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The Value of the Global Semiconductor Industry, in One Giant Chart

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2 weeks ago

January 6, 2025

Marcus Lu

Graphics/Design:

Sam Parker

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Infographic: The Value of the Global Semiconductor Industry

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This graphic visualizes the market capitalization of the entire global semiconductor industry as of Dec. 30, 2024. Data was accessed from Companiesmarketcap.com, and only covers publicly-traded companies.

Nvidia is currently the world’s most valuable semiconductor company, followed by Broadcom and TSMC.

Data and Key Takeaways

The numbers we used to create this graphic are listed in the table below. To maintain legibility, companies beyond the top 30 threshold were pooled into the “Other companies” groupings.

Company	Country	Market Cap
SMIC	🇨🇳 China	$50,911,804,625
Other Companies	🇨🇳 China	$24,570,462,661
Infineon	🇩🇪 Germany	$42,488,933,003
Other Companies	🇩🇪 Germany	$4,548,266,989
Tokyo Electron	🇯🇵 Japan	$71,140,883,193
Advantest	🇯🇵 Japan	$43,407,726,420
DISCO	🇯🇵 Japan	$29,605,804,510
Other Companies	🇯🇵 Japan	$43,484,856,288
ASML	🇳🇱 Netherlands	$274,789,000,000
NXP	🇳🇱 Netherlands	$52,729,745,408
ASM International	🇳🇱 Netherlands	$28,599,254,511
Samsung	🇰🇷 S. Korea	$240,363,000,000
SK Hynix	🇰🇷 S. Korea	$81,367,817,443
TSMC	🇹🇼 Taiwan	$1,039,330,000,000
MediaTek	🇹🇼 Taiwan	$68,825,849,501
Other Companies	🇹🇼 Taiwan	$110,809,561,484
NVIDIA	🇺🇸 U.S.	$3,367,130,000,000
Broadcom	🇺🇸 U.S.	$1,104,250,000,000
AMD	🇺🇸 U.S.	$198,697,000,000
QUALCOMM	🇺🇸 U.S.	$171,738,000,000
Texas Instruments	🇺🇸 U.S.	$171,460,000,000
Applied Materials	🇺🇸 U.S.	$133,151,000,000
Analog Devices	🇺🇸 U.S.	$105,493,000,000
Marvell Technology	🇺🇸 U.S.	$96,619,397,120
Micron	🇺🇸 U.S.	$95,049,842,688
Lam Research	🇺🇸 U.S.	$92,834,684,928
Intel	🇺🇸 U.S.	$85,483,659,264
KLA	🇺🇸 U.S.	$84,755,685,376
Synopsys	🇺🇸 U.S.	$75,239,292,928
Microchip	🇺🇸 U.S.	$30,674,010,112
Monolithic Power Systems	🇺🇸 U.S.	$29,446,047,744
ON Semiconductor	🇺🇸 U.S.	$27,021,076,480
GlobalFoundries	🇺🇸 U.S.	$23,874,695,168
Other Companies	🇺🇸 U.S.	$171,583,852,444
Arm	🇬🇧 UK	$132,331,000,000
Other Companies	🌎 Rest of World	$73,464,683,142

As of Dec. 30, 2024, American firms account for 71.5% of the industry’s global market cap, even though most advanced chips are not actually produced in the United States.

Instead, America’s leadership stems from its expertise in chip design, intellectual property (IP), and software tools. These areas account for much of the value chain’s profitability.

After the U.S., Taiwan holds the second largest share of market value, largely thanks to TSMC.

TSMC is the world’s leading semiconductor contract manufacturer, meaning it produces chips that have been designed by other companies (like Apple).

TSMC became a trillion-dollar company in late 2024 due to its dominance in manufacturing cutting-edge chips for AI, 5G, and EVs.

Semiconductors Gain Another Trillion-Dollar Company

Broadcom (Ticker: AVGO) ended 2024 with a bang after releasing a stellar earnings report in December, as well as announcing its latest partnership with Apple to produce an AI chip.

The company is working with other tech giants to design custom AI infrastructure, which could push its AI-related revenues to up to $90 billion a year by 2027 (up from $12 billion currently).

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