According to thelatest data released by the market research IC Insights, Partly thanks tostrong growth of the memory market, the world's top 20 largest semiconductormanufacturers in the third quarter revenue growth over the previous quarter by19%, the growth rate compare with the second quarter's performance is almost.

In the latest ofthe world's top 20 largest semiconductor plants on the list, driven by stronggrowth in the memory supplier Toshiba and Hynix in the DRAM and NAND flashmemory market, the third quarter's revenue growth respectively over theprevious quarter 30% and 31%.

Despite the overallsemiconductor market revenue is forecast to decline by about 12% this year,including Samsung Electronics, Qualcomm and MediaTek in 2009 several companiessuch as annual performance (calendar year) are still expected to be showinggrowth, However, Qualcomm has previously announced that the company's overallsales decline of 7% ending on September 27 of the annual financial report.

IC Insights newlyreleased the world's top 20 largest semiconductor manufacturers list, based onthe first three quarters of 2009 ranking is based on cumulative sales. And ifjust look at the performance of the third quarter, Freescale Semiconductorwould be Elpida Memory squeezed out of the table, the latter just to reach thethreshold of one billion dollars in the third quarter revenue.