Gartner: Samsung top chip buyer last year, surpasses Apple

0. phoneArena posted on 23 Jan 2013, 13:45

Last year, Samsung spent a whopping $23.9 billion on chips, spending more on them than any other company, even the Korean manufacturer's top rival Apple; the previous year it had been Apple on top spending $18.8 billion on chips compared to the $18.6 billion spent by Samsung while fellow handset producer NBokia showed the biggest decline among top buyers...

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1. samsunggalaxylover posted on 23 Jan 2013, 14:07 9

samsung rules.

2. tech2 posted on 23 Jan 2013, 14:11 2

If Samsung are one of the biggest chip manufactuers how come they are the biggest buyer ? Cant they manufacture for themselves ?!

or the purchases were divisional through transfer pricing which is part of the buying figure given ?

4. g2a5b0e posted on 23 Jan 2013, 14:38 8

Samsung uses their own chips mostly in their flagship devices. They tend to buy chips for most of their other devices.

6. tech2 posted on 24 Jan 2013, 07:59 0

k. thanks

7. lukasound posted on 26 Jan 2013, 18:24 0

I don't think this is true. And even if it is, their flagships are the only bestsellers and the only ones with expensive chips.
I think Samsung treats their divisions seperately, so on paper it looks like "Samsung mobile" bought stuff from "Samsung displays", "Samsung chips" or whatever...
Also, if they mean "processors", they shouldn't have used the term "chips". If you consider a graphics unit, an audio processor or any other chip into the equation, these numbers are just a bunch of nonsense that shows nothing we can understand considering enourmous corelations...
Isn't a digital video processor in every Sony TV a chip? Same goes for watches, cameras, calculators..

3. schinnak posted on 23 Jan 2013, 14:18 0

just for kicks - now read the whole article once again by keeping potato chips in mind ;-)

5. shamataa posted on 23 Jan 2013, 15:06 3

Samsung is the boss this year.

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