This month’s participants of the semiconductor products market will summarize not only the previous quarter, but also the entire year 2023, and Gartner experts have already shared preliminary data with the audience. In terms of revenue, Intel managed to overtake Samsung Electronics and become the market leader after a gap of two years. NVIDIA entered the top five players for the first time due to the explosion in artificial intelligence systems.

Overall, according to Gartner analysts, the volume of the semiconductor components market in monetary terms fell 11.1% last year to $533 billion, as it was affected by cyclicality during this period, largely due to the most difficult situation in the memory segment. in historical observation. Only 9 of the top 25 semiconductor product suppliers recorded revenue growth in 2023, with the other 10 showing double-digit percentage declines. At the same time, the revenue of the top 25 chip suppliers accounted for 74.4% of the total revenue of market participants, while compared to last year’s results, this rate decreased by 14.1%.

Since Samsung Electronics remains the largest memory manufacturer, it will be seriously affected by the low prices of its products in 2023. The South Korean company’s revenue fell 37.5% to $39.9 billion, and after two years of leadership, Samsung fell to second place, leaving Intel Corporation at the top of the rankings. The latter also reduced its revenue by 16.7% compared to last year, but its absolute value of $ 48.7 billion made it possible to overtake Samsung and take the lead in the ranking of the largest chip suppliers.

Qualcomm retained third place with revenue of $29 billion, but decreased by 16.6% compared to 2022. Instead, Broadcom, in fourth place, managed to increase its revenue by 7.2% to $25.6 billion. NVIDIA managed to move from twelfth to fifth place, entering the top five for the first time. Its revenue rose 56.4% to $24 billion last year, according to Gartner. Frankly, this became possible mainly due to the high demand for computer accelerators of this brand from developers of artificial intelligence systems.

Korea’s SK hynix fell from fourth to sixth place, reducing its revenue by 32.1% to $22.8 billion, while AMD retained seventh place despite its revenue falling 5.6% to $22.3 billion. In particular, STMicroelectronics company increased its revenue by 7.7% to $17.06 billion, rising from 11th to 8th place. Apple is also among the top 10 chip suppliers, but only ranked ninth, with revenue falling 5.8% to $17 billion last year. American Texas Instruments fell from 8th to 10th last year, with revenue down 12.2% decreased to 2019. 16.5 billion dollars.

In the first half of last year, demand for components decreased significantly in three key segments of the memory market – server, consumer and smartphones. As a result, for the full year, there was a 37% decline in revenues in the memory segment. In the DRAM memory market, annual revenue decreased by 38.5% to $48.4 billion, while in the NAND memory market, annual revenue decreased by 37.5% to $36.2 billion.

If you don’t take into account the memory market, other segments combined lost sales by 3% last year, as Gartner representatives explained. In this part of the market, price fluctuations have not been as severe as in the memory segment, and in some aspects there has been an overall increase in chip demand. These include the field of artificial intelligence, the automotive market, and the defense and aerospace sectors.