Chip manufacturers

The semiconductor is located between the conductor and the insulator and is commonly used for the production of electronic chips, computing components, and devices. Semiconductor companies or better to say chip manufacturing service providers in the world are contributing to immense growth and driving innovation for the semiconductor industry. Even with the many issues caused by COVID-19, semiconductor companies are expected to have a compound annual growth rate of at least 4-5% per year by 2027. This article lists the top semiconductor companies or you can say chip manufacturers in 2021. 

Broadcom, Inc.

Broadcom is a global technology company, which designs, develops, and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. It operates through the following segments: Semiconductor Solutions and Infrastructure Software. The Semiconductor Solutions segment manages the movement of data in the data center, telecom, enterprise, and embedded networking applications. The Infrastructure Software segment provides a portfolio of mainframe, enterprise, and storage area networking solutions. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. 

ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd.

ASE Technology engages in the provision of semiconductor manufacturing services. It develops and offers complete turnkey solutions in IC (Integrated Circuit) packaging, design and production of interconnect materials, front-end engineering testing, wafer probing and final testing, as well as electronic manufacturing services. The company was founded on April 30, 2018, and is headquartered in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.

Infineon Technologies

Infineon Technologies AG designs and produces a range of semiconductors and operates in a variety of segments, including automotive, industrial power control, power and sensor systems, and digital security solutions. Its products are often used in areas such as speech recognition, gesture control, active safety systems, and renewable energy sources.

STMicroelectronics

STMicroelectronics NV manufactures, develops, and distributes products that offer standard commodity parts, application-specific integrated Chip manufacturers circuits, full and semi-customized devices for analog, digital, and mixed-signal applications. The company also produces multimedia products, power applications, and sensors.

Intel Inc

Intel is a global computer chip supplier to leading technology companies such as Apple, Lenovo, HP, and Dell. Intel’s revenue surpassed US$71.9 billion last year making it one of the top semiconductor companies in the world by revenue in 2020.

SK Hynix

SK Hynix is one of the largest South Korean semiconductor manufacturers in the world and 3rd overall on the list of the top 10 largest semiconductor companies in the world. The company is known mainly as a semiconductor supplier of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips and flash memory chips. SK Hynix chips are mainly used by Apple, including the iPhone’s popular A9 chipset that uses SK Hynix’s DRAM.

Toshiba 

Toshiba is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Toshiba’s semiconductor segment is known for manufacturing and supplying semiconductor products, memory storage, and social infrastructure. Toshiba last year brought in annual revenues of US$12.3 billion making it one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world by revenue.

NXP Semiconductors

NXP Semiconductors NV is a holding company, which engages in the provision of semiconductor solutions. It focuses on high-performance mixed-signal (HMPS), which delivers high-performance mixed-signal solutions to its customers to satisfy their system and subsystems' needs across the application areas such as automotive, identification, mobile, consumer, computing, wireless infrastructure, lighting and industrial, and software solutions for mobile phones. Its products include Arm Processors, Arm MCUs, and Power Architecture. The company was founded on August 2, 2006, and is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Micron Technology

Micron Technology is one of the biggest names in the semiconductor industry. The tech company designs and manufactures many different types of memory chips and semiconductors for a wide range of applications, including NAND memory flash, DRAM for primary system memory, and 3D XPoint.

Qualcomm 

Qualcomm is a leading semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, California, and is known for designing and manufacturing wireless telecommunications products and services. Qualcomm sells its semiconductor products in a predominantly fabless manufacturing model and also develops semiconductor products for vehicles, watches, laptops, wi-fi, smartphones, and other devices.