Semiconductors

The following is a table of the top semiconductor vendor companies in the world (by millions of dollars of sales)

		2006		2005		2004		2003		2002		2001		2000		1999		1998
Company	Headquarters	Rank	Sales ($M)	Rank	Sales ($M)	Rank	Sales ($M)	Rank	Sales ($M)	Rank	Sales ($M)	Rank	Sales ($M)	Rank	Sales ($M)	Rank	Sales ($M)	Rank	Sales ($M)
Intel	U.S.	1	31,359	1	35,395	1	31,430	1	27,030	1	24,084	1	23,850	1	30,400	1	25,810	1	22,784
Samsung	South Korea	2	19,207	2	17,830	2	15,830	2	10,400	2	8,720	4	5,814	4	10,592	4	7,095	6	4,743
Texas Instruments (TI)	U.S.	3	12,832	3	11,300	3	10,700	3	8,250	3	6,650	5	6,100	5	9,200	4	7,095	5	5,820
Toshiba	Japan	4	10,166	4	9,116	7	8,531	5	7,355	5	4,823	2	6,781	2	11,388	3	7,594	4	5,913
STMicroelectronics	Europe	5	9,931	5	8,870	6	8,756	6	7,238	4	5,605	3	6,359	6	7,910	8	5,080	9	4,199
TSMC*	Taiwan	6	9,715	8	8,217	8	7,648	8	5,855	6	4,655
Renesas (formerly Hitachi Semiconductor)	Japan	7	8,221	7	8,266	5	9,000	4	7,970	10	3,575	7	5,037	8	7,286	7	5,521	7	4,668
AMD (with Spansion before 2004)	U.S.	8	7,471	16	3,936	22	2,659	12	3,940	15	2,697	12	3,891	15	4,644
Hynix (formerly Hynudai Electronics)	South Korea	9	7,365	11	5,599	15	4,648	20	2,516	17	2,544	18	2,450	11	6,400
NXP (formerly Philips Semiconductor)	Europe	10	6,221	10	5,646	10	5,692	11	4,512	12	3,482	10	4,235	12	5,837	9	5,065	8	4,448
Freescale (formerly Motorola Semiconductor)	U.S.	11	6,059	12	5,598	11	5,519	10	4,654	9	4,335	8	4,828	7	7,875	6	6,425	3	7,088
NEC	Japan	12	5,696	13	5,593	9	6,469	9	5,603	8	4,450	6	5,309	3	10,900	2	9,216	2	8,227
Qimonda	Europe	13	5,549
Micron	U.S.	14	5,290	14	4,970	14	4,652	15	3,575	14	2,845	19	2,411	10	6,448
Infineon	Europe	15	5,195	6	8,297	4	9,180	7	7,109	7	4,481	9	4,558	9	6,853	10	5,010	10	3,909
Sony	Japan	16	4,875	9	5,845	12	5,070	13	3,933	18	2,520	20	2,100	19	3,300
Qualcomm**	U.S.	17	4,466	18	3,457	20	3,224	22	2,466	21	1,942
Matsushita	Japan	18	4,124	15	4,070	13	4,725	14	3,675	19	2,320	14	3,176	18	4,150
Broadcom**	U.S.	19	3,657	23	2,643	24	2,377	28	1,610
Sharp	Japan	20	3,476	21	2,850	18	3,355	17	3,035			22	1,858	22	2,550
Fujitsu	Japan			19	3,370	17	3,535	18	2,955	13	2,980	15	3,084	16	4,470
UMC*	Taiwan			20	3,259	16	3,900	19	2,740	20	1,950
Elpida	Japan	23	3,354	28	1,953	31	1,738	50	760
IBM	U.S.	24	3,151	17	3,495	19	3,230	16	3,115	11	3,500	11	3,898	17	4,329
Rohm	Japan	25	2,964	22	2,813	21	2,818	21	2,490
Spansion	U.S.	26	2,617	29	1,912	25	2,342
Analog Devices (ADI)	U.S.	27	2,599	24	2,370	23	2,570	24	2,100	23	1,797	21	1,897	21	2,571
Nvidia**	U.S.	28	2,475	25	2,353	28	1,975	26	1,820	22	1,915
Sandisk**	U.S.			26	2,067	37	1,603	42	982
National	U.S.			27	1,962	27	2,048	29	1,560			24	1,626	25	2,301
Avago**	U.S.			30	1,825	29	1,950
ATI**	Canada			31	1,810	34	1,670
Oki	Japan			32	1,775	32	1,720	30	1,360
Sanyo	Japan			33	1,715	26	2,150	23	2,245	24	1,775	17	2,675	20	3,260
Atmel	U.S.			34	1,676	36	1,650	31	1,331
Maxim	U.S.			35	1,670	35	1,662	35	1,229
Agere	U.S.			36	1,669	30	1,870	25	1,920	25	1,700	16	3,051	13	4,875
Xilinx**	U.S.			37	1,645	38	1,585	32	1,304
Marvell**	U.S.			38	1,631	47	1,190	49	780
Powerchip	Taiwan			39	1,603	33	1,716	56	666
Nanya	Taiwan			40	1,546	45	1,211	48	825
MediaTek**	Taiwan			41	1,444	48	1,172	39	1,104
Mitsubishi	Japan			42	1,345	40	1,360	36	1,155	16	2,640	13	3,473	14	4,740
LSI Logic	U.S.			43	1,321	44	1,248	34	1,270			25	1,597	23	2,448
Fairchild	U.S.			44	1,310	39	1,458	33	1,273
ON Semi	U.S.			45	1,261	43	1,267	40	1,065
SMIC*	China			46	1,172	53	975
Vishay	U.S.			47	1,142	46	1,204
Chartered*	Singapore			48	1,132	50	1,103	53	728
Altera**	U.S.			49	1,124	52	1,016	47	827
IR	U.S.			50	1,115	49	1,125	41	1,050
Agilent	U.S.					27	2,011	27	1,635			23	1,671	24	2,400
Seiko Epson	Japan					39	1,325	37	1,150
ProMOS	Taiwan					40	1,283	52	729
MagnaChip*	South Korea					49	1,085	45	831

* foundry
** fabless