The market research firm, IC Insights estimates that the global semiconductor industry's R & D spending in 2012 grew 10% than last year , reaching a new record high of $ 53.4 billion. The agency predicts that global semiconductor sales growth is 3,298 one hundred million U.S. dollars in 2012, a growth of 3% compared to 3,214 billion dollars in 2011 ; This means that manufacturers R & D spending in 2012 accounted for 16.2% of the annual revenue. In addition, according to IC Insights, statistical data, in 2011, more than 12 semiconductor industry have $ 10 billion in R & D expenditures, which Intel is the largest households,in 2011 annual R & D expenditures was $ 8.35 billion, three times of the Samsung electronics ( Samsung Electronics) ranking after . From view ofregions, the sum of the R & D expenditure of the industry in the United States in 2011, occupying 57% of the overall semiconductor manufacturers R & D expenditures; followed by Japanese manufacturers, accounting for 17%. Followed by Europe (10%), Taiwan (8%), South Korea (7%) and China (1%). IC Insights found that R & D expenditures of semiconductor manufacturers are different from capital expenditures (capital spending), over the past 30 years with the increased complexity of chip manufacturing technology, design miniature increasingly high. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the proportion of R & D spending accounted for sales of semiconductor manufacturers, approximately only 7 to 8%, but the proportion increased to 10 to 12% in early 1990 ,to the early twenty-first century it has increased to 15% around 17.5% in 2008.