Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 21% in 2025 - Market Research

 

Worldwide semiconductor revenue totalled USD 793 billion in 2025, an increase of 21% year-over-year (YoY), according to preliminary results by Gartner, a business and technology insights company.

“AI semiconductors — including processors, high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and networking components continued to drive unprecedented growth in the semiconductor market, accounting for nearly one-third of total sales in 2025,” said Rajeev Rajput, Sr Principal Analyst at Gartner. “This domination is set to rise as AI infrastructure spending is forecast to surpass $1.3 trillion in 2026.”

NVIDIA Strengthened its Lead While Intel Continued to Lose Share

Among the top 10 semiconductor vendors ranking, the positions of five vendors have changed from 2024 (see Table 1).NVIDIA extended its lead over Samsung by USD 53 billion in 2025. NVIDIA became the first vendor to cross USD 100 billion semiconductor sales, contributing to over 35% of industry growth in 2025.

Samsung Electronics retained the No 2 spot. Samsung’s USD 73 billion semiconductor revenue was driven by memory (up 13%), while non-memory revenue dropped 8% YoY.

SK Hynix moved into the No 3 position and totaled $61 billion revenue in 2025. This is an increase of 37% YoY, fuelled by strong demand for HBM in AI servers.Intel lost market share, ending the year at 6% market share, half of what it was in 2021.

Top 10 Semiconductor Vendors by Revenue, Worldwide, 2025 (Millions of U.S. Dollars)

2025 Rank		2024 Rank		Vendor		2025 Revenue		2025 Market Share (%)		2024 Revenue		2025-2024 Growth (%)
1		1		NVIDIA		125,703		15.8		76,692		63.9
2		2		Samsung Electronics		72,544		9.1		65,697		10.4
3		4		SK Hynix		60,640		7.6		44,186		37.2
4		3		Intel		47,883		6.0		49,804		-3.9
5		7		Micron Technology		41,487		5.2		27,619		50.2
6		5		Qualcomm		37,046		4.7		32,976		12.3
7		6		Broadcom		34,279		4.3		27,801		23.3
8		8		AMD		32,484		4.1		24,127		34.6
9		9		Apple		24,596		3.1		20,510		19.9
10		10		MediaTek		18,472		2.3		15,934		15.9
				Others (outside top 10)		298,315		37.6		270,536		10.3
				Total Market		793,449		100.0		655,882		21.0

Source -Gartner (January 2026)

The buildout of AI infrastructure is generating high demand for AI processors, HBM and networking chips. In 2025, HBM represented 23% of the DRAM market, surpassing USD 30 billion in sales while AI processors exceeded USD 200 billion in sales. AI semiconductors are set to represent over 50% of total semiconductor sales by 2029.

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