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Semiconductor top 20 get a shakeup
THE TOP 20 semiconductor companies have gone through a bit of a shakeup according to new numbers put out by IC Insights, which blames the credit crunch and inventory issues for most of the changes.
In a summary of IC Insights' May Update to The McClean Report, the market research house reckons only three chipmakers managed to cling to their 2008 spots, as all the others got tossed around like tumbleweeds in a storm.
Unsurprisingly Intel managed to retain the number one spot, while Samsung held on to second place. Fujitsu also retained its ranking at number 17.
Texas Instruments was knocked off its perch to fourth position by Toshiba which climbed to third, whilst fabless IC supplier Qualcomm jumped from eighth in 2008 to sixth this past quarter. Another IC supplier, MediaTek, managed to shoot up five spots to scrape in at number 20, with a sales increase of 16 per cent over Q408. This, says IC Insights, is thanks to the "stay-at-home-economy" (see unemployed economy) driving digital TV IC sales through the roof.
AMD managed to nudge itself up by three positions, taking ninth position in the first quarter, whilst rival Nvidia dropped out of the top 20 altogether, coming in at the 22nd position.
Global Foundries rival, TSMC, dropped six places to tenth after a 57 per cent slump in sales between Q308 and Q109, but IC Insights reckons the damage is temporary, predicting a whopping 89 per cent sequential increase to $2.2 billion in sales for TSMC by next quarter. µ
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NVDA Q109 (Apr09) revenue: 664m
Charlie-the-fat-man indeed looks nothing like Sylvie...or anyone else that isn't a serial sex offender for that matter. See for yourself...THERE HE IS...crying cos his white van just got ticketed outside a school!
She told it and I saw the video. Charlie the-fat-man looks different than Sylvia muffin-buffin-hot-chick. You maggots!
It seems the word Nvidia can't be brought up in an article these days on the inq site without a dozen nfanbois ranting about charlie, and you know its getting worse when they neglect to read the author, in this case "By Sylvie Barak".
MediaTek has come out of absolutely nowhere about 6-7 years ago to contend for some very high volume business against Broadcom. If I were Broadcom, I'd be going nuts right now considering how far they've come. Wireless, DTV, you name it MTK has got it.
Watch them in the next few years, you'll be surprised.
If it was paid off by AMD, y would see Intel so high, maybe u just cant admitt that nvidia is failing, nvidiot fanboy
I have no doubt that, because CPUs are useless and GPUs are amazing, that nVidia will be back at number 1 within 3 years !!!
Just when I think I've got away, Charlie reaches out and pulls me back in with his endless stream of anti-nVidian vitriol
What, NV not on the list? Clearly this metric company is owned by Charlie. I mean really, how could this be true?
Where are the fanboys now?
...YOU GOT WHAT YOU DESERVED :~)