Reportedly, as per a recent research report, Samsung Electronics expanded its market share in the global semiconductor industry in the second quarter of the year. And by doing so, it’s secure a top place on the list.
Talking about Samsung’s chip revenue for the period of April-June that came in a record. According to this, it has been at a record quarterly high of $20.3 billion on the back of solid server demand. It is sharing 12.8 per cent of the global market which is $158.1 billion in total. All the facts are disclosed by the research firm Omdia.
Also, it has been found that Samsung’s Q2 share was slightly up. From 12.5 per cent as compared to the log of the previous quarter. And this has been claimed by the Yonhap news agency. Whereas talking about Intel, then in the second quarter its market share goes decreased. And the fall is of 9.4 per cent from 11.1 per cent as compared in the previous quarter.
Samsung surpassed Intel and acquired the tag of the world’s biggest chipmaker
And in terms of revenue then the chipmaker reported $14.8 billion in revenue, which is down 16.6 per cent on the quarter. In addition to this, in the year 2017, Samsung surpassed Intel and succeed in acquiring the tag of the world’s biggest chipmaker by revenue for the first time in its history. And it does not stop here, as it continuously maintained the spot for two years in a row.
While Intel overtook Samsung in 2019 and remained at the top place until 2020. And before that, it was circumvented by Samsung again last year.
Coming to the other big giants, where SK Hynix ranked No. 3 by securing a 6.8 per cent market share for the three months ending in June. The same has been followed by Qualcomm with 5.9 per cent, coming next to Micron with 5.2 per cent. While Broadcom with 4.2 per cent, Nvidia with 3.6 per cent and MediaTek with 3.3 per cent respectively.
