According to the data, in the first quarter, sales of Samsung Semiconductor reached US$18.607 billion, an increase of over 45% over the same period of last year, accounting for 16.1% of the total share of the global semiconductor market. This is a staggering figure and Intel’s market share is 13.6%, sales were $15.745 billion. However, Intel's growth rate was only 11.1% year-on-year. No Samsung's growth was rapid.
In the third and fourth positions were SK Hynix and Micron respectively, with sales of US$8.1 billion and US$7.4 billion, respectively. Qualcomm ranked sixth.
The fastest growth this year is the DRAM memory market, which has reached 37% growth, and Samsung is better because of its strength in this area. In addition, the development of the Internet of Things has enabled semiconductor products to grow at the same speed.
In addition, Nvidia, the leader in the AI field, improved from tenth to ninth. Infineon pushed into the tenth place, NXP (NXP) has dropped out of the top ten positions.
The data also shows that in 2018, global semiconductor industry sales will reach 463.4 billion U.S. dollars, and it is continuously creating new historical highs.