2021 Global MPU Chip Supplier Ranking Released: Intel No. 1, Apple No. 2, Huawei HiSilicon No. 9

A few days ago, IC Insights, a world-renowned semiconductor analysis agency, updated its global MPU report. The report shows that the top five MPU suppliers will expand their share of total sales to 86% in 2021. The new ranking shows,Intel, the longtime leader, slid by nearly half in total microprocessor sales.

Despite a difficult economic year this year, total microprocessor sales are expected to maintain double-digit percentage growth in 2022, rising nearly 12% to a record, driven by higher average selling prices (ASPs), according to the latest data from IC Insights of $114.8 billion. Second quarter semiconductor forecast. Total MPU sales will grow 13% in 2021 and climb 16% in 2020.

The epidemic has disrupted the global economy, but it has also boosted the demand for microprocessors. The application scenarios of PCs, smartphones and the Internet were once strong domestic demand.

IC Insights’ Q2 2022 update shows that total MPU shipments will grow by just 3% this year, following 6% and 5% growth in 2021 and 2020, respectively, pushing the number of units to an all-time high of nearly 2.5 million. IC Insights also said that MPU revenue in 2022 is expected to be boosted by 8% ASP growth, following last year’s 7% ASP growth and 10% growth in 2020.

The chart below shows that the ranking of the top five microprocessor vendors was unchanged in 2021 compared to 2020, and their total MPU revenue value shipped last year increased by 15% to $88.3 billion.

In 2021, the five largest microprocessor suppliers will have a combined market share of 86.0% of last year’s total global MPU sales of $102.7 billion, compared to 85.0% in 2020 and 82.1% in 2016. The next five largest MPU vendors—ranked 6th to 10th in IC Insights (Nvidia, Samsung, UNISOC, HiSilicon, and NXP)—collectively account for 4.3% of the 2021 total ( or $4.4 billion), compared to 5.0% in 2020.

Notably, IC Insights’ MPU rankings are based on computer CPUs, embedded microprocessors, and mobile phone APs, sales, but exclude AI/machine learning accelerators and discrete graphics processing units (GPUs). Many application-specific system-on-chip (SoC) designs with integrated CPU cores also do not count toward the MPU ranking.

No. 1 Intel and No. 4 AMD provide processors built on the x86 microarchitecture for traditional PCs with Windows operating system software, Google-backed Chromebooks, some tablets, and the vast majority of servers in use worldwide. Intel and AMD also sell x86 designs for embedded MPU applications. The rest of the top five MPU vendors sell mobile designs (mainly cell phone APs) and embedded System-on-Chip (SoC) microprocessors that include RISC architectures as well as other CPU design cores — which are licensed by ARM . The top four MPU suppliers are headquartered in the United States, and the fifth-ranked MediaTek is based in Taiwan.

While the combined market share of the top five vendors has steadily increased over the past 10 years, the revenue gap between longtime MPU leader Intel and the other four largest companies in the ranking continues to narrow. ICInsights estimates that Intel’s microprocessor revenue in 2021 will grow only 3% to $52.3 billion, accounting for 50.9% of the total MPU market share last year, compared with 55.7% in 2020 and 58.4% in 2016. Rival x86 processor supplier AMD’s MPU sales surge 56% to $9.2 billion in 2021, taking revenue from Intel and taking its microprocessor market share from 6.5% in 2020 and 3.3% in 2016 % improved to 8.9% last year The company has made a huge shift in CPUs for PCs and server computers over the past five years.