Samsung Electronics was top semiconductor buyer in 2018: Gartner
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Samsung Electronics is not only the world's biggest seller of semiconductors,.... but it's also the biggest buyer ... because its IT products need non-memory chips from other suppliers.
Data show last year this one company bought almost a tenth of all the chips sold in the world.
Our Ko Roon-hee has this report.
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics was the world's biggest buyer of semiconductors last year... highlighting its presence in the demand side of the chip market as well.
According to global market research firm Gartner, Samsung purchased around 43-point-4 billion U.S. dollars worth of semiconductors in 2018.
The amount marks an increase of 7-point-5 percent from the previous year,... grabbing a 9-point-1 percent share of all global semiconductor sales.
Analysts attributed the rise to Samsung's status as one of the world's biggest producer of IT products... such as smartphones, which require many non-memory chip components.
Samsung needs to source its non-memory semiconductor parts from external suppliers,... because the firm is mainly focused on producing memory chips like DRAM.
Separate data provided by research firm TrendForce shows that Samsung grabbed the top spot in the smartphone market,... with a 18-point-6 percent of the global market share in the fourth quarter of 2018.
To maintain their dominance in smartphones while improving its self-sufficiency rate in components,... Samsung announced last month that it will focus on nurturing its non-memory chip business as part of the company's new growth engine.
Meanwhile, other companies on the list of top global semiconductor buyers include Silicon Valley giant Apple and Chinese tech firm Huawei.
The report pointed out that Huawei's purchase of chips soared more than 45 percent on-year in 2018.
In fact, four among the top 10 list were Chinese companies... signaling growing competition in the smartphone and electronics industry for the year 2019.
Ko Roon-hee, Arirang News.
Samsung Electronics is not only the world's biggest seller of semiconductors,.... but it's also the biggest buyer ... because its IT products need non-memory chips from other suppliers.
Data show last year this one company bought almost a tenth of all the chips sold in the world.
Our Ko Roon-hee has this report.
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics was the world's biggest buyer of semiconductors last year... highlighting its presence in the demand side of the chip market as well.
According to global market research firm Gartner, Samsung purchased around 43-point-4 billion U.S. dollars worth of semiconductors in 2018.
The amount marks an increase of 7-point-5 percent from the previous year,... grabbing a 9-point-1 percent share of all global semiconductor sales.
Analysts attributed the rise to Samsung's status as one of the world's biggest producer of IT products... such as smartphones, which require many non-memory chip components.
Samsung needs to source its non-memory semiconductor parts from external suppliers,... because the firm is mainly focused on producing memory chips like DRAM.
Separate data provided by research firm TrendForce shows that Samsung grabbed the top spot in the smartphone market,... with a 18-point-6 percent of the global market share in the fourth quarter of 2018.
To maintain their dominance in smartphones while improving its self-sufficiency rate in components,... Samsung announced last month that it will focus on nurturing its non-memory chip business as part of the company's new growth engine.
Meanwhile, other companies on the list of top global semiconductor buyers include Silicon Valley giant Apple and Chinese tech firm Huawei.
The report pointed out that Huawei's purchase of chips soared more than 45 percent on-year in 2018.
In fact, four among the top 10 list were Chinese companies... signaling growing competition in the smartphone and electronics industry for the year 2019.
Ko Roon-hee, Arirang News.