IC Insights Top Ten IC company rankings for H2 2003 contain three from Europe, three from Japan, two from the USA, one from Korea and one from Taiwan. The market researcher comments that this is the first time that there are more European than US companies in the list.

IC Insights Top Ten IC company rankings for H2 2003 contain three from Europe, three from Japan, two from the USA, one from Korea and one from Taiwan. The market researcher comments that this is the first time that there are more European than US companies in the list.

The new Japanese company Renesas (from Hitachi/Mitsubishi) made No.3 with sales of $4.09bn. No.2 was Samsung with $4.13bn and Intel No.1 with $12.21bn. The other US company, Texas Instruments, was No.4 with $3.79bn. Toshiba was No.5 with $3.66bn.

The European companies were in the bottom half of the table: STMicroelectronics at No.6 ($3.32bn), Infineon Technologies No.7 ($3.26bn) and Philips Semiconductors No.9 ($2.57bn). The remaining two places went to NEC No.8 ($3.04bn) and TSMC at No.10 ($2.57bn).

Motorola left the table for the first time since it built its first fab in 1959 with sales of $2.27bn giving it No.11 status.

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