The world's ten biggest chip vendors ranked by 2025 semiconductor revenue, per Gartner's preliminary vendor ranking — led by NVIDIA at $125.7 billion.
NVIDIA was the largest semiconductor company in 2025, with $125.7 billion in semiconductor revenue, according to Gartner's preliminary ranking. Samsung Electronics was second at $72.5 billion and SK hynix third at $60.6 billion, ahead of Intel at $47.9 billion. The ranking uses Gartner's calendar-2025 vendor revenue estimates, published January 2026.
This ranks the ten largest semiconductor vendors by worldwide semiconductor revenue in calendar year 2025, using one source: Gartner's preliminary 2025 vendor ranking, published in January 2026. Gartner put the total market at $793.4 billion, up 21% on 2024. AI demand reshaped the top of the table. NVIDIA became the first vendor to pass $100 billion in semiconductor sales, SK hynix climbed to third on high-bandwidth memory for AI servers, and Intel slipped to fourth with a 6% share of the market.
NVIDIA led the market with $125.7 billion in 2025 semiconductor revenue per Gartner, up 63.9% on 2024 and the first time any vendor has passed $100 billion. Its data-center GPUs for AI drove the gain.
Samsung was second with $72.5 billion. Gartner reports its memory revenue rose 13% in 2025 while its non-memory semiconductor revenue fell 8%.
SK hynix rose from fourth to third with $60.6 billion, up 37.2% on 2024, which Gartner attributes to strong demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) in AI servers.
Intel fell from third to fourth with $47.9 billion, down 3.9% on 2024. Gartner notes its 6% market share is half what it held in 2021.
Micron climbed to fifth with $41.5 billion, up 50.2% on 2024, as memory prices and AI-related demand lifted its DRAM and NAND sales.
Qualcomm posted $37.0 billion in 2025 semiconductor revenue, up 12.3%, led by its Snapdragon smartphone processors and modems.
Broadcom's semiconductor revenue reached $34.3 billion, up 23.3%, from networking chips and custom AI accelerators. Its infrastructure software business is not counted here.
AMD generated $32.5 billion, up 34.6%, from its Ryzen and EPYC processors and Instinct data-center GPUs.
Gartner counts Apple's in-house chips (the A-series and M-series processors in its own devices) as semiconductor revenue: $24.6 billion in 2025, up 19.9%.
Taiwan's MediaTek rounds out the top ten with $18.5 billion, up 15.9%, from smartphone, smart-TV and connectivity chips.
| # | Name | headquarters | specialty | share_of_market_pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA | Santa Clara, California, USA | GPUs / AI accelerators | 15.8 |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics | Suwon, South Korea | Memory (DRAM, NAND) / logic | 9.1 |
| 3 | SK hynix | Icheon, South Korea | Memory (DRAM, HBM, NAND) | 7.6 |
| 4 | Intel | Santa Clara, California, USA | PC and server CPUs | 6 |
| 5 | Micron Technology | Boise, Idaho, USA | Memory (DRAM, NAND) | 5.2 |
| 6 | Qualcomm | San Diego, California, USA | Mobile SoCs / modems | 4.7 |
| 7 | Broadcom | Palo Alto, California, USA | Networking / custom AI chips | 4.3 |
| 8 | AMD | Santa Clara, California, USA | CPUs / GPUs | 4.1 |
| 9 | Apple | Cupertino, California, USA | In-house SoCs for Apple devices | 3.1 |
| 10 | MediaTek | Hsinchu, Taiwan | Mobile SoCs / consumer chips | 2.3 |
Vendors are ranked by calendar-year 2025 semiconductor revenue in US dollars, exactly as estimated in Gartner's preliminary results (press release of January 12, 2026, Table 1). Gartner's figures are vendor-level semiconductor revenue estimates on a calendar-year basis, so they differ from each company's reported total revenue (for example, NVIDIA's fiscal-year revenue and Broadcom's software business are not what is measured here). Pure-play contract foundries such as TSMC do not appear in Gartner's vendor ranking. Share of market is each vendor's 2025 revenue divided by Gartner's $793.4 billion total. Revenue is shown in billions, rounded to one decimal from Gartner's figures in millions. Gartner labels these results preliminary; final figures may be revised.
NVIDIA, with $125.7 billion in 2025 semiconductor revenue according to Gartner's preliminary ranking — 15.8% of the $793.4 billion market and well ahead of Samsung Electronics at $72.5 billion.
TSMC is a pure-play contract foundry: it manufactures chips that other companies design and sell. Gartner's vendor ranking measures revenue from selling semiconductors, so contract foundries are not ranked in it. This list follows Gartner's basis and does not add foundry revenue.
Gartner estimates semiconductor revenue for calendar 2025 on a consistent basis across vendors. Company-reported totals use their own fiscal years and include non-semiconductor items, so they do not match Gartner's figures.
Gartner's preliminary estimate is $793.4 billion, up 21% from 2024. The ten vendors on this list together account for about 62% of that total.
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