The world's top ten semiconductors, Nvidia's first flight to MediaTek

Market research agency IHS Markit pointed out that Nvidia's revenue for the first time squeezed into the top ten global semiconductor suppliers last year, and was the second non-factory semiconductor factory outside Qualcomm.

Len Jelinek, Chief Technology Analyst at IHS Markit, said that Nvidia’s revenue last year reached US$8.57 billion, which is enough to leave MediaTek and become the world’s tenth largest semiconductor factory.

In the history of pure factory without fabless only Qualcomm, Nvidia and MediaTek have entered the top ten in their annual revenue. Among them, Qualcomm has made a name for itself for the first time in 2007, and MediaTek is in 2014. , 2016 scored twice.

Overall, global semiconductor revenue grew by 21.7% in 2017, a record high. The annual growth rate was also the strongest in 14 years. It was mainly driven by memory. Its output value soared by 60.8% last year, and it grew 9.9% according to the other non-memory groups. Only half of the average is less than.

Last year, Samsung relied on memory to pull Intel into disqualification as the leading semiconductor company in the world. However, IHS Markit believes that the price of memory will fluctuate greatly. If the price declines, Samsung may soon be in the top spot.