Yesterday, we reported that Samsung's chip revenue surpassed that of Intel. According to actual revenue, Samsung Electronics recorded 53.15 trillion won (about 318.55 billion yuan) in January-September 2017, an increase of 46% over the same period of last year. During this period, Intel's sales of 45.7 billion US dollars (about 295.24 billion yuan), an increase of only 6%.
So from the overall pattern point of view, Samsung surmount Intel has been established, which has occupy this position for 25 years.
For Samsung beyond Intel to become the chip industry boss this matter, or cause the uproar in the industry, market research firm IC Insights given the latest report, in the first quarter of 2016, Intel's sales are also higher than the sales of Samsung 40 %, But in just one year, this lead has been erased.
From the most conservative estimates, Samsung's full year 2017 semiconductor sales will lead Intel at least 4.6 billion.
Samsung's surge in sales this year was mainly due to the astonishing rise in the average selling prices of DRAM and NAND flash memory, in addition to Samsung's factory has higher yield than its competitors, thanks to the company into production facilities and R & D A lot of money.Samsung to supply capacity for weapons to promote price negotiations, even large customers such as Apple can only meet the price increase.
For Samsung to surpass Intel, not that they plundered the latter's market share, but they ate more market share, as well as the hot foundry industry, and Intel just stuck to the recession PC market, but also not completely open Foundry business.
If the late Intel open foundry business, then the revenue will certainly be more than now, but still inferior to Samsung.
