Analysts at IC Insights have released a report on the 2018 factoryless chip developer market. The analysis covers an overview of the 40 largest design divisions of chip manufacturers and the 50 largest factoryless semiconductor developers.
By 2018, European companies hold only 2% of the market for factoryless development. In 2010, Europe's share of this market was 4%. Since then, a number of European companies have been taken over by American chipmakers, and the Europeans have reduced their presence in the developer market. So, the British CSR, previously the second largest factoryless company in Europe, became the property of Qualcomm (in the first quarter of 2015). The German Lantiq (the third largest in Europe) was taken over by Intel in the second quarter of 2015. In Europe, the British Dialog and the Norwegian Nordic remained large - these are the only two companies from Europe included in the list of the 50 largest global chip developers in 2018.
From Japan, only one company entered the Top 50 - Megachips (sales growth in 2018 was 19% to $760 million). South Korea's only developer, Silicon Works, posted 17% sales growth and $718 million in revenue. Overall, the global factoryless developer market grew 2018% to $8 billion in 8,3. Of the 50 companies, 16 outperformed the global market. semiconductor market or more than 14%. Also, out of 50 companies, 21 developers showed growth in the range of 10-13%, and 5 companies reduced their revenue by double-digit percentages. The five developers - four Chinese (BitMain, ISSI, Allwinner and HiSilicon) and one American (NVIDIA) - increased revenue by more than 25% in a year.
The largest share of the market for factoryless developers is accounted for by companies with US registration. At the end of 2018, they own 68% of the market, which is 1% less than in 2010. At the same time, it must be remembered that Trump's tax reform forced a number of companies, such as Broadcom, to change their registration to the United States, which nominally increased the representation of Americans in the market for factoryless solutions.
Source: 3dnews.ru