shady28
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Its not exactly news. Take Intels revenue for 2012. And then look at this chart:
Then you also avoid random speculation on what is what in the different groups.
Intels 2012 revenue was 53.34B$. MPU sales accounted for 36.89B$, meaning that 16.45B$ revenue comes from non MPU products.
Sort of like the Qualcomm number only represents ~30% of their $19.12B business.
Or the 2% that CPUs represent for Samsung (who made $254B in 2012).
I find it fascinating that the 'analysts' who came up with this list make no distinction between non-foundry entities like MediaTek and AMD when comparing to Intel, while completely leaving out TSMC, GloFlo, and TI.
And speaking of TI.. I find it difficult to believe their numbers here. TI is a ~13B company and it specializes in semiconductors.
From Wikipedia :
"TI is the third largest manufacturer of semiconductors worldwide[5] after Intel and Samsung, the second largest supplier of chips for cellular handsets after Qualcomm, and the largest producer of digital signal processors (DSPs) and analog semiconductors, among a wide range of other semiconductor products,[6] including calculators, microcontrollers and multi-core processors. "
I just wonder what their criteria was for filtering their numbers down like that.