According to the latest data from market research firm IHS Markit, Samsung has ranked first in the chip industry for the third consecutive quarter since the third quarter of last year.
In the first quarter, Samsung’s sales in the semiconductor industry was US$18.607 billion, a year-on-year increase of 45.4%, a year-on-year increase of 1.6%, and a market share of 16.1%.
This led Samsung Electronics to further expand its lead over Intel. In the quarter, Intel’s revenue was US$15.745 billion, a year-on-year increase of 11.1%, and market share was 13.6%. Before that, IC Insights, a market research organization, predicted that Samsung will be the first The quarter continues to maintain its position as the market leader.
SK hynix ranked third with US$8.1 billion in revenue, Micron Technology (61.39, 1.76, 2.95%) followed by US$7.4 billion, followed by Broadcom and Qualcomm (60.26, -0.38, -0.63%).
The strong demand for memory chips from the Internet of things and big data industry has contributed to Samsung’s performance. IC Insights expects that the DRAM memory market will grow by 37% this year. In this market, Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology collectively occupy 95.4% of market share.
Ironically, although Samsung was a big success in the memory chip market, it was Intel that created this business in the 1960s. Due to increasingly fierce competition from Japanese companies, Intel withdrew from the memory chip market in the early 1990s and then Recently re-entered. Last year, Intel's fastest growing business was storage chips, but it has a long way to go to catch Samsung.
Many years ago, Samsung Electronics obtained licenses from its Japanese counterparts and began to enter the memory chip market. Today, Samsung has also entered Intel's traditional site, not only producing its own mobile phone processor, but also founding chip giant Qualcomm. Qualcomm is working on PCs and servers. The chip market competes with Intel.