Gartner's Final Semiconductor Vendor Market Share Results Shows Industry Grew 23 Percent in 2004

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 23, 2005 — Despite persistent excess inventory concerns, the worldwide semiconductor industry delivered 23.4 percent growth in 2004, with revenue totaling $219.9 billion, according to final market share statistics by Gartner, Inc.

"The commodity memory business — dominated by DRAM and NAND flash — was the one device sector immune from soft supply conditions in 2004," said Jeremey Donovan, vice president for Gartner's worldwide semiconductor group. "In terms of vertical markets, wireless and digital consumer electronics were star performers once again."

Intel remained the No. 1 vendor based on worldwide semiconductor revenue (see Table 1) for the 13th consecutive year. Intel continued a highly visible push into new markets, most notably into digital cellular and wireless LAN integrated circuits.

Table 1
Final Top 10 Worldwide Semiconductor Vendors by Revenue Estimates
(Millions of U.S. Dollars)

2004 Rank	2003 Rank	Co.	2004 Rev enue	2004 Market Share (%)	2003 Rev enue	2003 Market Share (%)	2004-2003 Growth (%)
1	1	Intel	30,730	14.0	26,899	15.1	14.2
2	2	Sam sung Electr onics	16,276	7.4	10,502	5.9	55.0
3	4	Texas Instr uments	9,678	4.4	7,410	4.2	30.6
4	3	Rene sas Tech nology	9,001	4.1	7,936	4.5	13.4
5	7	Inf ineon Techno logies	8,945	4.1	6,864	3.9	30.3
6	6	ST Micro electr onics	8,761	4.0	7,180	4.0	22.0
7	5	Tosh iba	8,538	3.9	7,356	4.1	16.1
8	8	NEC Electr onics	6,438	2.9	5,648	3.2	14.0
9	10	Philips Semi conduc tors	5,689	2.6	4,512	2.5	26.1
10	9	Free scale	5,519	2.5	4,631	2.6	19.2
		Others	110,305	50.2	89,304	50.1	23.5
		Total	21,9880	100.0	178,242	100.0	23.4

Notes: In some cases, Gartner's vendor estimates differ from those publicly reported by a company, because it is Gartner's policy to include or exclude revenue associated with acquired or divested companies or business units for the whole calendar year, regardless of when the acquisition or divestment took place.
Source: Gartner Dataquest (March 2005)

Additional information is available in the Gartner Dataquest Alert Final Semiconductor Share Rankings Reflect Memory Market Strength in 2004. This Alert provides final rankings for the top 20 companies worldwide as well as the top 10 vendors in the Americas, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and Japan. The report is available on Gartner?s Web site.

This research is produced by Gartner's Semiconductors Worldwide group. This research group combines memory, microcomponents, logic, ASIC, analog, discrete device, RF and optical segments into a complete industry picture. Products, suppliers, startups, technologies, regional consumption, applications and emerging technologies are all covered in this broad program. To subscribe to this service, please contact Pia Rieppo at 408-468-8710 or at pia.rieppo@gartner.com. More information on Gartner's semiconductor research can be found in the Gartner Semiconductor Focus Area at http://www.gartner.com/semiconductors.

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