Technology industries, corporations and consumer electronics manufacturing companies world-wide use semiconductors—. As technology companies develop revolutionary electronic devices semiconductors continue to advance due to research and development by the semiconductor companies. These companies tend to be driven by the goal of producing smaller, affordable, faster and energy efficient semiconductors enhancing the possibility of manufacturing powerful, and affordable technology products.

below are the 6 best perfoming semicondutor companies interm of reasearch and development, manufacturing, licensing, revenue and developing.

1. TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY

The company manufactures and sell integrated circuits and semiconductors. Other services provided by this company include customer service, engineering services and account management.

Products manufactured are sold to customers in industries such as computing, communications and consumer discretionary ins countries such as Japan, China, South Korea, North America and Europe.

Top 10 shareholders of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

2. NVidia Corporation

Nvidia is a multinational technology company which operates under two segments.

• Graphics
• Compute and Networking

Under graphics, Nvidia offers GeForce Graphic Processing Units for PC’s and gaming consoles.

Upon its early success, the company secured a $200 million dollar deal in advance from Microsoft’s Xbox. It later on went to develop GPUs for consoles in likes of Sony’s PS3 and Nintendo.

The computing and networking segment offers data center platforms and systems for Artificial Intelligence, HPC and accelerated computing such as autonomous vehicle solutions and automotive autopilot cockpit.

Nvidia Corporation, Shareholders

Top Institutional Holders

3. ASML Holding.

Based in Netherlands, is a multinational technology company that develops, produces, markets and sells advanced semiconductor equipment such as lithography, metrology and inspection systems for logic and memory chipmakers.

Below are core technology systems manufactured by ASML Holding

• Extreme ultraviolet lithography systems
• Deep ultraviolet lithography systems This includes emersion and dry lithography solutions used in manufacturing various range of semiconductor nodes and technologies.
• Metrology and inspection systems Includes YieldStrar Optical metrology used to measure the quality of patterns on wafers
• HMI e-beam Used to identify and analyze individual chip defects.

The company operates in Netherlands Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Europe, Africa, Middle East and US

Top 10 shareholders of ASML

4. INTEL Corporation

The company designs, manufactures, and sells microprocessors and other essential technologies used in cloud, smart devices and IOT devices for retail, industrial and consumers uses globally.

Segments on which Intel Corporations operats.

• Data Center Group Focusses on markets such as cloud service providers, enterprise and government as well as communication service providers.

The goal is to develop workload-optimized platforms for computing, storage and network functionalities.

• Internet Of Things Group Focuses on customers such as retailers, health care providers, energy companies, automakers and governments.

This segment specializes in developing high-performance computing infrastructures for targeted verticals and embedded markets.

• Mobileye When it comes to the global leader in driving assistance and automation solutions, Mobileye reserves that spot due to its advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) products which server as the higher-level solutions in autonomy industry.

This technology entails computer vision, mapping, driving policy for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems as well as autonomous driving. The customer includes global OEM and Tier 1 automotive system integrators

• Non-volatile Memory Solutions Group Based on Intel OptaneTM and Intel3D NAND, intel’s NSG emerges as the technology leader in next-generation memory and storage products.

This technology has been deployed by enterprise and cloud-based data centers and also, in consumers desktops and laptops.

• Programmable Solutions Group The PSG segment offers programmable semiconductors, mainly FPFAs and structured ASIC in wide range of markets such as communications, data centers, industrial and military.

Top Intel Corporation Institutional Holders

5. QUALCOMM Incorporated

The company engages in development and commercialization of technologies and components used in mobile device and wireless infrastructures such as network equipment, broadband gateway equipment and other network interconnection devices.

Qualcomm’s business is divided into 3 segments viz.

• Qualcomm CDMA Technologies Specializes in wireless products and generates 60% of the company’s revenue.

• Qualcomm Technology Licensing The company develops software, semiconductor designs, intellectual property which is of course patented and developer tools. Since it does not manufacture physical products like computers and phones, 19% of its revenues is attained through licensing its core technologies.

• Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives Generates almost 1% of the company’s revenues through investing in other tech companies.

Top Qualcomm Incorporated Institutional Holders

6. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (AMD)

The company operates as a semiconductor company worldwide.

AMD operates in two segments which are

• Computing and Graphics
• Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom

Well known products include x86 microprocessors as accelerated processing units, chipsets, integrated graphics processing units, data centers and professional GPUs.

X86 microprocessors for desktop personal computers under the AMD Ryzen include:

• AMD Ryzen Pro
• Ryzen,
• Threadripper
• AMD A-Series
• AMD FX
• AMD Athlon
• AMD Athlon Pro
• AMD Pro A-Series

Top AMD, Inc Institutional holders