[TrendForce: the revenue decline of the top 10 IC designers in 2022 widened to nearly 10% this year.] Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily reported on the 25th that with the rising risk of high inflation in the overall global economy and the correction of downstream inventories in the second half of 2022, IC designers are also more sensitive and real-time to market reversals than wafer industrialists. TrendForce Jibang Consulting said that in addition to the weak overall spending power of consumer terminals, there were also adverse factors such as the epidemic, corporate IT spending and slowing demand from cloud service providers, all of which had an impact on the total revenue performance of the top 10 IC designers in the fourth quarter of 2022, with a month-on-month decline of 9.2%, or about $33.96 billion. Due to the continuous revision of the inventory in the overall supply chain and the impact of the traditional consumer off-season, except for the consumption driven by the launch of new products and the replenishment of inventory in the supply chain, the market demand is still weak. It is expected that the top 10 IC design revenue in the first quarter of this year will continue to decline, but the month-on-month decline will be slightly convergent.