Gartner: Intel is still No. 1

Although revenue declined by 12% in 2006, Intel is still the largest semiconductor company in the world today, Gartner said.

The chip giant lost a lot of market share to rival AMD in the first three quarters of 2006, especially in the server chip segment. In addition, the price competition also caused a significant deficit in Intel's revenue.

However, Intel had a very successful fourth quarter with the release of two Core 2 Duo and Xeon 5100 products. Even Gartner predicted that this year, these key products will help Intel regain market share is lost. (In 2006, Intel held about 11.6% of the world semiconductor market share).

Source: AP South Korea giant Samsung Electronics stood firm in the runner-up position with 7.7% of market share and revenue growth of 9.8% compared with 2005. Samsung is DRAM, Flash NOR memory chip and CMOS image sensor chip. However, Samsung regressed significantly in the NAND Flash market when its market share fell below the 50% threshold.

Texas Instruments retained its No. 3 position with 4.6% market share and 18.4% revenue growth compared to 2005. Its flagship product is a high-performance analog chip (growing 33% of revenue). ) and 3G wireless chip (50% revenue growth).

Hynix Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies AG, both of which achieved the strongest growth rates in the Top 10. While Hynix's revenue increased by nearly 40%, Infineon also reached 28.4% for the first time, breaking its own record. self.

Intel's rival AMD has increased its market share in Dell's desktop, mobile and server family.

Globally, the world semiconductor market in 2006 achieved 262.7 billion USD revenue, up 10.2% compared to 2005.

Trong Cam