SAN JOSE, USA: The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) has released the CYQ1 2008 version of its Global Semiconductor Financial Report.

This quarterly report includes detailed trend analysis on financial data for fabless, integrated device manufacturer (IDM), pure-play foundry, intellectual property, electronic design automation, design service and back-end sectors.

The key statistics outlined in the CYQ1 2008 report include:

* Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $67.3 billion in CYQ1 2008, rising only 0.2 percent quarter-over-quarter, but five percent year-over-year

* Fabless revenue totaled $13.4 billion, which grew 16 percent year-over-year and equated to 20 percent of the semiconductor sales total

* The top 10 fabless companies by first quarter revenue combined for $7.8 billion, or 58 percent of total fabless revenue.

1. Qualcomm – QCT Division: $1.6B
2. NVIDIA: $1.2B
3. Broadcom: $1.0B
4. SanDisk: $850.0M
5. Marvell Technology Group: $804.1M
6. LSI: $660.7M
7. MediaTek: $501.4M
8. Xilinx: $475.8M
9. Avago Technologies: $411.0M
10. Altera: $336.1M