This Thursday, the world's leading market research firm Gartner released the global semiconductor market statistics report in 2017. The report shows that, In 2017, Samsung surpassed Intel for the first time to become the world's largest chip maker with a market share of 14.6%, the first time Intel has surpassed chip supremacy since 1992.
The report shows that in 2017 the global semiconductor revenue of 4197.7 billion US dollars, an increase of 22.2%. Memory chips contributed, accounting for more than 2/3 of the global semiconductor revenue growth, of which NAND flash memory prices increased 17%, DRAM memory chip prices increased 44%.
Ranked first in the semiconductor revenues last year, up to 61.215 billion U.S. dollars, up 52.6%, the market share of 14.6%; Last year, Intel reported revenue of $ 57.712 billion, an increase of 6.7% year-over-year and a market share of 13.8% .It is worth mentioning that Intel's data center processor revenue increased 6% and PC processor revenue increased only 1.9%.
SK hynix ranked third, last year's semiconductor revenue 26309000000 dollar, grow 79% compared to the same period, the share is 6.3% .Micron fourth, Qualcomm fifth, Broadcom sixth, Texas Instruments seventh, Toshiba eighth, western ninth, grace Pu (NXP) tenth.
Gartner said that Samsung may not be the first location for long-term, it relies mainly on memory chips.Anticipate memory chip prices in 2018 decline, when Samsung may lose significantly.
But in the future, who knows?
