Intel hung on to its No.1 slot in Q1 although the gap with Samsung narrowed, reports IC Insights in its May Update to the 2021 McClean Report.
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The top-15 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O S D–optoelectronic, sensor, and discrete) sales ranking for 1Q21 is shown in Figure 1. It includes eight suppliers headquartered in the U.S., two each in South Korea, Taiwan and Europe, and one in Japan.
The ranking includes six fabless companies (Qualcomm, Broadcom, Nvidia, MediaTek, AMD, and Apple) and one pure-play foundry (TSMC).
If pure-play foundry TSMC was excluded from the ranking, Europe-based IDM NXP ($2,503 million in sales) would have been ranked 15th in the 1Q21 listing.