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Ranked: Largest Semiconductor Foundry Companies by Revenue

Published 2 hours ago on November 20, 2023
By Marcus Lu
Article/Editing:
Pallavi Rao
Graphics/Design:
Miranda Smith
This chart shows the largest semiconductor foundry companies by their percentage of global revenues in Q1 2023.

Ranked: Largest Semiconductor Foundry Companies by Revenue
They’re in our phones, cars, planes, and even fridges.

Semiconductor chips have become critical for the modern way of life, and
the biggest semiconductor foundry companies rake in billions of dollars
from widespread demand.

This chart shows the largest semiconductor foundry companies by their percentage of global revenues in Q1 2023, using data sourced from
Trendforce.

ℹ️ We highlight data for companies that only operate foundries
(fabrication plants) that manufacture chips for clients, also known as a “pure-play” foundries, as well as companies that design and manufacture their own chips, known as integrated device manufacturers. “Fabless” manufacturers that only design and don’t manufacture their own chips are
not included.
Semiconductor Foundry Companies by Revenue
At the top of the list and dwarfing every other company by revenue share
is TSMC which earned 60% (or nearly $17 billion) of the entire
industry’s revenue in Q1 2023.

Founded in 1987, TSMC is a pure-play foundry that has become Taiwan’s
largest company and manufactures products for a host of clients
including Apple, NVIDIA, and AMD.

Rank Company Country Revenue
(Q1 2023, USD)
1 TSMC 🇹🇼 Taiwan $16,735M
2 Samsung 🇰🇷 South Korea $3,446M
3 GlobalFoundries 🇺🇸 US $1,841M
4 UMC 🇹🇼 Taiwan $1,784M
5 SMIC 🇨🇳 China $1,462M
6 HuaHong Group 🇨🇳 China $845M
7 Tower Semiconductor 🇮🇱 Israel $356M
8 PSMC 🇹🇼 Taiwan $332M
9 VIS 🇹🇼 Taiwan $269M
10 DB Hitek 🇰🇷 South Korea $234M
Other $556M
Global Total $27,860M
Note: Revenue based on the following conversion rates: USD 1 = WON
1,276; USD 1 = NTD 30.4.
Well behind TSMC in foundry revenues is integrated device manufacturer
Samsung, the biggest company in South Korea, which made $3.4 billion
(12.4% of the industry’s revenue) from its semiconductor manufacturing business.

GlobalFoundries from the U.S., UMC from Taiwan and SMIC from China round
out the top five, with each taking home around 6% of industry’s revenue
share in Q1 2023. The former spun out from AMD’s manufacturing arm when
the company went fabless in 2009.

Industry concentration is apparent in semiconductors. For example, the
top 10 semiconductor foundry companies account for 98% of the entire industry’s revenue. Furthermore, 90% of the market is dominated by
companies in just three Asian countries: Taiwan, South Korea, and China.

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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/semiconductor-foundry-companies-ranked/

Ranked: Largest Semiconductor Foundry Companies by Revenue

Published 2 hours ago on November 20, 2023
By Marcus Lu
Article/Editing:
Pallavi Rao
Graphics/Design:
Miranda Smith
This chart shows the largest semiconductor foundry companies by their percentage of global revenues in Q1 2023.

Ranked: Largest Semiconductor Foundry Companies by Revenue
They’re in our phones, cars, planes, and even fridges.

Semiconductor chips have become critical for the modern way of life, and
the biggest semiconductor foundry companies rake in billions of dollars
from widespread demand.

This chart shows the largest semiconductor foundry companies by their percentage of global revenues in Q1 2023, using data sourced from
Trendforce.

ℹ️ We highlight data for companies that only operate foundries
(fabrication plants) that manufacture chips for clients, also known as a “pure-play” foundries, as well as companies that design and manufacture their own chips, known as integrated device manufacturers. “Fabless” manufacturers that only design and don’t manufacture their own chips are
not included.
Semiconductor Foundry Companies by Revenue
At the top of the list and dwarfing every other company by revenue share
is TSMC which earned 60% (or nearly $17 billion) of the entire
industry’s revenue in Q1 2023.

Founded in 1987, TSMC is a pure-play foundry that has become Taiwan’s
largest company and manufactures products for a host of clients
including Apple, NVIDIA, and AMD.

Rank Company Country Revenue
(Q1 2023, USD)
1 TSMC 🇹🇼 Taiwan $16,735M
2 Samsung 🇰🇷 South Korea $3,446M
3 GlobalFoundries 🇺🇸 US $1,841M
4 UMC 🇹🇼 Taiwan $1,784M
5 SMIC 🇨🇳 China $1,462M
6 HuaHong Group 🇨🇳 China $845M
7 Tower Semiconductor 🇮🇱 Israel $356M
8 PSMC 🇹🇼 Taiwan $332M
9 VIS 🇹🇼 Taiwan $269M
10 DB Hitek 🇰🇷 South Korea $234M
Other $556M
Global Total $27,860M
Note: Revenue based on the following conversion rates: USD 1 = WON
1,276; USD 1 = NTD 30.4.
Well behind TSMC in foundry revenues is integrated device manufacturer
Samsung, the biggest company in South Korea, which made $3.4 billion
(12.4% of the industry’s revenue) from its semiconductor manufacturing business.

GlobalFoundries from the U.S., UMC from Taiwan and SMIC from China round
out the top five, with each taking home around 6% of industry’s revenue
share in Q1 2023. The former spun out from AMD’s manufacturing arm when
the company went fabless in 2009.

Industry concentration is apparent in semiconductors. For example, the
top 10 semiconductor foundry companies account for 98% of the entire industry’s revenue. Furthermore, 90% of the market is dominated by
companies in just three Asian countries: Taiwan, South Korea, and China.

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We highlight data for companies that only operate foundries
(fabrication plants) that manufacture chips for clients, also known as a “pure-play” foundries, as well as companies that design and manufacture their own chips, known as integrated device manufacturers. “Fabless” manufacturers that only design and don’t manufacture their own chips are
not included.

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You can design your own IC chip and have it made. I did, a dynamic RAM
(memory) controller and refresher that prioritized read and write requests
from several devices in a color scanner. https://www.synopsys.com/glossary/what-is-custom-ic.html

I've also reverse-engineered an IC back to its schematic, by etching it down layer by layer and tracing the connections to the individual transistors and FETs. That was my training to work in the R&D lab of a semiconductor design company.

These are almost magic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array

Draw a schematic, compile it, store the result in a PROM, and on power-up
the PROM will configure the FPGA to be your circuit, until the power is
turned off. Changes require only another socketed PROM, the FPGA is
permanently soldered to the circuit board, waiting to become what it's told
to be.

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