With foundries in advanced process of increasingly fierce competition , and the advent of 4GLTE era , also contributed to IC design companies have introduced high-specification ( for example, eight-core , 64-bit) wafers, semiconductor giant to maintain the leader in the industry position , throwing money at research and development is clearly not hesitate . According to the latest report issued by the research coordinating body IC Insights , 2013 global semiconductor companies, Intel is still invested $ 11.611 billion in R & D spending ranks highest . Notably , TSMC ( 2330 ) places $ 1.623 billion in R & D spending , ranking sixth .IC Insights pointed out that , compared to other industries , semiconductor companies to keep pace with the rapid technological evolution of the industry , through intensive capital expenditure to consolidate its leadership position in the trend more apparent. And in 2013 , the semiconductor industry 's R & D spending , Intel is still the annual growth of 5% , $ 11.611 billion came foremost , and hit record highs . Up front investment and R & D spending 10 semiconductor companies, Intel accounted for 37% of the amount of more share, Intel this one company alone , R & D spending accounted for 19% of the global semiconductor industry. According IC Insights statistics, in 2013 the global semiconductor industry, the first two of R & D spending is Qualcomm (Qualcomm), annual growth of 28% to $ 3.395 billion , only a third of Intel . 2013 ranked No. 3 is Samsung, R & D spending was increased only slightly by 2% to $ 2.82 billion . Notably , Samsung R & D spending since 2011 , has been maintained at the level of only $ 2.8 billion from top to bottom .IC Insights further analysis , the top two semiconductor industry ─ IDM giants Intel and Samsung, although in recent years, continued to expand in the advanced process of production , but in the R & D expenditures are different tune. Samsung has been able to drive down R & D spending , mainly thanks to the participation of IBM 's Common Platform Alliance. According to IC Insights, 2013 for semiconductor research and development expenditures from 4 to 10 , respectively, are Broadcom (Broadcom) of $ 2.486 billion ( annual growth of 7% ) , STMicroelectronics (STMicroelectronics) of $ 1.816 billion ( annual reduction of 25% ) , TSMC $ 1.623 billion ( annual growth of 18% ) , Toshiba (Toshiba) for $ 1.56 billion ( annual decrease of 9% ) , Texas Instruments (TI) of $ 1.522 billion ( annual reduction of 19% ) , Micron (Micron) of $ 1.487 billion ( annual growth of 64% ) , Renesas of $ 1.343 billion ( annual reduction of 29%).IC Insights pointed out that with the semiconductor industry to Fabless and Fab-lite rules diversion , IDM outsourcing vendors continue to expand the single release , TSMC will also benefit from this trend . IC Insights said TSMC R & D spending in 2010 was significantly increased by 44% , while the year is also the first pure foundry semiconductor R & D spending among the top 10 .