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Apple Now World's Largest Semiconductor Buyer

Posted by timothy on from the newton-would-be-so-proud dept.

Lucas123 writes "Apple has leaped two spots to become the world's largest consumer of semiconductor technology, including NAND flash, NOR flash and microprocessors. Apple spent $17.5 billion on semiconductors in 2010, an increase of 79.6% over 2009. Sixty-one percent of Apple's semiconductor budget in 2010 was spent on wireless products such as the iPhone and iPad, while second place HP spent 82% of its semiconductor budget on computer products like desktops, notebooks and servers."

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  1. Re:SAMSUNG by Karlt1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Meanwhile, Apple is in the middle of a giant lawsuit against Samsung for it's mobile phone division, which is starting to seriously make a run for crown of the Android market, and is eating away at Apple's business.

    Apple:

    1. Generates more revenue than any other company in the world selling cell phones (yes they generate more revenue than Nokia)

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20056289-248.html

    2. Has 50% of the worldwide profit in cell phones compared to 13% for all Android manufacturers combined:

    http://www.asymco.com/2011/05/16/iphone-share-of-phone-market-in-q1/

    3. The iOS app market is more than 17x bigger than Android's by revenue:

    http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/21/861-5-percent-growth-android-puny/

    Android from a business perspective isn't really doing that great.....