June 25, 2007 -- FSA issued its CYQ1 2007 Global Fabless Fundings & Financials Report outlining key statistics for industry growth in the first quarter of 2007, including:
- Fabless industry revenue totaled $11.7 billion, which equated to 19 percent of the semiconductor sales total of $61.0 billion.
- Worldwide fabless industry revenue fell eight percent quarter-over-quarter and 0.6 percent year-over-year.
- Top ten fabless companies by first quarter revenue, which combined for $6.5 billion, or 55 percent of total revenue:
- QUALCOMM (QCT Division) [NASDAQ: QCOM]: $1.3B
- Broadcom [NASDAQ: BRCM]: $901M
- NVIDIA Corporation [NASDAQ: NVDA]: $844M
- SanDisk Corporation [NASDAQ: SNDK]: $786M
- Marvell Technology Group Ltd [NASDAQ: MRVL]: $635M
- LSI Logic [NYSE: LSI]: $465M
- MediaTek Incorporation [TSEC: 2454]: $450M
- Xilinx, Inc. [NASDAQ: XLNX]: $443M
- Avago Technologies [Private]: $386M
- Altera [NASDAQ: ALTR]: $305M
- 39 fabless companies raised $500.8 million, a 32 percent quarter-over-quarter dollar amount increase and a 18 percent increase in the number of deals closed.
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