Chip designers made bank in 2021 amid global shortage

2021 was a fabulous year for the largest global fabless chip designers, thanks to ongoing global chip shortage that caused silicon prices to spike, according to a new report from TrendForce. The world's 10 biggest fabless chip designers grew their collective revenue to $127.4 billion in 2021, a 48 percent increase over the …

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Selection bias much?

All the chip companies except Intel are fabless, so this is just saying that everyone except Intel made $$$$$.

In other news: cloud companies ie. Amazon/Goolge/Microsoft, made bank, so chips are irrelevant

[DS999]

Re: Selection bias much?

Plus they only count companies that sell their chips separately rather than as part of a product or service, so Apple and those cloud vendors (who are designing chips to go in their cloud servers) are not listed.

[FILE_ID.DIZ]

Re: Selection bias much?

All the chip companies except Intel are fabless, so this is just saying that everyone except Intel made $$$$$.

I mean, yes... if you neglect Intel, and forget: TSMC, Micron, Samsung, Global Foundries, Renesas, etcetera. then sure, what you wrote is accurate.

In other news: cloud companies ie. Amazon/Goolge/Microsoft, made bank, so chips are irrelevant

Without chips, they'd be impossible.