05 years, the world's top 20 semiconductor manufacturers released the fate of different

Released in 2005 20 of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer IC Insights on top of market research. Due to the overall weakness of the semiconductor industry in 2005, the performance of major manufacturers are also different. Compared with 2004, in the latest rankings, the largest change in Japanese semiconductor manufacturers.

Renesas technology, which dropped from fifth to seventh place, NEC dropped from the ninth place to the thirteenth place, Fujitsu also dropped from the fourteenth to the sixteenth place. Compared with 2004, NEC electronics sales fell 11%, due to the growing loss of NEC electronics company president and CEO Kaoru Tosaka resigned in October.

However, Japanese semiconductor manufacturers are winners, such as Toshiba's ranking from seventh to fourth, a 11% increase in sales. And SONY is the 20 largest semiconductor manufacturers in the star, to achieve the highest growth rate of 19%, the market ranking from the twelfth to the ninth. IC Insights data show that in 2005 the overall growth of only 6% of the top semiconductor manufacturers, only the top 10 semiconductor manufacturers SONY, Intel, Samsung and Toshiba have more than 7% growth. Due to the overall market downturn, the top 20 this year to enter the threshold of $3 billion, down from $3 billion 200 million in 2004.

SONY chip sales growth thanks to the needs of video games, MP3 players, digital TV and other consumer electronics products. IC Insights added that in 2005 SONY's internal use of semiconductors grew by 50%. With Japanese semiconductor manufacturers changing fortune compared to the list of U.S. semiconductor manufacturers showed more stable, in addition to IBM microelectronics, have achieved a positive growth of more than 5%. Qualcomm which is the only one on the list of pure IC design company (fabless), from twentieth in 2004 rose to eighteenth, an increase of more than 2004 of 8%.

The performance of the three major semiconductor manufacturers in Europe are unsatisfactory. PHILPS's performance was slightly better, with an increase of 4%, with the growth of STMicroelectronics (ST) by only $1%. 2004 because of the DRAM market and the scenery of Infineon Technologies in the same year by the DRAM business support tired, sales fell by 8%, the market ranking also fell from the fourth place to the sixth.