Fabless IC company sales forecast to surge 22% in 2020 while IDM IC sales increase by only 6%.
IC Insights will release its new 2020 McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry next month. A portion of the new report will examine the top-50 semiconductor sales leaders, the top-50 fabless IC companies, and the major semiconductor foundries in 2020.
There is a relatively close relationship between the annual market growth of the fabless IC suppliers and foundries. However, the sales growth of fabless IC companies versus IDM (integrated device manufacturers) IC suppliers has typically been very different (Figure 1).
Figure 1
Fabless/system IC company sales are forecast to more than double from 2010 to 2020 ($63.5 billion to $130.0 billion) whereas the total IDM IC sales are expected to be up only 30% over this same timeperiod, from $204.3 billion in 2010 to $265.7 billion in 2020.
