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Top 10 chip design houses’ Of the US-based IC design houses that
revenue declined in 2Q22 were in the top 10 group for 3Q22, Qual-
comm recorded a QoQ increase for the
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Global market sales of smartphone SoCs and 5G modem
intelligence firm TrendForce re- chips.
ports that the revenue generation
momentum of the global IC design Automotive electronics
industry slowed down in 3Q22. It also made gains in the automotive elec-
tronics market by expanding its collabora-
Conflicts and COVID tions with partners in the automotive in-
The main factors behind this develop- dustry.
ment were the Russia-Ukraine military
conflict, the recent COVID-19 lockdowns As a result, Qualcomm’s 3Q22 revenue
in China, the ongoing inflation, and cli- figures for mobile and automotive offer-
ents undergoing inventory corrections. ings reflected QoQ increases of 6.8% and
22.0% respectively.
The total revenue of the global top 10 IC
design houses came to $37.38 billion for The revenue growth of these two major
3Q22, showing a QoQ decline of 5.3%. product categories offset the marginal de-
cline in the revenue for RF front-end chips.
Qualcomm kept first place Qualcomm’s IC design revenue as a whole
Qualcomm remained first place in the climbed up by 5.6% QoQ to $9.90 billion
ranking of the global top 10 IC design for 3Q22. The company sat firmly at the
houses by revenue for 3Q22. top of the ranking.

Broadcom returned to second place Broadcom’s impressive result
by overtaking NVIDIA and AMD, who Broadcom had an impressive result for
slipped to third and fourth respectively the sales of its semiconductor solutions in
due to weakening demand for PCs and 3Q22. Thanks to the stable demand from
cryptocurrency mining machines. the high-end segment of the market for
networking de-
vices, its revenue
went up by 6.8%
QoQ to $6.94 bil-
lion.

Broadcom’s ac-
quisition of VM-
ware is currently
being reviewed
by the relevant
regulatory au-
thorities.

Once this deal
is completed,
Broadcom will
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