Despite Samsung's solid growth in chip sales last year, it lagged significantly behind the long-term leader of the semiconductor market, Intel. According to Gartner's estimates, Samsung's semiconductor division generated over 56 billion dollars (roughly 1,2 trillion crowns) in sales, while the processor giant generated more than 70 billion dollars (approximately 1,5 billion CZK).
SK hynix, which sold chips for roughly $2020 billion in 25 and reported year-on-year growth of 13,3%, rounded out the top three chipmakers, with a market share of 5,6%. For completeness, Samsung posted 7,7% growth and held a 12,5% share, while Intel posted 3,7% growth and held a 15,6% share.
Micron Technology was fourth ($22 billion in revenue, 4,9% share), fifth was Qualcomm ($17,9 billion, 4%), sixth was Broadcom ($15,7 billion, 3,5%) , seventh Texas Instruments ($13 billion, 2,9%), eighth Mediatek ($11 billion, 2,4%), ninth KIOXIA ($10,2 billion, 2,3%) and the top ten is rounded off by Nvidia with sales of $10,1 billion and a share of 2,2%. The largest year-on-year growth was recorded by MediaTek (by 38,3%), on the other hand, Texas Instruments was the only manufacturer with a year-on-year decrease (by 2,2%). In 2020, the semiconductor market generated a total of almost 450 billion dollars (roughly 9,7 billion crowns) and grew by 7,3% year-on-year.
According to Gartner analysts, the market growth was fueled by a combination of relatively significant factors - strong demand for servers, solid sales of smartphones with support for 5G networks, and higher demand for processors, DRAM memory chips and NAND Flash memories.
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