Samsung usurped Intel, becoming the world's largest chip maker

For years, Intel has been the dominant market for microprocessors but looking at the annual financial statements of two companies in 2017, their status has fallen into Samsung's hands.

Bloomberg points out this when comparing Intel's revenue for the year of $ 62.8 billion, while Samsung's semiconductor division generated revenue of $ 69 billion. However, such a comparison is not really accurate because Intel is still focusing on x86 processors (and still a leader away from other competitors) and Samsung's strength is memory production. and flash memory. But financially, Samsung is still considered larger.

Memory is an important factor

In addition to the financial issue, the memory sector that Samsung is focusing on is also of importance to future technologies rather than traditional Intel CPUs. Now it's hard to find Samsung's phones or tablets that don't use RAM. They also account for more than a third of the SSD hard drive market.

Trtong's most recent quarterly report, Samsung expects 'demand for memory products for cloud servers and chipsets on automated electronics and AI' will increase. So Samsung products are not only present on the devices we see today, it will probably be on many devices in the future as well.

For a broader view of Samsung's chip manufacturing industry, keep in mind that they are among the market-leading manufacturers of TVs, home appliances, phone screens, and of course cannot be forgotten. They are one of the most reputable phone companies.

Fourth quarter revenue growth was largely due to 'component production, with the largest contribution from memory production such as DRAM or NAND'. Memory prices have doubled in the past year as demand has increased and that has helped Samsung to have good business results this year.

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