No. 1: Qualcomm (US). # 2: Avagor (Singapore). No. 3: Mediatek (center). No. 4 Nvidia (US). No. 7: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (middle). These should be the most well-known chip brands at present. Moreover, South Korea's Samsung is also very strong, China's SMIC, Japan's Kyushu Island, Germany's Dresden and so on. In fact, there are low-end duv lithography machines can manufacture chips, and really can produce high-end chips, such as high-end mobile phones and computer chips, only TSMC, Samsung, Intel, because only these few have euv high-end lithography machines.
There are many countries that can produce chips such as: the United States (Qualcomm), Singapore (Avago), China (Mediatek, TSMC), South Korea (Samsung), Japan (Toshiba) and other countries can manufacture chips.
But making chips and designing them are two very different things. Our country's TSMC MediateK is foundry, that is, Foundry. We use other people's technology and materials to provide manpower and venues, and there are no high technical barriers, so we will be stuck.
There are many countries that can produce chips, but the strength of the chip function and the integrity of the chip industry chain as well as the strength of independent research and development capabilities are different.
Major chip producers, including the United States, China, South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, etc.
Among them, Qualcomm and Intel are leaders in the global chip industry and representatives of the most advanced chip technology. South Korea's late momentum is also very fierce, Samsung after just a few decades of development has become the global chip industry leader, its operating income after the United States, ranked second in the world. China's Taiwan region also has a high market share, but is located at the lower end of the entire industrial chain.