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Samsung Surpasses Intel To Become the World's Largest Chipmaker (bloomberg.com)
Samsung Electronics just knocked Intel off its perch as the world's biggest chipmaker by revenue, a spot the U.S. company has held since 1992. From a report: On Tuesday, Samsung reported 2017 chip sales of $69 billion, blowing past Intel's $63 billion from last year. The switch underlines how Samsung has transformed itself from a maker of cheap televisions into a pervasive supplier of key components in smartphones and other modern computing devices. It's also a testament to the growth of memory chips, Samsung's main market.
Intel, whose processors are the heart of about 90 percent of the world's computers, didn't have a bad year. Sales grew 6 percent. Success in computers is no longer enough, though. Memory chips, a market Intel only recently got back into, are now crucial parts of smartphones, which easily outsell PCs these days. Memory chips are also finding their way into a range of new devices such as cars. One of the ironies of Samsungâ(TM)s success in memory is that itâ(TM)s a business Intel created in the 1960s.
Intel, whose processors are the heart of about 90 percent of the world's computers, didn't have a bad year. Sales grew 6 percent. Success in computers is no longer enough, though. Memory chips, a market Intel only recently got back into, are now crucial parts of smartphones, which easily outsell PCs these days. Memory chips are also finding their way into a range of new devices such as cars. One of the ironies of Samsungâ(TM)s success in memory is that itâ(TM)s a business Intel created in the 1960s.
Good to see Samsung exploding into the market!
It would be nice if the price for DDR4 memory would drop. I've been sitting on the fence about upgrading my gaming rig from an AMD AM3 to a AMD Ryzen (fast memory) or Intel 8th Gen (slow memory). The new AMD Ryzen 2 is rumored to require even faster memory.
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And a meltdown for Intel.
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Quick Google Search says the largest chip was produced by Pringles and is on display in Idaho. It weighs 5.4 oz (150g)
It never ceases to amaze me how low quality the fact checkers are on this website.
aren't PCs from a non consumer standpoint
Airplanes maybe?
Or could it be cultural exportation - read Hip Hop?
I kinda worry for my US of A.
Ohh...just remembered one - fomenting chaos/wars/instability in distant lands which results into lucrative deals for [American based] arms manufacturers.
because Intel has pissed off so many of their customers with their back doors and secret deals with the likes of Microsoft and others including government.
Yea yea the asian race to the bottom means a ton of products shipped and revenue. Profit is what matters at the end of the day. Intel is a shitty company but goddamn do they sell high margin chips.
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Article in Korean paper
From the Chrome translation of that page...
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
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When everyone replaces their bug-ridden Intel chips with new Intel chips that are ridden with as-of-yet unidentified bugs.
Way to go,, The unicode characters in your stoopid cut and paste didnt make it correctly.. U should check what you publish. Verry immature, lacking, and very telling of your lacking skills in this area..
Also, Where is the link to the story? That breaks from /. standards.
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Ban all Unicode submitters and build a firewall to stop them from taking our character spaces!
Three of the top five semiconductor equipment manufacturers (Applied Materials, LAM research, and KLA-Tencor) are American.
And the margins are a hell of a lot higher than on memory chips.
I remember working for a place that was buying the new 64K Intel RAM chips. We viewed them with reverence as they cost the company, in bulk, about $30 each. That's about $3,600 a megabyte. Current memory prices are around a penny a megabyte. So to survive Intel has had to cut memory prices by a factor of 360,000 !!! Don't know how they can make any money at those prices.
"Intel, whose processors are the heart of about 90 percent of the world's computers"
Clearly, the author is thinking that only Desktop PCs are "computers". When looking at the entire use of microprocessors and microcontrollers, less than 2% are used in PCs and servers. The vast majority are used in embedded applications. Yes, Intel DOES make processors for the embedded market, but they are hardly dominant players.
No link to any story, not even a tabloid mention. Obvious Apple cut and paste text.
This site is about as broken as the code it is based upon.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
He gets like this every full moon. He's totally unstable.
Eventually APK is going to murder-suicide and we'll all wonder why nobody helped him sooner.
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Is that not right, msmash?
"Intel, whose processors are the heart of about 90 percent of the world's computers..." So all those devices with ARM processors... aren't computers? I'm pretty sure Intel isn't even the most widely used CPU anymore. Everything except desktop PCs has an ARM based CPU now, including billions of embedded devices.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
if your portable freezes ala Spectre and Friends, and is a locksown arch, would be nice to use socketed cellphone hardware that unseat for hardware fixes; two wifi nic, RAID miniSD, et al.
I only picked a small handheld to fit in my shirt pocket behind my pens in their pocket protector. It feels great my Android Smartwatch is covering my cell's ass like a Magma 4U passive pci bus for more hardware expansion. nothing says awesome like GPIB and rs422 over a HAL bluetooth stereo link.
Since Android took majority in the OS base recently It's Samoid vs Wintel. Possibly Samroid if making a Preparation H joke. Andrung just doesn't roll off the tongue.
Everybody's talking Intel vs ARM, etc., but TFS clearly says Samsung's major market is not processors, but memory chips (which I assume includes various forms of flash). The market for these things is huge, yet they are essentially commodity components. The volume of proprietary IP in a single Intel processor is vast compared to what Samsung produces. Even Samsung's processors use technology licensed from ARM. I don't think Intel is quaking in its boots just yet. The idea that Korean chaebols are huge, supply the world with manufactured goods, and make a lotta money is not new.
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