Throughout 2021, MediaTek increased its output of networking ICs to meet strong market demand and to help offset falling sales of mobile SoCs in 4Q21. Figure 1 Nvidia is expected to post revenue growth of 54% in 2021. Nvidia was a pioneer in graphics processing units, or GPUs, that make video games more realistic. Since then, the company has expanded into artificial intelligence chips used in supercomputers, data centers, for drug development, weather and long-term climate change forecasting, and in driverless cars. Its chips are also widely used in Bitcoin mining applications. In 4Q21, a new growth driver emerged for its processors—the metaverse, an immersive, next-generation Internet platform. Qualcomm is the biggest maker of chips that run smartphones. IC Insights forecasts its 2021 IC sales will jump 51%.