From The Register:
Gartner reports 25.1% growth off the back of supply chain pain
Semiconductor giants enjoyed soaring revenues in 2021 as global sales topped the half-trillion-dollar mark for the first time against a backdrop of squeezed supply chains.
Preliminary numbers by tech analyst Gartner put revenues at $583.5bn for 2021, a jump of 25.1 per cent on the previous year with demand and raw material costs pushing up average selling prices (ASPs).
There was also change at the top as Intel's crown was snatched back by Samsung. The US chipmaker's revenues were almost static, growing by a mere half a per cent (the lowest among the top 25 vendors) to $73.1bn. Sammy, on the other hand, leapt by 31.6 per cent to $75.95bn.
Perhaps also worrying for Chipzilla was the arrival of AMD in the top 10 (at 10th in 2021 up from 14th place in 2020). AMD scored an impressive 64.4 per cent in revenue growth to $15.89bn, the highest in Gartner's table....
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