All of the leading semiconductor suppliers in the top 2019 showed sales declines in the first quarter of 10, according to IHS Markit, on the back of the worst performance in the global chip market in the last 101,2 years. Revenue on it fell to $12,9 billion, which is 2018% less than in the same period in 2009. According to IHS statistics, this is the largest decline since the second quarter of XNUMX.
To a large extent, the downtrend in the first quarter of the year was set by memory chips, the supply of which decreased by 25%. If we exclude them from the calculation of the total revenue of the semiconductor market, then the fall would be 4,4% year on year. Among other negative factors, analysts noted an excessive increase in stocks and reduced demand from key end-users.
In light of the foregoing, it's no surprise that the largest drop in sales, down 34,6% year-over-year, came from Samsung, whose semiconductor business relies 84% ββon memory chips. Other memory-focused major chipmakers, SK Hynix (-26,3%) and Micron (-22,5%), also suffered.
The third-biggest drop in shipments after Samsung and SK Hynix was NVIDIA, down 23,7% year-on-year. The collapse by almost a quarter was facilitated by the instability of cryptocurrency rates and competition with AMD in the GPU market for data centers.
The best performance in the first quarter of 2019 was demonstrated by Intel, whose sales decreased by only 0,3%. The fact that memory chips account for less than 6% of its revenue helped it avoid a more negative result. This circumstance allowed Intel to maintain its leadership among semiconductor manufacturers, which it holds for the second quarter in a row after overtaking Samsung in the fourth quarter of 2018.
Source: 3dnews.ru