Chip companies are divided into two categories, one is a fabless chip company, that is, chip design and chip manufacturing shoulder to shoulder, and the other is a fabless chip company that only designs chips and outsources chip manufacturing. Put these two categories together, and the strongest countries are across the Pacific Ocean from us.
We can take a look at the global chip (IC) market ranking in 2018. The brown bar chart below shows fabless chip market share, blue shows fabless chip market share, and green bar charts show the overall chip market share.
From the data point of view, the United States fabless chip global market share of 68%, think about Qualcomm, AMD, Broadcom, Texas Instruments these giants, you can understand the weight of this figure, the share of fabs chip is 46%, basically by Intel, Micron two monopolies, the total share of the two is 52%, basically the second South Korea twice.
China ranked fifth in the world, similar to Intel will design, manufacturing a shoulder to shoulder the mainland enterprises are basically a blank (share of less than 1%), the total share of 3%.
In fact, it is easy to understand that the United States in the field of chip design and manufacturing, crystal transistors, integrated circuits, CMOS manufacturing processes, and even the Internet, operating systems and other software parts were invented by Americans.
Because information technology pays attention to iterative development, the United States has original IP, and has established a strong hardware and software ecosystem after many iterations. As a simple example, the reduced instruction set (RISC) and complex instruction set (CISC) of the CPU are both monopolized by the United States, and the ecosystem established by the two instruction sets makes Japan in the 1980s and South Korea now unable to enter the CPU field.
To catch up in the chip field, China not only needs time, but also needs education, scientific research and other systems to make adjustments and reforms.
No. 1 Qualcomm (US) No. 2 Avago (Singapore) No. 3 Mediatek (Taiwan, China) No. 4 NVIDIA (US) No. 7 TSMC (China)
# 1 Qualcomm (USA)
This should be one of the most well-known chip brands at present. The famous Snapdragon series mobile phone processor is a Qualcomm product, which is basically used by Xiaomi, letV, Huawei and other companies.
# 2 Avagor (Singapore)
Based in Singapore, the company designs, develops and supplies a wide range of analog semiconductor equipment to customers worldwide, mainly providing composite III-V semiconductor products.
No. 3 Mediatek (Taiwan, China)
Mediatek, a chip technology company based in Taiwan, currently uses its processors in many mid - and low-end smartphones.
No. 4 Nvidia (US)
NVIDIA (full name NVIDIA Corporation, NASDAQ: NVDA, official Chinese name NVIDIA), founded in January 1993, is a Fabless IC semiconductor company focused on designing intelligent core chipsets. Nvidia is a global leader in graphics technology and digital media processors. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, NVIDIA has approximately 5,700 employees in more than 20 countries and regions.
NVIDIA is best known for its GeForce series of graphics cards for gaming, Quadro series of graphics cards for professional workstations, and nForce chipset series for computer motherboards. On July 31, 2015, Nvidia announced a recall of tablets sold between June 2014 and June 2015 due to overheating batteries.
No.7 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (China)
Taiwan Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Co., LTD., referred to as TSMC, is a semiconductor manufacturing company. Founded in 1987, it is the world's first professional integrated circuit manufacturing service (foundry) company, with its headquarters and main factory located in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan.
The strongest chipmakers are now in Asia, with TSMC, SMIC, Spreadtrum, Samsung, SONY and so on