Samsung Beaten Intel in the Global Chip Market

[ABS News Service/31.01.2022]

Amid the global semiconductor scarcity, Samsung took the first place from Intel in 2021 owing to its strong development momentum in each logic IC and reminiscence chip segments, based on a brand new report.

The South Korean giant took the lead with a robust DRAM and NAND flash market efficiency at the expense of Intel’s comparatively flattish outcomes.

Major smartphone SoC (system on chip) and GPU distributors additionally loved robust development in the year with over 50 per cent (on-year) income enhance, based on Counterpoint Research.

“In addition, we saw 27 per cent YoY revenue growth among the top 15 vendors, outperforming global semiconductor revenue growth and implying another year of centralised semiconductor industry, said William Li, research analyst.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has suggested that the chip shortage wouldn’t end until at least 2023.

Semiconductor industry also went through significant structural changes in 2021 after entity lists were announced by both China and the US.

According to Li, the overall 2021 semiconductor revenue rankings also varied from the previous year.

“Memory distributors continued to steer the business with SK Hynix and Micron taking the third and fourth positions, adopted by IC design distributors, together with Qualcomm and NVIDIA,” he informed.

The year saw 19 per cent YoY revenue growth with the largest contribution coming from the memory and IC design sectors.

“In normal, we consider provide constraints will doubtless persist earlier than H2 2022, although our checks counsel some quantity of part scarcity easing,” said Li.

High performance computing, metaverse (AR/VR/XR), 5G and automotive remain key semi content growth drivers for the industry.