According to the second quarter update of McLean report in 2022 to be released by IC insights, it is expected that the R & D expenditure of global semiconductor companies will increase by 9% to US $80.5 billion in 2022 and increase to US $108.6 billion with CAGR of 5.5% from 2022 to 2026. According to the report, in 2021, the R & D expenditure of global semiconductor companies increased by more than 13%, reaching a record US $71.4 billion. Intel continued to rank first with the highest R & D expenditure of US $15.2 billion (an increase of 12%), accounting for about 19% of the whole industry.
In contrast, Intel's R & D spending increased by only 1% in 2020 and decreased by 1% in 2019.
Samsung ranks second, with its spending increasing by 13% after increasing by 23% in 2020, which is expected to reach US $6.5 billion. The Korean memory giant accelerated its R & D spending on cutting-edge logic processes (5nm and below) to enhance its competition with TSMC. After increasing R & D expenditure by 26% in 2020, the latter increased R & D expenditure by 20% to about $4.5 billion in 2021.
In 2021, 21 semiconductor suppliers spent more than $1 billion on R & D, compared with 19 in 2020. The R & D expenditure of the top 10 companies increased by 18% to US $52.6 billion, accounting for about 65% of the total R & D expenditure of the whole industry. The upcoming second quarter data show that the R & D / sales ratio of the top 10 companies was 13.5% in 2021, compared with 14.5% in 2020. (checked by / indrich)