Technology & Business1990–2024
Chipmakers by Revenue
Thirty-five years of chip supremacy: Japan's DRAM giants give way to Intel's quarter-century x86 reign, memory supercycles briefly crown Samsung, and TSMC's foundry model rewires the industry. Then AI hits, and NVIDIA rockets past everyone with roughly $115B of revenue in 2024.
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Source: Gartner / IC Insights rankings Figures blend Gartner/IC Insights (Dataquest) semiconductor revenue rankings with company annual reports; TSMC counted at foundry revenue. Updated 2026-07-07
The race in numbers
6lead changes
34years covered
16contenders
Intellongest reign — 25 yrs at #1
Final standings · 2024
- 1NVIDIA$115.0B
- 2TSMC$88.1B
- 3Samsung$66.5B
- 4Intel$49.8B
- 5SK Hynix$42.8B