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.

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

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