MARKET RESEARCH firm Isuppli said that falling memory sales significantly slowed growth in the semi market in 2007.
AMD took an inevitable hit in 2007 compared to 2006, while Nvidia rose, as did Intel, which remained in first place, followed by Samsung.
DRAM revenues fell by 19.1 per cent in Q4 compared to the earlier quarter, while NAND flash revenues fell by 3.9 per cent in the period.
Forecasts by the manufacturers had been ebullient, based on the previous year. Dale Ford, senior VP at Isuppli said: “This was a complete role reversal for memory semiconductors compared to 2006.” Sales of memory integrated circuits had helped prop up the growth of the overall semi market, he said.
“If memory were excluded from the revenue total, the semiconductor market would have grown by 2.4 per cent in the fourth quarter. However, due to the influence of the weak memory market, total semiconductor market revenues fell by 0.5 per cent in the fourth quarter,” he continued.
Nanya and Qimonda were particularly badly affected, with their memory IC revenues falling by 32.4 per cent and 26 per cent for the year.
Data courtesy of Isuppli, figures for revenues are in millions of dollars. ♦
| 2006 | 2007 | Firm |
Rev
06 |
Rev
07 |
%
change |
%
total |
| 1 | 1 | Intel |
31,542
|
33,995
|
7.8
|
12.6
|
| 2 | 2 | Samsung |
19,842
|
19,691
|
-0.8
|
7.3
|
| 3 | 3 | TI |
12,600
|
12,275
|
-2.6
|
4.6
|
| 4 | 4 | Toshiba |
10,141
|
12,186
|
20.2
|
4.5
|
| 5 | 5 | ST Micro |
9,854
|
10,000
|
1.5
|
3.7
|
| 7 | 6 | Hynix |
7,865
|
9,047
|
15
|
3.4
|
| 6 | 7 | Renesas |
7,900
|
8,001
|
1.3
|
3
|
| 14 | 8 | Sony |
5,129
|
7,974
|
55.5
|
3
|
| 15 | 9 | Infineon |
5,119
|
6,201
|
21.1
|
2.3
|
| 8 | 10 | AMD |
7,506
|
5,918
|
-21.2
|
2.2
|
| 9 | 11 | NXP |
5,707
|
5,746
|
0.7
|
2.1
|
| 11 | 12 | NEC |
5,601
|
5,742
|
2.5
|
2.1
|
| 16 | 13 | Qualcomm |
4,529
|
5,619
|
24.1
|
2.1
|
| 10 | 14 | Freescale |
5,616
|
5,264
|
-6.3
|
2
|
| 13 | 15 | Micron |
5,247
|
4,869
|
-7.2
|
1.8
|
| 12 | 16 | Qimonda |
5,413
|
4,005
|
-26
|
1.5
|
| 19 | 17 | Elpida |
3,527
|
3,838
|
8.8
|
1.4
|
| 17 | 18 | Matsushita |
4,022
|
3,800
|
-5.5
|
1.4
|
| 25 | 19 | Broadcom |
3,668
|
3,746
|
2.1
|
1.4
|
| 25 | 20 | Nvidia |
2,578
|
3,466
|
34.4
|
1.3
|
| 20 | 21 | Sharp |
3,341
|
3,401
|
1.8
|
1.3
|
| 21 | 22 | IBM |
3,172
|
2,977
|
-6.1
|
1.1
|
| 26 | 23 | Marvell |
2,550
|
2,777
|
8.9
|
1
|
| 23 | 24 | Analog |
2,603
|
2,707
|
4
|
1
|
| 22 | 25 | Rohm |
2,882
|
2,633
|
-8.6
|
1
|
|
82,401
|
83,027
|
0.8
|
30.9
|
|||
| Total Revenue |
260,355
|
268,905
|
3.3
|
100%
|
||
