AMD moves up in semiconductor league table

SALES OF microprocessors will be flat this year, DRAM and NAND are down, and phones ain't what they used to be, said IDC.

But the market research firm predicts better times ahead in 2007, said Gopal Chauhan, worldwide semi programme manager at IDC.

Oversupply in the first half of 2007 has led to a situation where he predicts growth will be 4.8 per cent this year, compared to 8.6 per cent last year. He's predicting growth of 8.1 per cent for 2008 because of increased demand in home electronics and from emerging markets.

IDC issued its table for the top 10 vendors in 2006, and said Intel, Samsung and TI retaining their positions. AMD moved from number 10 to number eight in 2006.

Here's the IDC table below - worldwide semiconductor revenues in millions of dollars. Check out Hynix and AMD - the latter on a staggering 92 per cent growth rate. We know it won't be looking that way in 2007. µ

2005	2006	Vendor	2006	2005	Change	Share
1	1	Intel	31,576	33,340	-5.3%	12.7%
2	2	Samsung	19,605	18,504	6%	7.9%
3	3	TI	13,100	11,300	15.9%	5.3%
5	4	ST Micro	9,854	8,807	11.9%	4%
4	5	Toshiba	9,262	8,972	3.2%	3.7%
6	6	Renesas	7,913	8,195	-3.4%	3.2%
9	7	Hynix	7,866	5,516	42.6%	3.2%
10	8	AMD	7,586	3,952	92%	3.1%
8	9	Freescale	6,049	5,595	8.1%	2.4%
7	10	NXP	5,874	5,959	-1.4%	2.4%
		The Others	129,072	117,535	9.8%	52.1%
		Total	247,757	227,675	8.8%	100%