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U.S. chip suppliers continue to
dominate R&D spending

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — Despite po-
litical and national security concerns
about U.S. domestic semiconductor
production, American companies con-
tinue to account for more than half of
the global chip industry’s total spend-
ing on R&D, IC Insights reports.

56% from the Americas
About 56% of worldwide semiconductor
industry R&D spending in 2021 was by
companies headquartered in the Americas
region — essentially all of them in the U.S.

A large chunk of that came from Intel
(19%, or $15.2 billion last year), says IC
Insights’ analysis of research and develop-
ment trends published in its most recent
quarterly update of the 2022 McClean Re-
port service.

The figure (next page) shows semicon-
ductor R&D expenditures by Asian-Pacific
companies.

These include wafer foundries, fabless chip
suppliers, and integrated device manu-
facturers (IDMs)—exceeded 29% of the
worldwide total in 2021, followed by those
based in Europe at about 8%, and Japan
at nearly 7% of industry spending.

Global share
Since 2011, the global share of semicon-
ductor R&D expenditures held by chip sup-
pliers based in the Americas grew slightly
from nearly 55% and Asia-Pacific compa-
nies (including China) climbed from 18%.

Worldwide, semiconductor companies
spent 13.1% of combined sales on R&D in
2021 ($80.5 billion) versus 15.5% ($50.8