The world semiconductor market was $208 billion in third-quarter 2025, according to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics. This marks the first time the market has been above $200 billion. 3Q 2025 was up 15.8% from 2Q 2025, the highest quarter-to-quarter growth since 19.9% in 2Q 2009. 3Q 2025 was up 25.1% from 3Q 2024, the highest growth versus a year earlier since 28.3% in 4Q 2021.
The table below shows the top twenty semiconductor companies by revenue. The list includes companies which sell devices on the open market. This excludes #foundry companies such as TSMC and companies which only produce #semiconductors for their internal use such as Apple. The revenue in most cases is for the total company, which may include some non-semiconductor revenue. In cases where revenue is broken out separately, #semiconductor revenue is used.
#AI continues to drive semiconductor market growth with all the #memory companies citing AI memory for #datacenters as the strongest growth area. NVIDIA and AMD also attributed most of their growth to AI. Qualcomm and MediaTek are seeing growth in #mobile handsets. The #automotive segment is seen as generally flat, with some companies adjusting inventories.
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