Top 10 chip companies in the world
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1. Intel
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Founded in 1968.
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Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA
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Intel is the world's most famous maker of computers and central processing units. It was founded in 1968 and introduced microprocessors in 1971. For the next 50 years, it has been a world leader in microprocessors, chipsets, motherboards, systems and software, and was ranked 17th among the World's top 500 brands in 2018.
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2. Samsung
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Founded in 1938.
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Samsung is a famous multinational company in South Korea and also ranks among the top in the chip field. As the representative of South Korean industry, Samsung is involved in mobile phones, computers and various electronic semiconductors. It is also one of the world's top 500 companies.
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3. Nvidia
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Founded in 1993
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Location: Santa Clara, California
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The famous computer graphics card creator, important involved in the creation of display chips and motherboard chipsets, NVIDIA has gradually opened the gap with Wei Chao AMD in the field of graphics chips, and is also one of the world's top 500 brands.
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4. Qualcomm Inc
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Founded in 1985
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Location: San Diego, California, USA
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Qualcomm is a world-renowned manufacturer of mobile phone chips, and is mainly engaged in the research and development of wireless communication technology and chips. Its Snapdragon processor covers Android mobile devices around the world and is highly competitive in the 5G space.
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5. Super power
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Founded in 1969
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Location: Sunnyvale, California, USA
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AMD is also a well-known graphics card creator, involving cpus, graphics cards, motherboard computer hardware equipment and other fields, occupying the computer graphics field and most of the NVIDIA market, but it seems to have declined in recent years.
. Micron
Founded in 1978.
Location: Idaho, northwestern United States
Micron is also one of the world's top 10 chip companies and one of the world's largest creators of semiconductor memory and imaging products, with more than 26,000 employees worldwide and marketing offices in Beijing and Shenzhen, China.
7. Huawei HiSilicon
Founded in 2004
Location: Longgang, Shenzhen
As Huawei's chip research center, hisilicon is mainly involved in chips in wireless networks, fixed networks, digital media and other fields, and has taken the lead in the world in the field of 5G, and its enterprise ranking has been rising.
8. Mediatek
Established in 1997
Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan, China
As a Taiwan integrated circuit designer and creator, Mediatek is mainly involved in wireless communication, digital multimedia and other technical fields, and also occupies a certain market in the field of mobile phone chips. In addition, Mediatek will set up a lab with Tencent.
9.海力士
Founded in 1983
Location: South Korea
The former Hyundai Memory of Korea changed its name to Hynix in 2001 and changed its name to SK Hynix after it was acquired by SK. It is the world's third largest creator of dynamic random access memory and one of the world's top 500 companies.
10.台积电
Founded in 1987
Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan, China
Founded in 1987, TSMC is the world's first professional integrated circuit creation service company. Although it is not engaged in chip design, it has become one of the most valuable semiconductor companies in the market.
The world's most advanced chip in 2021 is Mediatek's 4-nanometer process Tianguet 9000.
Mediatek has released a new generation of Guet 9000 chips that will be supported on a 4nm process, and the Guet 9000 will likely be the first 4nm process SOC to be adopted and brought to market, which is the most advanced chip capable of mass production in 2021. There is also a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 gen1 \
A generation of chips and a generation of gods, we all know that Qualcomm's chips are still the top existence in the Android mobile phone camp, but this year's Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 is also very serious for the heat of the flagship models of major mobile phone manufacturers in China, and there is a feeling of the Snapdragon 820 \"fire dragon\" era. But it has to be said that Snapdragon 888 still puts the user experience in the first place, the GPU compared to the previous generation Snapdragon 865 increased by 35%, while the Adreno GPU power consumption compared to the previous generation reduced by 20%, such energy efficiency improvement can better stimulate the maximum performance and use experience of Snapdragon 888. In addition, Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 also uses a new generation of AI engine (sixth generation AI engine). The architecture of the core Hexagon780 processor has greatly changed compared with the past, and the efficiency has been greatly improved.