The global economic circumstances have resulted in some sometimes significant shifts in the industry. The ranking determined by the market researchers of IC insights was formally rocks, what further others but in turn further has washed some companies forward, backwards.

While Intel and Samsung unchallenged top 20 Act at the top, it was sometimes correctly color behind it. Because no fewer than 17 companies in the top 20 have changed their position. TSMC as one of the most famous and largest contract manufacturers in the world is broken up in the first quarter of 2009 by sluggish orders and bearing clearance of customers from number 4 to 10. Qualcomm, Sony and Toshiba also did well, however, some places 10 in the top, also AMD is climbed with Globalfoundries from the space of 12 to ninth, which will be according to the analysts but not at length.

While MediaTek and sharp the leap (back) into the top have managed 20, at the same time NXP and NVIDIA have flown through a crash from 15 to 21 or 20 to 22 of the aforementioned top-20 list.

Analysts expect that the situation will stabilize in the coming months and the original image in 2008 almost again could endure. This means, among other things, that TSMC will again become paragraph 3 of the semiconductor industry and NXP, as well as NVIDIA back 20 are expected in the top.