Andrew Norwood, vice president of research at Gartner, said: "Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory supplier, took the biggest share of the homeopportune success and replaced Intel as the world leader in semiconductors for the first time since 1992. However, this ranking may not For too long, Samsung's reliance on leading memory is not stable. With the gradual expansion of memory capacity in mainland China, memory prices will weaken in 2018, starting from NAND flash, DRAM prices will then decline in 2019 We expect Samsung will lose huge profits by then. "
Other memory makers, including SK Hynix and Micron Technology, also shipped brilliant transcripts of last year's operations with the ranking climbing simultaneously.