Top Ten Chip Companies For R&D Spending

Thanks to the FT for this list which has been extracted from its list of the top R&D spenders. Two companies, IBM and Toshiba, are much more than just chip companies of course, but the largest share of their R&D budget goes to chip R&D. It interested me to see by how much TSMC lagged the top ten list. TSMC's R&D budget is only $450m. Here they are then, the world's largest spenders on chip R&D: