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Overview of the Semiconductor Devices Industry 2023

By Yole Intelligence — Jul 2023

The trillion Dollar Semiconductor industry poised for a new cycle of growth fueled by breakthroughs in AI, quantum computing, 5G, and specialized applications.

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Market Growth and Global Demand Fuel the Semiconductor Device Industry

Semiconductor device revenue peaked in 2022 at $573B and is expected to retreat 7% to $534B in 2023. This industry plays a critical role in enabling technological advancements across various sectors, including Mobile & Consumer, Infrastructure, Automotive, Industrial, and more. Over the past few decades, the industry has experienced a sustained 6.4% CAGR, driven by increasing demand for Mobile & Consumer electronics, the rise of internet applications such as social media, and the rapid digitalization of most industries.

Integrated circuits are becoming smaller, more powerful, and capable of handling complex tasks, paving the way for new technology advancements such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and edge computing. This evolution presents both opportunities and challenges for companies in the industry, requiring them to invest massively in R&D and capital expenditure for new foundries to maintain significance in this fast-paced ecosystem.

Navigating the Global Supply Chains of the Semiconductor Industry

The semiconductor device industry relies heavily on global ecosystems, making supply chain resilience and risk mitigation crucial for sustained success. Recent disruptions and geopolitical tensions have highlighted the vulnerabilities of the semiconductor supply chain.

The semiconductor industry is geographically concentrated in a few places, primarily the US, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Europe, and mainland China. The dominance of US-based semiconductor device companies is historical; in the last five years, they have maintained a 53% market share. If we combine all types of semiconductor company business models, i.e., adding the open foundries, OSAT, equipment, and material companies, the market share of US companies drops to 41%; and if only the added value is considered, then the US share becomes 32%, and this number has been diminishing at a rate of 1 percentage point per year in the last five years.

US semiconductor companies have developed the fabless business model, which helped maintain their dominance but created huge vulnerabilities toward Taiwan.

Advancing Semiconductor Technologies are Shaping the Semiconductor Landscape

The technology trend is no longer single-threaded. At the center of competition is the More Moore (MM) node race in the manufacturing process, currently 7nm, 5nm, and 3nm, as well as future smaller nodes. These cutting-edge processes allow for higher transistor density, improved performance, and energy efficiency though they pose significant challenges in terms of development costs, yield rates, and manufacturing complexity. The industry is, therefore, actively exploring innovative solutions through More than Moore (MtM) approaches. NAND memory is headed full steam into 3D stacking, while Advanced Packaging has become vital for all leading players. Many innovations trends are driving the semiconductor industry; wide bandgap compound semiconductors, photonic integration, quantum computing, and neuromorphics will play their role in expanding the industry to serve a growing diversity of semiconductor device types.

Key Features

Global overview of the semiconductor device industry in numbers
Overview of the semiconductor device market trends
Overview of the semiconductor device technology trends

What’s new?

The “Status of the semiconductor device industry” is a new step in the 25 years history of the Yole Group semiconductor Market & Technology coverage.

Yole initially focused on emerging More than Moore technologies from 1998 to 2005.

From 2006 to 2014, the coverage expanded to include the full spectrum of More than Moore market & technologies.

Subsequently, the focus expanded again to encompass mainstream More Moore market & technologies from 2015 to the present.
Our objective is to cover the entirety of the semiconductor device industry in terms of strategic market and technology analysis in order to support the development of our clients.

Report objectives

Global overview of the Semiconductor device industry in numbers
- Context geopolitics / macroeconomics / environment
- Value chain evolution per geographical areas (US / EU / KR / TW / JP / CN)
- Market forecast Revenue ($B) / unit devices (Bu) / Average selling price ($) / Wafer production (kWpm 12’’eq.)
- Market players Revenue ($B) and ranking per business model
Overview of the semiconductor device market trends
- Mobile & Consumer / Infrastructure / Automotive / Industrial / Medical / Defense & Aerospace
- Application drivers
Overview of the semiconductor device technology trends
- Memory / Logic / Power & Analog / Opto & Sensors
- Technology drivers

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Overview of the Semiconductor Devices Industry 2023

The trillion Dollar Semiconductor industry poised for a new cycle of growth fueled by breakthroughs in AI, quantum computing, 5G, and specialized applications.