EEbeat

by Jim Harrison

The Databeans market research firm has 118 microcontroller suppliers on their recently updated list. The top 17 of those companies garner 78% of the overall market. Those companies, in order of market share, are:
Renesas Electronics 29%
Freescale Semiconductor 10%
Atmel 7.4%
Microchip Technology 6.7%
Infineon Technologies 6.6%
Texas Instruments 5.5%
Fujitsu 5.5%
NXP Semiconductors 4.8%
STMicroelectronics 4.4%
Samsung 3.4%
Synaptics
Cypress Semiconductor
Panasonic
Toshiba
Maxim Integrated Products
Sharp
Silicon Laboratories

They say the total market in 2011 was 14.8 B$. Databeans (www.databeans.net) has a brand new in-depth market report on MCUs available.