Who are the biggest players in the Semiconductor industry?
The biggest “players” in the semiconductor industry are the equipment manufactures. Without them no production can be possible and technological progress will stop.
- Lam Research
- TEL
- Applied Materials
- ASML
- Teradyne
- KLA and others. The full list is below

On the product side the top 3 manufacturers are:
- Samsung
- Intel
- TSMC

However, it really depends on the segment and the country. In the United States, these are some of the ones with more than $5B market cap. I’m certainly leaving many of them out:
Microprocessors:
Intel
AMD
Graphics:
AMD
NVIDIA
Industrial:
TI
STM
Infineon
Comms:
Broadcom
Qualcomm
Memory:
Micron
Sandisk
Then there are fabs like TSMC etc. and manufacturing equipment like Applied Materials.