japan for 1st time

January 31, 2012 — ON Semiconductor (ONNN), Qualcomm (QCOM), Skyworks (SWKS), LSI (LSI), and Intel (INTC) brought North American semiconductor companies a minor gain in semiconductor marketshare in 2011, keeping the North American companies in the majority worldwide (see the table), according to the data in the 2012 edition of The McClean Report from IC Insights.

Over the past three years, North American companies have held more than 50% marketshare.

Table. Worldwide IC sales by company headquarter location. The figures in the chart do not include foundry sales (to prevent double-counting marketshare) or optoelectronic, sensor, or discrete devices. SOURCE: IC Insights.

2011 rank Company headquarters location  2009 sales ($B) 2009 share (%) 2010 sales ($B) 2010 share (%) 2010/2009 % change 2011 sales ($B) 2011 share (%) 2011/2010
% change
1 North America 101.2 50.7 130.9 50.1 29 139.5 53.2 7
2 South Korea 27.8 13.9 42.6 16.3 53 42.2 16.1 -1
3 Japan 36.7 18.4 45.5 17.4 24 42 16 -8
4 Europe 16.6 8.3 19.9 7.6 20 18.4 7 -8
5 Taiwan 14.6 7.3 18.8 7.2 29 16 6.1 -15
6 China/other 2.8 1.4 3.7 1.4 31 4.2 1.6 15
  Total 199.7 100 261.3 100 31 262.2 100 0

Although South Korean companies, primarily Samsung and Hynix, continue to be greatly influenced by the fortunes of the memory market, they have gained more than two points of marketshare since 2009. In fact, the South Korean companies surpassed the Japanese companies in IC marketshare for the first time in 2011.

Taiwanese companies lost just over one point of marketshare in 2011 due to the extreme weakness of the DRAM market and the corresponding sales decline by that country’s memory suppliers (e.g., Powerchip, ProMOS, and Nanya).

While China continues to attract foreign IC production to its country (e.g., TSMC, Intel, and Samsung), its indigenous IC suppliers held only 1.6% of the worldwide IC market. The gain in China’s 2011 marketshare is primarily attributable to the success of its fabless IC suppliers like HiSilicon and Spreadtrum.

A thorough overview and specific details of IC sales by company, geographic region, and by product type are included in the 2012 McClean Report. View http://www.icinsights.com/services/mcclean-report/ for more information.

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