Worldwide Top 50 Semiconductor by Growth Rate in 2006

If you're working for semiconductor company, hope your company is listed here. The table shows the worldwide top 50 semiconductor sales leaders ranked by growth rate in 2006:

2006 Rank	Company	Headquarters	2005 Tot Semi	2006 Tot Semi	06/05 % Change
1	ProMOS	Taiwan	916	1,845	101%
2	Elpida	Japan	1,954	3,474	78%
3	Powerchip	Taiwan	1,603	2,829	76%
4	Qimonda	Europe	3,423	5,413	58%
5	Nanya	Taiwan	1,546	2,307	49%
6	AMD	U.S.	3,936	5,649	44%
7	Hynix	South Korea	5,599	8,009	43%
8	SanDisk**	U.S.	2,067	2,927	42%
9	Sony	Japan	4,223	5,804	37%
10	Broadcom**	U.S.	2,671	3,668	37%
11	Chartered*	Singapore	1,132	1,528	35%
12	Marvell**	U.S.	1,631	2,198	35%
13	Spansion	U.S.	2,003	2,579	29%
14	Qualcomm**	U.S.	3,457	4,422	28%
15	Nvidia**	U.S.	2,353	2,980	27%
16	SMIC*	China	1,183	1,455	23%
17	ON Semi	U.S.	1,261	1,532	21%
18	Maxim	U.S.	1,670	1,990	19%
19	TSMC*	Taiwan	8,217	9,748	19%
20	TI	U.S.	11,300	13,200	17%
21	Fairchild	U.S.	1,426	1,651	16%
22	Altera**	U.S.	1,124	1,286	14%
23	Vishay (incl. Siliconix)	U.S.	1,142	1,305	14%
24	Xilinx**	U.S.	1,645	1,872	14%
25	Mitsubishi	Japan	1,345	1,530	14%
26	IBM	U.S.	3,495	3,955	13%
27	UMC*	Taiwan	3,259	3,670	13%
28	MediaTek**	Taiwan	1,444	1,626	13%
29	Micron	U.S.	4,954	5,520	11%
30	ST	Europe	8,870	9,854	11%
31	Samsung	South Korea	17,838	19,670	10%
32	Fujitsu	Japan	3,500	3,858	10%
33	Analog Devices	U.S.	2,370	2,587	9%
34	Toshiba	Japan	9,045	9,782	8%
35	Freescale	U.S.	5,598	6,049	8%
36	Infineon	Europe	4,874	5,120	5%
37	National	U.S.	1,939	2,027	5%
38	Atmel	U.S.	1,676	1,751	4%
39	NXP (former Philips)	Europe	5,646	5,874	4%
40	NEC	Japan	5,593	5,685	2%
41	Rohm	Japan	2,813	2,850	1%
42	Sharp	Japan	3,430	3,471	1%
43	Sanyo	Japan	1,715	1,640	-4%
44	Renesas	Japan	8,266	7,900	-4%
45	Matsushita	Japan	4,097	3,835	-6%
46	Intel	U.S.	35,395	32,268	-9%
47	Oki	Japan	1,770	1,590	-10%
48	Agere**(Merging w/LSI)	U.S.	1,735	1,525	-12%
49	Avago**	U.S.	1,825	1,588	-13%
50	ATI** (Purch. By AMD)	Canada	1,810	1,350	-25%

*Foundry **Fabless
Source: IC Insights
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