Global Semiconductor Industry Trends and 2025 Outlook: AI Boom, Advanced Nodes, and Geopolitics (Report: June 27th, 2025)
Global semiconductor revenue reached $626 billion in 2024, up 18.1% from 2023, with Gartner projecting about $705 billion in 2025. Data-center AI chip sales rose to $112 billion in 2024, up from $64.8 billion in 2023, making generative AI workloads the second-largest semiconductor market after smartphones. Memory revenue jumped about 72% in 2024 and accounted for roughly 25% of total market, with HBM revenues expected to grow 66% in 2025 to $19.8 billion. TSMC’s 2nm node (N2) is in pilot production with high-volume manufacturing planned for 2H 2025, aiming for about 50,000 wafer starts per month by end-2025, with Apple
