AMD was the fastest growing chipmaker in 2021, increasing its profits by 65%

We are closing 2021, a year that was very good for Tech companies, but one stands out from the others, I am talking about AMD’s growth that far exceeded its direct competition, with a 65% growth in its annual revenue. Reds are slated to post revenue of $ 16 billion for fiscal year 2021-2022, putting it on the list of semiconductor companies with a revenue of more than $ 10 billion for the first time, in 2020 the revenue was $ 9.7 billion.

Second place was taken by MediaTek, with a year-on-year growth rate of 60%. The Taiwanese chipmaker made $ 17.5 billion, in 2020 it made about $ 11 billion.

The other two big names are NVIDIA and Qualcomm., which is expected to register a growth of 57% and 51% year-on-year, respectively. Qualcomm, with annual revenue of $ 29 billion in 2021, ranked number 6 on the list of the world’s largest companies, while NVIDIA ranked seventh with revenues of $ 23 billion, displacing Broadcom at the top of the list. eighth place. AMD is the fastest growing chipmaker for the past two consecutive years ranking 11th, along with MediaTek and TI.

Samsung surpassed Intel as the world’s largest semiconductor company in 2021

Samsung had annual revenue of $ 83 billion, thanks to the memory and NAND market. The South Korean company registered a year-on-year growth of 30%, in 2020 it invoiced about $ 62 billion in 2020. Intel, once again, registered a negative growth of -1%, thus losing the first place in the graph. TSMC ranked second with 24% growth, bringing its revenue to $ 56.6 billion.