IC insight Top 10 semiconductor research and development expenditures (including semiconductor manufacturers and pure IC design company)
According to the latest report, Intel's research and development spending increased only 3% in 2017, down from an average annual growth rate of 8% since 2001. However, Intel's R & D expenditure exceeds the following four companies - Qualcomm (Qualcomm) Broadcom, Samsung and Toshiba.
Over the past two decades, Intel's R & D and sales have risen sharply as the cost of new IC technologies continues to rise, with R & D spending accounting for 21.2% of sales in 2017, down from 24.0% in 2015 Compared with 16.4% in 2010, 14.5% in 2005, 16.0% in 2000 and only 9.3% in 1995.
Qualcomm, the largest pure IC designer in the industry, ranked second in research and development spending and for the first time since 2012. Qualcomm's semiconductors-related R & D spending dropped 4% in 2017, Year drop of 7%, closely tied to third place Broadcom and fourth place Samsung, which rose 4% and 19% respectively.
Despite a 19% increase in Samsung's R & D spending in 2017, Samsung has the lowest R & D spending among the top 10 companies, with R & D spending accounting for only 5.2% of sales last year. Samsung's revenue growth for semiconductors in 2017 49%, mainly driven by the strong growth of DRAM and NAND flash memory, but its R & D sales accounted for more than a percentage point drop from 6.5% in 2016.
In 2017, Micron's sales also surged 77%, but its R & D spending increased 8%, research and development accounted for 7.5%, compared with 12.5% in 2016. Similarly, sales of SK Hynix increased in 2017 79%, while its R & D expenditure increased by 14% in 2017, which resulted in a 6.5% R & D share and 10.2% in 2016.
Toshiba, which is ranked fifth, and TSMC, which is ranked sixth, enjoyed almost the same R & D expenditures in 2017. Toshiba's share of R & D spending dropped 7%, while TSMC posted the largest increase in R & D expenditure among the top ten One of the vendors is up 20% in 2017 as the company spells out new process technology with competitors such as Samsung and GlobalFoundries, whose sales have risen 9% this year to $ 32.2 billion.
Top 10 also includes MediaTek, Micron and Nvidia, which rose from No. 11 in 2016 to No. 9 in NXP and SK Hynix in the rankings for 2017. Overall, Top 10 semiconductor research and development spending increased by an average of 6% in 2017, 4% above R & D expense growth for the entire semiconductor industry. In 2017, Top10 spent a total of 35.9 billion, more than the other semiconductor companies' total of $ 23 billion expenditure.
In addition, a total of 18 semiconductor suppliers invested more than $ 1 billion in research and development expenses in 2017. The other eight manufacturers are NXP, TI, ST, AMD, Renesas, Sony, ADI and GlobalFoundries respectively.