Dimitrios Kambouris Written by Sam Kovacs Introduction $1 Trillion dollars! There is always a certain ring to that number, don’t you agree? Nobody in the world is worth $1tn. Elon Musk is about a quarter of the way there, yet he remains nowhere close. There are, however, plenty of trillion-dollar companies, and even more trillion-dollar industries. By the end of the decade, there will be a new comer: semiconductors. According to McKinsey, by year 2030, the semiconductor industry, having grown at 6-8% per year between now and then, will be worth $1 trillion dollars.