The top ten IC design companies in the world saw a 4.1% year-on-year decrease in revenue in 2019, and are unlikely to return to growth in 2020

According to the latest statistics from TrendForce, in 2019, the revenues of the world's top three IC design companies: Broadcom, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA all showed an annual decline, and the global IC design output value was significantly affected.

Data shows that in 2019, Broadcom's revenue decreased by 7%, Qualcomm's by 11.3%, and Nvidia's by 9.3%. Looking at the revenue of the top ten IC design companies in the world in 2019, only AMD and Xilinx maintained revenue growth among American companies, with annual growth of 4% and 12.8% respectively. The three Taiwanese companies performed well in 2019, with MediaTek's annual growth of 1%, Novatek's annual growth of 15%, and Realtek's annual growth of 29.4%.

Looking ahead to 2020, TrendForce pointed out that although Sino-US relations seem to be easing, the Entity List policy has not yet been lifted, and the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic is bound to impact consumer demand for terminal products. If the Entity List policy continues to have an impact, Broadcom, a leading IC design company, may not see any improvement in its semiconductor revenue performance in the short term. Although Qualcomm is expected to return to Apple's mobile phone supply chain in 2020, the global epidemic cannot be effectively controlled, which is expected to impact Apple's mobile phone sales performance, and Qualcomm's chip revenue will be affected. Nvidia has also confirmed that it has been affected by the epidemic and has lowered its financial forecast for the first quarter of 2021. With the performance in the first half of 2020 already affected, it may not be optimistic that the overall industry will return to growth in 2020.