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IC Insights: Fabless account for a record 33% of the IC market in 2020

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April 30, 2021

IC Insights released the latest report on the 28th and described how the sales growth rates of fabless IC companies versus IDM (integrated device manufacturers) IC suppliers have historically been very different. Typically, the sales growth rate registered by the fabless IC suppliers is better than that displayed by the IDMs. In fact, the first year on record that IDM IC sales growth outpaced fabless IC company sales growth was 2010 when IDM IC sales grew 35% and fabless IC company sales grew 29%.

IC Insights: Fabless account for a record 33% of the IC market in 2020-SemiMedia

IC Insights pointed out that in the past two years, the difference between the growth of fabless IC suppliers and the growth of IDM IC suppliers has been particularly pronounced. In 2019, driven by a collapse in the memory market, IDM IC sales plunged by 20%. In contrast, fabless IC supplier sales declined only 1%. In 2020, fabless IC company sales surged by 24% while IDM sales increased by only 8%.

Even after including the booming 2017 and 2018 IDM sales increases of 31% and 16%, respectively, the 2010-2020 IDM CAGR was only 3%, one point less than the total IC market CAGR during this same timeperiod. In contrast, the average annual growth rate of IC sales from the fabless/system IC companies was 8%, double the total IC market CAGR during this same 10-year timeframe.

Given the typical disparity in the annual growth rates in favor of the fabless/system IC suppliers versus the IDMs, it comes as little surprise that, except in 2010, 2015, 2017, and 2018 fabless/system IC companies increased their share of the total IC market.

IC Insights: Fabless account for a record 33% of the IC market in 2020-SemiMedia

The report stated that in 2002, fabless/system IC company sales accounted for only 13% of the total IC market. With the memory market soaring in 2017 and 2018, a market in which the fabless companies have very little share, the fabless share of the total IC market shrank in both of those years. However, with the memory market registering significant weakness in 2019, this situation reversed itself, with the fabless share of the total IC market jumping 4.1 percentage points that year to 29.9%.

Led by Qualcomm’s $5.0 billion sales increase last year, fabless company IC sales surged 24% in 2020 and their share of worldwide IC sales set a new all-time record high of 32.8%!

Over the long-term, IC Insights believes that fabless/system IC suppliers, and the IC foundries that serve them, will continue to be a strong force in the total IC industry landscape with their percentage share of the total IC market expected to reach the mid-30s over the next five years.

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