The rise of domestic mobile phones has already impacted Samsung's interests. As one fifth of the world's memory output areas, China has begun to oversize DRAM and Nand. Violet has even come up with DDR3 products, and SSDs have even become Intel's core products. Resources.
According to the Korean media Investor report, although analysts are optimistic about the Chinese memory industry's entry, Samsung does not have the feeling of 'backing'.
Kim Ki-nam, head of Samsung's chip business, said at the annual shareholders’ meeting that the chip industry’s technical threshold is higher than that of other industrial categories, and that investing a large amount of money in the short term cannot be overcome.
According to statistics, in 2017, Samsung’s chip-only business revenue exceeded US$100 billion, accounting for 45% of the company’s total revenue.
For the future, Kim Ki-nam emphasized that Samsung will spare no effort to maintain its leading position. Specific measures include the expansion of the second-generation 10nm DRAM factory, and the planned production of three generations of 10nm DRAM production lines and the sixth generation of NAND flash memory factories.
